Video: Thunder On The Mountain - Wanda Jackson and Jack White

We had a blast seeing Rock and Roll Hall of Fame artist Wanda Jackson at South by San Jose in Austin last weekend. Her latest album, The Party Isn't Over , is produced by ex-White Stripes rocker Jack White and features this version of Bob Dylan's "Thunder On The Mountain." Wanda, 73 years old, is the first woman to record a rock and roll song, she had a ton of hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s and was Elvis Presley's squeeze for a while.  Last week she told the audience, "I still have the ring [...]

It's no shock that teaming Jack White with one of the great rockers of all time would yield great results, but the surprise is in how natural they sound together. You really can't talk about a late-career record like Wanda Jackson's The Party Ain't Over without mentioning Rick Rubin's work with Johnny Cash. For better or worse, the prolific recordings Rubin produced for Cash in his last years have provided a sort of formula for revival records. Rubin, though, certainly had an aesthetic, and you can hear it come across with ham-handed force on the lesser of Cash's late [...]

[Birthday greetings today to Cat Power ... Now on to the weekend:] Four very different shows that pique my interest: ► Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Wanda Jackson , the 73-year-old Queen of Rockabilly whose new album "The Party Ain't Over" (out next week) was produced by Jack White, starts a two-night stand Sunday night at the El Rey Theatre. White and the Third Man House Band back her. Love the video for "Thunder on the Mountain," above. Get your legend on. ► Week 3 of the [...]