Rockabilly pioneer Wanda Jackson announced her retirement from performing at the age of 81, but said the move was “the beginning of a new chapter.” Her career began in 1955, and she became known as ...

“He said, ‘You’ve got the voice and you’ve got the spirit.’ He cared enough to take me to his house. He played records and he said, ‘See, you can kind of do it like this,’” she recalls of her time ...

Before discussing country-rockabilly legend Wanda Jackson’s so-called final album, it’s best to clear up a few things. When most think of the last 20 years of Wanda Jackson’s career, and her return to ...

Around six years ago, a meeting was arranged between two of the most iconic women in music history: Joan Jett and Wanda Jackson. “My publicist at the time, Jon Hensely, suggested we contact her,” a ...

Wanda 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. He bought Wanda her first guitar two ...