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Album Review
Wanda Jackson: I Remember Elvis
by Mike Perciaccante
Sometimes referred as the female Elvis Presley, often called the Queen of Rockabilly, Wanda Jackson was, and is, the first great female rocker. While dating Presley (yes, he was her boyfriend) and touring on the same bill in the mid 1950s, The King himself encouraged the young Jackson to mix country with jumpy rock 'n' roll--and the rest, as they say, is history. Fifty years later, this long overdue set serves as both the followup to 2003's Heart Trouble and ...
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