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	NPR : Wanda Jackson, Rockabilly Queen
		Jackson is one of four rockabilly women featured in Welcome to the Club, a PBS documentary that debuts Monday, March 18.
		Jackson says her friends were all married and had homes, and seemed to be happy -- and she wasn't in one place long enough to meet anyone special.
		Flores is credited with "rediscovering" Jackson, who has a new generation of fans -- alternative country cowboys, underground hipsters and riot grrls.
	www.npr.org /programs/atc/features/2002/mar/jackson (631 words)

	Wanda Jackson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wanda Jackson (born October 20, 1937 in Maud, Oklahoma) was the first female Rock And Roll singer in the United States, releasing her debut record in 1956.
		Wanda Jackson was still in high school when country singer Hank Thompson heard her sing on an Oklahoma City radio show and asked her to record with his band.
		Jackson, plesantly surprised to discover that she and her songs were known by a generation of Rockabilly fans her grandchildrens' age, soon assembled her own band and returned to the clubs and festivals where she continues to perform.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wanda_Jackson (474 words)

	Wanda Jackson relives glory days with saucy set
		During her prime, Jackson's voice was a compelling instrument that combined girlish allure with formidable whoops and growls.
		Jackson was backed by a group of local musicians with whom she'd never worked before, which led to some shaky moments.
		Jackson peppered her performance with anecdotes from her 50 years as a recording artist, including a story of how the young Presley had once given her his ring, which she placed on a necklace and wore around her neck.
	www.suntimes.com /output/music/cst-ftr-wanda25.html (621 words)

	Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame 2000 Inductee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Wanda Lavonne Jackson was born October 20, 1937, in Maud, Oklahoma.
		In 1955, Wanda joined the "Ozark Jubilee," a TV show in Springfield, MO. While performing on the Jubilee from 1955-57, she toured with her father serving as her manager.
		It was Elvis who advised Wanda to consider changing her style to the new rock and roll - or rockabilly.
	www.oklahomamusichalloffame.com /wjackson.html (308 words)

	Black Cat : Show Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A true legend, Jackson had her first record deal with Decca in 1954, before she was even out of high school.
		Jackson not only made waves on the charts, but she also brought a sense of flair and glamour to the otherwise ultra-conservative music business of the mid-50s.
		Jackson remained a mainstay in the country music scene throughout the 60s and early 70s, despite her decision to stay in Oklahoma City instead of relocating to Nashville.
	www.blackcatdc.com /wanda.html (182 words)

	Rockzillaworld Wanda Jackson "Heart Trouble" By Steve Cooper
		In concert these days, Wanda likes to tell her back-up band, the Cadillac Angels, to "grab a D-chord and hang on," which, when you think of it, is rockabilly defined.
		The typical male reaction to Wanda in the 1950s was "damn!" The female reaction was "damn." She was a heartbreaker with a guitar, a beat, and tough girl voice, complete with patented growl.
		Wanda Jackson, alive and well and vital at the age of 65, is proof to the contrary.
	www.rockzilla.net /cooper26.html (947 words)

	VH1.com : Wanda Jackson : Biography
		Jackson was born in Oklahoma, but her father Tom -- himself a country singer who quit because of the Depression -- moved the family to California in 1941.
		When Jackson first toured in 1955 and 1956, she was placed on a bill with none other than Elvis Presley.
		Jackson toured regularly, was twice nominated for a Grammy, and was a big attraction in Las Vegas from the mid-'50s into the '70s.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/jackson_wanda/bio.jhtml (740 words)

	RAB Hall of Fame: Wanda Jackson
		Jackson, playing the local Peach's Bar and Gril as part of a tour to promote her first studio recording in 15 years, is long overdue for enshrinement.
		Jackson was born in Oklahoma, but her father Tom - himself a country singer who quit because of the Depression - moved the family to California in 1941.
		Jackson was unprepared for the reaction she received when she arrived in Japan in 1959 to tour in support of her hit song "Fujiyama Mama," but she'd seen a close friend struggle through a similar situation just a few years earlier.
	www.rockabillyhall.com /WandaJackson.html (3531 words)

	2005 NEA National Heritage Fellowships: WANDA JACKSON
		Oklahoma City, OK Wanda Jackson was born in Maud, Oklahoma, a small town near Oklahoma City.
		Her father played piano in bar bands, but Wanda's first foray into musical performance was in the church gospel choir.
		Jackson has the distinction of being inducted into both the Country Music and the Gospel Music Halls of Fame.
	arts.endow.gov /honors/heritage/Heritage05/Jackson.html (309 words)

	Wanda's Kate Jackson Web Page-Redbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		About a week later, bolstered by painkillers, Jackson was back on the set, vague about her absence and careful to guard her secret by scheduling radiation treatments before or after work.
		Jackson, who attended the University of Mississippi and Birmingham-Southern College and then studied at Manhattan's American Academy of Dramatic Arts, landed her first professional role in the Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows.
		Jackson appeared in several lackluster films and, despite her resolution not to tackle the grind of another hour-long series, agreed to star in Scarecrow and Mrs.
	www.katejackson.net /redbook.html (1749 words)

	Wanda Jackson
		Wanda Jackson was only halfway through high school when in 1954, country singer Hank Thompson heard her on an Oklahoma City radio show and asked her to record with his band the Brazo Valley Boys.
		Jackson says it was Presley, along with her father, who encouraged her to sing rockabilly.
		Jackson toured regularly, was twice nominated for a Grammy, and was a big attraction in Las Vegas from the mid-'50s into the '70s.
	www.history-of-rock.com /wanda_jackson.htm (875 words)

	Wanda Jackson finally getting her due
		Wanda Jackson, 62, is headlining at Bimbo's on Saturday night, her voice coming through as strong as it was when she belted out "Riot in Cell Block No. 9," "Let's Have a Party" and "Fujiyama Mama" ("You can talk bad about me, tell me that I'm mean, but I'll blow your head off with nitro-gly-cerene").
		Jackson learned to play the guitar and belt out country classics at the knee of her father, Tom, who moved the family from Maud, Okla., to California during World War II, taking a job as a barber and playing for weekend dances to make ends meet.
		Jackson was about to take the stage in an outfit her mother had sewn, a dress with rhinestones and silk fringe and spaghetti straps, when Ernest Tubb said, "You can't go on the stage of the Opry like that.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/2000/06/06/STYLE6297.dtl (1498 words)

	Wanda Jackson Remembers Elvis: Elvis Presley : Rolling Stone
		Jackson was the first to bring a woman's intuition into the boys' club of early rock and roll, and she did it on Elvis' urging.
		Wanda's father Tom, a onetime barber who quit his job to accompany his only daughter on the road, would serve as her manager until she married Wendell Goodman, still her husband and manager today, in 1961.
		Jackson claims she was actually inspired by a subsequent version by Larry and Lorrie Collins, the Collins Kids.
	www.rollingstone.com /artists/elvispresley/articles/story/8939939/wanda_jackson_remembers_elvis (917 words)

	Wanda Jackson Knows About Living And She Has the Lines to Prove It (washingtonpost.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At 65, Wanda Jackson has more honky-tonking under her sequined belt than any woman alive, and on her first studio album in nearly two decades, she and some well-known acolytes celebrate her years with grit, harmony and plenty of her trademark growls.
		Jackson began in the early 1950s in her native Oklahoma, where, as a 12-year-old, she had a regular spot on a local radio station.
		Jackson was a little saucier than contemporaries like Kitty Wells, and she played with a mixed-race band at a time when that sort of thing wasn't done.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A27171-2003Oct14¬Found=true (716 words)

	Wanda Jackson Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Wanda was on the final ballot for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 and will give it another run in 2005.
		WANDA AND WENDELL GOODMAN (her Husband and Manager) became Christians in 1971 and for several years in America only appeared in Churches and Church Sponsored Events.
		WANDA was amazed at all the new Rock-A-Billy fans that knew her and her songs.
	www.wandajackson.com /pages/biography.html (515 words)

	he Rock & Roll Eruption of Wanda Jackson by Mike Walsh
		Wanda instinctively knew that sex was the underlying subject of rock and roll.
		Wanda and Wendell found Jesus in the early 1970s, and she retreated further from her crazed rock persona.
		The vivacious Jackson is as fiery as ever on this collection of new songs which reflect her rockabilly, country and gospel roots.
	www.missioncreep.com /mw/jackson.html (2594 words)

	Twangin'! Interview: Wanda Jackson
		Jackson: Well, the European ones, they have some idea of what they want, such as this Denmark album, then I also did "Blue Yodel #6" and some of their original things they'd send me I picked out from those.
		And the top five, on Wanda Jackson Day, they ride in the parade in convertibles and they are on the show and we have a new set of judges, plus the audience applause counts.
		Highway 59 is now "Wanda Jackson Boulevard." And because of [improvements in crime and fire fighting made posssible by the benefit shows] the insurance on the homes and things has come down.
	www.steamiron.com /twangin/int-jackson.html (1872 words)

	Music \| Born again
		It was a Scandinavian promoter who lured Jackson back to country and rockabilly in 1984, 13 years after she and her husband had become born-again Christians and she had started to concentrate on the commercial backwater of gospel recordings.
		Jackson was signed to her first record deal, while she was still in high school, at the urging of then country mega-star Hank Thompson, who like her lived in Oklahoma City.
		Jackson’s clear and powerful voice has gotten a little rougher and less assured, but little else has changed.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/other_stories/documents/03258011.asp (705 words)

	Bloodshot Records: + Bloodshot Records Compilations - Hard Headed Woman: A Celebration of Wanda Jackson
		Known to many as the Queen of Rockabilly, Wanda Jackson is a maverick performer whose influence has reached far beyond the genre and cast a long shadow on the history of music--both sonically and in her performance style: She is one of Rock and Roll's original bad-asses.
		Wanda helped stake out a direct route from the feral origins of rock to the punks, riot grrrls and psychobilly boundary-busters 50 years later.
		Wanda's mighty ways with a song enable her to lay claim to the material she performs, be it country, blues, rock and roll, gospel, honky tonk, rockabilly or swing.
	www.bloodshotrecords.com /album/bloodshotrecordscompilations/135 (665 words)

	Oklahoma Jubilee Presents Wanda Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Wanda has been entertaining her fans throughout the United States, Canada and around the world since her early teens.
		In the early years, Wanda worked with another young entertainer that was just getting started by the name of Elvis Presley who encouraged her to try her hand at rock-and-roll.
		Wanda had always been Rosie's hero, and she asked Wanda to do a couple of promo dates with her on the west coast to promote her new C.D. The tour was so well received that it ended up being a five week tour from California To New York and from Toronto to San Antonio.
	www.oklahomajubilee.com /wjackson.htm (698 words)

	Amazon.com: Heart Trouble: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Jackson's first studio recording in 15 years features a duet with Elvis Costello on "Crying Time," a couple of tunes, including an update of her 1960 hit "Funnel of Love," with the Cramps backing her and, most effectively, the guitar work of Dave Alvin spicing up several tracks.
		As was the case in the 1950's, Wanda delivers her own songs and those written by others in a distinctive and magnificent style.
		Wanda Jackson is the Queen of Rockabilly; She started in country music when she was 16, and moved her way up to the top in a male dominated industry, eventually going on tour a year later with Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley (whom she later dated for a spell).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000CC864?v=glance (1655 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Wanda Jackson
		In the mid-1950s, at the dawn of the rock 'n' roll era, she became one of the fledgling genre's first female stars, an energetic 18-year-old rockabilly queen who dated Elvis, made frequent stabs at the Top 40 and tore through the music industry like a Midwestern tornado.
		Jackson was just 16 when country star Hank Thompson took her under his wing after hearing her on an Oklahoma radio station.
		Wanda Jackson performs on Friday, Jan. 28, at the 19 Broadway Nightclub in Fairfax.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/01.26.05/jackson-0504.html (721 words)

	Wanda Jackson - The First Lady of Rockabilly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Wanda will be hosting another online chat on the day before the new cd release date.
		Wanda's CD Release Show will be held at Amoeba Records in Hollywood on Feb. 1st.
		Wanda's new cd is available right here on WandaJackson.com right now and available in-stores across the country starting January 31st.
	www.wandajackson.com /main.html (186 words)

	Music Preview: Wanda Jackson / First Lady of Rockabilly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		When Elvis Costello was asked to sing on Wanda Jackson's first U.S. release of new material in more than 20 years, he said he'd be happy to do it but on one condition.
		So Jackson wrote a number of her own, from raucous rockabilly classics ("Mean Mean Man," "Rock Your Baby," "Baby Loves Him") to mellower fare such as "Sinful Heart," the "Rock Your Baby" flip side.
		Jackson turned her back on rock 'n' roll, on "Fujiyama Mama" and "Let's Have a Party," in '71, when she and her husband were, as she says, born again.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04114/304839.stm (2180 words)

	Wanda Jackson sings Elvis on new record (phillyBurbs.com) \| Music
		And as Jackson continued to perform country songs, Elvis saw her true potential urged her to try her hand at the frenzied sounds of rock and roll.
		Although Wanda Jackson's Elvis tribute album won't be released until early next year, she'll be touring with select dates in Toronto, Ohio and Texas with a special stop in Washington D.C. this September.
		Jackson is both the first female country and rockabilly singer to receive the award, which recognizes artists who have contributed to the heritage of American arts.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/81-07152005-514890.html (793 words)

	Wanda Jackson
		A tour featuring Rosie, Wanda and an ace Rockabilly band crossed the country late last year, and the crowds were dazzled by Rosie's fiery lead guitar and of course, by Wanda...still beautiful, still full of style and grace and still rocking down the house and having a great time to boot.
		Wanda: And Tanya Tucker, she said that Elvis and I, both, were inspirations to her life.
		Wanda: The young people at the shows are all singing them right along with me, so I know that they have the records, they're bringing 'em out for me to sign.
	www.roctober.com /roctober/greatness/wanda.html (3865 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| Fujiyama Mama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Wanda Jackson, the queen of rockabilly, erupted last weekend before a small crowd of reverent Denver fans.
		Jackson, who was discovered in Oklahoma City by honky-tonker Hank Thompson, has always been a great country singer, but it's her rock numbers that endure, even if they didn't sell particularly well back in the 1950s.
		By the time Jackson professed her devotion to Jesus ("My life changed in 1971, when Jesus came into my life") as an introduction to Hank Williams' "I Saw the Light," the crowd had begun to thin.
	www.salon.com /ent/log/1999/07/20/wanda (515 words)

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