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Wanda Jackson: Unfinished Business

Holly Gleason, Paste, 9 October 2012

WITH A VOICE LIKE A CHAINSAW swallowed by a little girl, Wanda Jackson's brand of "shake 'em up, baby" is as kitten-with-a-whip as ever. The 75-year-old rockabilly queen's sex is still on fire: taunting the boys with Steve Earle's 'Graveyard Shift', the retro staccato bomp 'Pushover' and blues-country compulsion 'Old Weakness'.

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