Jack White of White Stripes to produce Oklahoma rockabilly star Wanda Jackson’s new album

Jack White of White Stripes to produce Oklahoma rockabilly star Wanda Jackson’s new album

Posted by brandy
on November 14, 2009M at 7:42 pm



Wanda Jackson performs in Bricktown earlier this year.
(Photo by Jim Beckel/The Oklahoman Archives)

Jack White (Associated Press photo)

Wanda Jackson, the “Queen of Rockabilly” and “First Lady of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” was en route to Nashville, Tenn., on Friday to meet in a recording studio with alternative rock star Jack White.
The Oklahoman’s Entertainment Editor Gene Triplett spoke with Jackson by phone as she was waiting for a flight connection at Denver International Airport.
Jackson is set to record a new album with White as the producer. They first will record a single for digital release before completing an album.
“One of the biggest stars on the planet I guess right now,” she said of White during her phone interview with Gene.
A singer-songwriter, pianist, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and producer, White is one-half of the garage rock revivalist duo The White Stripes, which he founded in 1997 with then-wife Meg White. He also leads two other alternative rock bands, the Raconteurs and the Dead Weather.
White produced country legend Loretta Lynn’s critically lauded 2004 album “Van Lear Rose.”
“They had a super album, but he didn’t have her do anything different, you know,” Jackson told Gene. “She just did her little Loretta Lynn songs. But he told me he’s gonna stretch me some, so we’ll see. We’ll talk later.”
Jackson may be 72, but this isn’t her first time to work with new-generation musical talents; she has previously worked with Dave Alvin, The Cramps, Rosie Flores, Lee Rocker, the Cadillac Angels and Elvis Costello.
A Maud native and Oklahoma City resident, Jackson was inducted earlier this year into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Her next OKC show will be at 8 p.m. Nov. 21 at 66 Bowl, 6810 NW 39, at a 50th anniversary celebration for the Route 66 landmark.

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