Wanda Jackson - A Woman Lives For Love '1970

Tracks list

Tracklist:

1. A Woman Lives For Love (02:48)
2. It's Such A Pretty World Today (02:15)
3. Stop The World (02:25)
4. The Dirt Behind My Years (02:36)
5. Walk Through This World With Me (02:25)
6. Stand By Your Man (02:40)
7. You're The Only World I Know (03:05)
8. One Minute Past Eternity (02:31)
9. Let Trouble Be You (02:19)
10. I'd Fight The World (02:22)


 moreWanda Jackson was born in Maud, Oklahoma on October 20, 1937. Her father
Tom -- himself a country singer who quit when the Depression derailed his career
-- moved the family to California in 1941. He bought Wanda her first guitar two
years later, gave her lessons, and encouraged her to play piano as well. In
addition, Tom took her to see such acts as Tex Williams, Spade Cooley, and Bob
Wills, which left a lasting impression on her young mind. Tom moved the family
back to Oklahoma City when his daughter was 12 years old. In 1952, she won a
local talent contest and was given a 15-minute daily show on KLPR. The program,
soon upped to 30 minutes, lasted throughout Jackson's teenage years. She 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 Brazos Valley Boys. Jackson recorded several songs with the combo, including
"You Can't Have My Love," a duet with Thompson's bandleader, Billy Gray. The
song, on the Decca label, became a national hit, and Jackson's career was off
and running. She had wanted to sign with Capitol, Thompson's label, but was
turned down, so she signed with Decca instead.

Jackson insisted on finishing high school before hitting the road, and when she
did, her father came with her. Her mother sewed and helped design her stage
outfits, and she would later say, "I was the first one to put some glamour in
the country music -- fringe dresses, high heels, long earrings." When Jackson
began touring in earnest in 1955 and 1956, she was placed on a bill with Elvis
Presley, and the two hit it off almost immediately. Jackson said it was Presley,
along with her father, who encouraged her to sing rockabilly; she and Elvis also
dated for a while, and it's said that he asked her to marry him, but she turned
him down.

In 1956, Jackson finally signed with Capitol, a relationship that lasted until
the early '70s. Her recording career bounced back and forth between country and
rockabilly; she did this by often putting one song in each style on either side
of a single. Jackson cut the rockabilly hit "Fujiyama Mama" in 1958, which
became a major success in Japan. Her version of "Let's Have a Party," which
Elvis had cut earlier, was a U.S. Top 40 pop hit for her in 1960, after which
she began calling her band the Party Timers. A year later, she was back in the
country Top Ten with "Right or Wrong" and "In the Middle of a Heartache." In
1965, she topped the German charts with "Santa Domingo," sung in German. In
1966, she hit the U.S. Top 20 with "The Box It Came In" and "Tears Will Be the
Chaser for Your Wine." Her popularity continued through the end of the decade.

Jackson toured regularly, was twice nominated for a Grammy, and was a major
attraction in Las Vegas from the mid-'50s into the '70s. She married IBM
programmer Wendell Goodman in 1961, and instead of quitting the business -- as
many female singers had done at the time -- Goodman gave up his job in order to
manage his wife's career. He also packaged her syndicated TV show, Music
Village. In 1971, Jackson and her husband became Christians, which she says
guided their marriage through a rough patch. She released her first gospel
album, 1972's Praise the Lord, on Capitol before shifting to the
Christian-oriented Myrrh label for three more spiritual albums. In 1977, she
switched labels again, this time to another gospel imprint, Word Records, and
released two more Christian-themed LPs.

In the early '80s, Jackson was invited to Europe to play rockabilly and country
festivals, where plenty of early rock artists found enthusiastic audiences still
eager to hear their 1950s hits. Jackson's performances were well received by her
fans, and she began playing regularly in Europe and the United Kingdom while
still performing her gospel show in the United States. Around the same time,
several American country artists, including Pam Tillis, Jann Browne, and Rosie
Flores, acknowledged Jackson as a major influence. In 1995, Flores released a
rockabilly album, Rockabilly Filly, and invited Jackson, her longtime idol, to
sing two duets with her. Jackson embarked on a major U.S. tour with Flores later
that year; it was her first secular tour in the United States since the '70s,
and put her back into nightclubs. 2003's Live and Still Kickin' documented a
pair of 2002 shows in New York City with the revitalized Jackson back in the
spotlight. 2003 also saw the release of a new studio album, Heart Trouble, with
Jackson joined in the studio by illustrious fans including Elvis Costello, Dave
Alvin, and the Cramps. 2006's I Remember Elvis found her interpreting a set of
songs made famous by her old friend, as well as sharing her memories of him.

Jackson returned to the studio in 2010 to begin work on an album produced by
Jack White. Featuring a band including the White Stripes frontman, his wife
Karen Elson, various Raconteurs, My Morning Jacket's Carl Broemel, and a host of
others, The Party Ain't Over arrived in early 2011. Jackson's 31st studio album,
2012's Unfinished Business, was produced by Justin Townes Earle and featured
original material as well as covers of songs by Woody Guthrie, Etta James, Bobby
Womack, and others. Another groundbreaking female rocker, Joan Jett, paid her
own tribute to Jackson by producing 2021's Encore, which featured several new
songs written by Jackson, as well as a cover of the Johnny Tillotson classic "It
Keeps Right on A-Hurtin'." © Mark Deming



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