Wanda Jackson: Rockin' With Wanda (180g, 6 bonus tracks) [NUMBER ONE ESSENTIALS]

Why you'll love it

This 180g edition adds six bonus tracks to the twelve on Capitol's 1960 LP. AllMusic called the album "absolutely the best collection of Wanda Jackson's rockabilly recordings", and it holds "Fujiyama Mama", "Mean Mean Man" and "Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad".

This edition

• 180g vinyl
• Six bonus tracks after the original twelve
• 18 tracks in all

About the album

Wanda Jackson was among the first women to make a career in rock and roll, and the nickname "the Queen of Rockabilly" was earned on records like these. She toured with Elvis Presley in 1955, and it was Presley who nudged her toward the new sound; once she signed to Capitol in 1956, the label let her cut country and rockabilly side by side.

Capitol gathered twelve of those rockers in 1960 and called the result a collection of country songs "in the rhythmic singing style of Wanda Jackson", which is a polite way to describe a voice that growls. Her own "Rock Your Baby" opens it, "Cool Love" and "Honey Bop" keep it bouncing, and "I Gotta Know" closes side B by flipping between a country waltz and full-tilt rock and roll. The bonus tracks here ("Our Song", "Sinful Heart", "A Date with Jerry" and three more) come from the same years. Nearly seventy years on, it still sounds like it was recorded slightly too loud on purpose, and we wouldn't change a thing.

Absolutely the best collection of Wanda Jackson's rockabilly recordings.
Richie Unterberger, AllMusic

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Out September 18, 2026 on Number One Essentials (cat# 291055), a reissue of the 1960 Capitol album.