Win Entry To Meet & Greet With Rockabilly Superstar Wanda Jackson at Rev Room Show This Wednesday!

LITTLE ROCK — Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2009 inductee Wanda Jackson — widely known as the First Lady of Rockabilly — is coming to Little Rock, and 10 lucky ticketholders will win entry to a special meet-and-greet with Ms. Jackson before the show!
Jackson, a singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist who was one of the first popular female rockabilly stars of the mid-1950s and '60s — and is unofficially known as the first woman to record a rock 'n' roll record — transitioned into a fairly successful mainstream country music career in the late 1960s and '70s with the decline of rockabilly. But with a recent rekindled interest in the genre has come a resurgence in Jackson's popularity across Europe and the United States.
Now she is headlining a show this Wednesday at Revolution Music Room, and Rev Room & LoveLiveMusic.com are giving away five pairs of tickets to a special pre-show meet-and-greet with the First Lady of Rockabilly.
To enter the contest, just post a comment on the Facebook event page at
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=215598888456827. Five winners will be randomly selected from among all the names with FB comments posted since the contest began at 6 p.m. today, Monday May 23, and each winner will be allowed to bring a guest. Only ticketholders will be allowed entry into the meet-and-greet with Ms. Jackson. Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 day-of-show and are available at Rev Room, 823-0090, or at www.revroom.com.
Grammy-winning Jackson is best-remembered by most for her rockabilly Top 40 hits "Let's Have a Party" (also recorded by Elvis), "Right or Wrong," and "In the Middle of a Heartache," which peaked at No. 6. She also found some legs in a cover of Jerry Lee Lewis' "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' on."
More recently, Jackson has toured the country and globe, playing all kinds of festivals including SXSW in Austin last year with her new backing band, Oklahoma-based alt-country band The Green Corn Revival. On New Year's Eve, she covered an Amy Winehouse hit on the BBC's "Hootenanny" alongside Jools Holland and his orchestra, and a few weeks later she appeared with Jack White on "The Late Show with David Letterman" — where there reportedly was a whole lotta foot tappin' goin' on.
Now she has a brand new album out, "The Party Ain't Over," produced by Jack White of the White Stripes and Raconteurs, that has received many positive reviews from critics and fans alike.
Following is what some major media outlets have had to say recently about Jackson:
•Jackson's new album is … "at once reverent and uproarious.The song selection is superb: rollicking versions of Eddie Cochran and Little Richard songs, calypso standard, a gutsy reimagining of Bob Dylan's "Thunder on the Moutain." Jackson's not content to just remake the greats: Her slaying of Any Whinehouse's "You Know I'm No Good" is a master class for her wild-child inheritors." — Rolling Stone
•"Whether she's tackling Dylan for a rollicking first single ("Thunder on the Mountain") or taking on "Rum and Coca-Cola" and Amy Winehouse, Ms. Jackson still sounds regal and evergreen." — The Wall Street Journal
•"Rockabilly siren Wanda Jackson has returned with a vengeance..Jackson's spitfire voice hasn't lost an inch and only gained gravity with age." — Los Angeles Times
•"Jackson's gritty mobile-home-park vocals elbow their way through a mix where the outcome is as much punk as it is rock and the Queen confidently executes both with unexpected exactitude." — Filter
•"[Ms. Jackson] still sounds fantastic, and her gnarled, feisty vocals are a good fit with Mr. White's production" — The New York Times
•"With her brand-spanking-new Jack White-produced album, The Party Ain't Over and the fun performances supporting it, Wanda Jackson, 73, is making her case not for mere rock and roll relevance in 2011, she's cementing her status as royalty. She's still got her trademark genius growl. A voice like no other." — Huffington Post
To see the video for "Thunder on the Mountain" featuring Wanda, Jack, and the Third Man Band, go to: http://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialTMR#p/a/u/0/BnULGVbhPcY
To see the video for "Riot in Cell Block #9" featuring Wanda, Jack, and the Third Man Band, recorded live at Third Man Records in Nashville, go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ0-fNin7Wg
Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime chance to meet a true legend of rock and roll — who once dated Elvis Presley briefly before each married other people — and get your rockabilly-swing on at the same time!
Jackson headlines at Rev Room, 300 President Clinton Ave. in Little Rock, on Wednesday, May 25 in an ALL AGES show. Showtime is at 8 p.m.; opening will be Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs.
Call 823-0090 for VIP or ticket info.
For information on other shows coming to Little Rock in the coming weeks, visit www.lovelivemusic.com or find us on Facebook under Love Livemusic!

*To hear Wanda Jackson's music, as well as music from other acts performing in the coming weeks at Rev Room and its sister club Stickyz Rock N' Roll Chicken Shack, check out the LoveLiveMusic radio station at:
http://www.last.fm/listen/user/lovelivemusicLR/personal