Wanda Jackson to receive Americana Awards lifetime achievement honors tonight
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and Maud native Wanda Jackson will once again be honored for her contributions to American music tonight.
The Americana Music Association will cite the 72-year-old for lifetime achievement during tonight’s Americana Awards in Nashville, Tenn.
Jackson, in the association’s words, is “the undisputed Queen of Rockabilly and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member whose growling glamour reshaped the role of women in both rock and roll and country.” She will be honored in the performance category.
This year’s other lifetime achievers are John Mellencamp, whose songs have influentially combined the blue collar sweat of rock and roll and the humble grit of honky tonk; Luke Lewis, Chairman of Universal Music Group Nashville, whose visionary commitment to the label’s Lost Highway imprint has created a home for numerous Americana greats; Greg Leisz, the go-to lap and pedal steel, guitar and mandolin virtuoso who has enriched recordings by Lucinda Williams, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss and more; and Brian Ahern, whose work as a producer includes seminal albums by Emmylou Harris, as well as output from Marty Robbins, George Jones, Anne Murray, Billy Joe Shaver, Rodney Crowell, Jesse Winchester and Ricky Skaggs.
Back in the 1950s and ’60s, Oklahoma City’s own rockabilly queen with the knockout voice became one of the first women to perform rock ‘n’ roll.
Jackson will be one of the performers on tonight’s awards show, along with Emmylou Harris, The Avett Brothers, Rodney Crowell, Rosanne Cash, Patty Griffin, Sam Bush, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Ryan Bingham, Corb Lund, Sarah Jarosz, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Joe Pug, Will Kimbrough.
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