Let's Have A Party: The Very Best Of Wanda Jackson

ALL THE SONGS ARE DONE IN THE PERIOD THEY WERE WRITTEN...THEY R DONE WELL BY WANDAAND SOUND JUST LIKE THE OLD DAYS.....I LOVE THE DISK,ESP THAT IM OLDER THAN HER AND LOVED HER SONGS FROM HER COUNTRY PRERIOD.....THE ROCK AND ROLL WERE TAUGHT TOHER FRM ELVIS,YES THE GREAT ELVIS PRESLEY........HOPE SHE PUTS OUT MORE OF HER SONGS O FUTURE DICS.........IVAN

With Wanda Jackson's profile raised by her new Jack White-produced album,  The Party Ain't Over , Varese Sarabande offers up sixteen sides from her key years on Capitol. The set opens with 1956's "I Gotta Know," storms through rockabilly classics "Fujiyama Mama," "Mean Mean Man," "Rock Your Baby," and "Let's Have a Party," adds incendiary takes on The Robins' "Riot in Cell Block #9," Little Richard's "Rip it Up" and Jerry Lee Lewis' "Whole Lot of Shakin' Goin' On," and fills out the picture with a few of Jackson's country ballads, including two Top 10 hits, "Right or Wrong" and "In the Middle of a Heartache." It's a quick look at a catalog that is deeper on both sides - rockabilly and country - than could fit into sixteen tracks. More specific collections can be found in Ace's  Queen of Rockabilly  and  The Very Best of the Country Years , and Bear Family's monumental  Right or Wrong  and  Tears Will Be the Chaser for Your Wine . Fans might also want to pick up Capitol reissues of Jackson's original albums, but for a quick introduction to her musical brilliance, this is a good bet. Tracks 1-7 and 9 are mono, the rest stereo. 3-1/2 stars, if allowed fractional ratings. [©2011 hyperbolium dot com]