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Wanda Jackson
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It's a long haul from winning an Oklahoma City talent contest in 1952 to hooking up with Jack White for 2011's The Party Ain't Over, but then again, the limits of Wanda Jackson's endurance in the rock 'n' roll business seriously defy belief. Here she is, the girl who once dated Elvis Presley, now lighting the trail to her mid-seventies with vocal wildfire, showing a crew of reverential whipper-snappers exactly how it's done. Back in the old days, she sent a frisson of shock through the Grand Ole Opry — where other country girls dabbed perfume behind their ears, Jackson seemingly favored a thick smear of moonshine — but became a born-again Christian in the '70s, and looked to the revivalist rockabilly clubs of Europe to keep her legend alive as the subsequent decades unfolded. Recently came her alliance with the aforementioned Mr. White: the perfect excuse to soak up some of that incredible Jackson energy and check out her back catalog . . . and that's what these Essentials are all about.