{"id":1307060,"date":"2019-03-27T11:27:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T17:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1804438"},"modified":"2019-03-27T11:27:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T17:27:23","slug":"rockabilly-queen-wanda-jackson-announces-retirement-cancels-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/rockabilly-queen-wanda-jackson-announces-retirement-cancels-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockabilly Queen Wanda Jackson Announces Retirement, Cancels Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/morrise\/\" title=\"Posts by Edward Morris\" rel=\"author\">Edward Morris<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">12m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Without citing a specific cause, rockabilly queen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/wanda-jackson\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wanda Jackson<\/a> has canceled her scheduled concerts and announced her retirement from performing.<\/p>\n<p>A statement on her Instagram account says her decision to retire is \u201csolely based on health and safety.\u201d It adds that the 81-year-old singer will not be making her scheduled appearances in Las Vegas (April 20) or in Nashville (May 25).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BvfKgg_gOoH\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>A native of Maud, OK, Jackson has been making music for more than 60 years. She had her own radio show by the time she was 15 and while still in high school toured with Hank Thompson\u2019s Brazos Valley Boys.<\/p>\n<p>Her 1954 duet with Thompson\u2019s sideman Billy Gray \u2014 \u201cYou Can\u2019t Have My Love\u201d \u2014 was her first single to chart. She joined the Ozark Jubilee after graduating from high school. Intermittently from 1954 through late 1955, she toured with Elvis Presley. She credits him with turning her toward a rockabilly sound and helping her find her \u201cgrowl.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BnULGVbhPcY?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BnULGVbhPcY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>By 1956, she had signed to Capitol and recorded the half-country\/half-rockabilly \u201cI Gotta Know.\u201d Backing her on the single, which topped out at No. 15, were such musical luminaries as Buck Owens, Joe Maphis, Skeets McDonald and Speedy West.<\/p>\n<p>In 1958, she recorded \u201cFujiyama Mama.\u201d It failed to chart in the US but became a major hit in Japan and an enduring part of her repertoire. She had the biggest chart hit of her career in 1961 with \u201cIn the Middle of a Heartache,\u201d which she co-wrote. It rose to No. 6.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"f26c12ab\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"><noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/GettyImages-74277597-1553707482.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/GettyImages-74277597-1553707482.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=481 481w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/GettyImages-74277597-1553707482.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=660 660w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/GettyImages-74277597-1553707482.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=768 768w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/GettyImages-74277597-1553707482.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=980 980w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/GettyImages-74277597-1553707482.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1200 1200w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/GettyImages-74277597-1553707482.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1500 1500w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/GettyImages-74277597-1553707482.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title=\"Photo of Wanda Jackson\" class=\"js-srcset-img shortcode-image\" alt><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jackson was a performing star in Las Vegas during the late \u201850s and well into the \u201860s. Beginning in 1967, she recorded as \u201cWanda Jackson and the Party Timers.\u201d While she steadily occupied the charts throughout the \u201860s and into the mid-70s, she scored no big hits.<\/p>\n<p>Her highest charting singles during this period were \u201cBoth Sides of the Line\u201d (No. 21), the combative \u201cMy Big Iron Skillet\u201d (No. 20), \u201cA Woman Lives for Love\u201d (No. 17) and \u201cFancy Satin Pillows.\u201d(No. 13). Between 1960 and 1962, five of Jackson\u2019s singles made the pop charts, including \u201cLet\u2019s Have a Party,\u201d \u201cRight or Wrong\u201d and \u201cIn the Middle of a Heartache.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Starting in 1971, Jackson declared that she was a born-again Christian and would no longer record and perform secular material. But by the 1980s she was again embracing her country and rockabilly roots (but without chart success).<\/p>\n<p>Through the \u201880s and \u201890s, Jackson regularly toured Europe. She also became the grande dame to such admirers as Cyndi Lauper, Rosanne Cash, Pam Tillis and Rosie Flores.<\/p>\n<p>In the twilight of her career she released these notable albums: <em>Heart Trouble<\/em> (2003), which included guest performances by Elvis Costello, the Cramps and Flores; <em>The Party Ain\u2019t Over<\/em> (2011), produced with Jack White; and <em>Unfinished Business<\/em> (2012), produced by Justin Townes Earle. It was Jackson\u2019s first album in 39 years to make Billboard\u2019s Hot Country Albums chart.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the \u201cearly influences\u201d category.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She released her autobiography, <em>Every Night Is Saturday Night<\/em>, in 2017.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Edward Morris is a veteran of country music journalism. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a frequent contributor to CMT.com.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1804438\/rockabilly-queen-wanda-jackson-announces-retirement-cancels-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 12m ago Without citing a specific cause, rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson has canceled her scheduled concerts and announced her retirement from performing. A statement on her Instagram account says her decision to retire is \u201csolely based on health and safety.\u201d It adds that the 81-year-old singer will not be making her scheduled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1307060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 00:40:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}