Video: Wanda Jackson’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “Thunder on the Mountain”
The video for Wanda Jackson and Jack White’s rollicking cover of Bob Dylan’s “Thunder on the Mountain” debuted today on Spinner.com.
“It was filmed in a record plant in Nashville where they were pressing the vinyl copies of my record,” Jackson, 73, tells Spinner.
The Dylan cover is featured on Jackson’s new album, “The Party Ain’t Over,” which White produced. It will be released Jan. 25 on Nonesuch Records and White’s Third Man Records.
Jackson, the Oklahoma City music legend known as the Queen of Rockabilly, said it was White and Dylan’s idea for her to cover the song.
“Jack wanted me to do a Bob song,” Jackson tells Spinner. “They’re longstanding friends and Bob suggested ‘Thunder on the Mountain.’”
But she changed the lyrics of the second verse to pay tribute to her old friend Jerry Lee Lewis. “In Bob’s version, he sings ‘thinking about Alicia Keys,’” she tells Spinner. “‘Jerry Lee’ fit right in there.”
The video for the song features the Third Man House Band, which includes White on lead guitar. White and the band will back Jackson during her performances Thursday on “The Late Show with David Letterman” and Jan. 25 on “Conan” as well as in her CD release shows this weekend in New York and Los Angeles.
Jackson, a Maud native who is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, will kick off the new semester at the Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma with a free Jan. 28 show at the school’s Performance Lab, 323 E Sheridan in Bricktown. Green Corn Revival, the Weatherford band whose debut album “Say Your a Sinner” made my list of top albums of 2010, will open for and back Jackson during the ACM@UCO show.
Check out the track listing for “The Party Ain’t Over” after the break, and look for Gene Triplett’s interview with Wanda Friday on NewsOK.com and in The Oklahoman.
Wanda Jackson “The Party Ain’t Over” track listing
1 Shakin’ All Over (Johnny Kidd) 3:47
2 Rip It Up (R.A. Blackwell, J. Marascalco) 1:52
3 Busted (Harlan Howard) 2:48
4 Rum and Coca-Cola (Jeri Sullavan, Paul Baron, Morey Amsterdam) 4:39
5 Thunder on the Mountain (Bob Dylan) 5:13
6 You Know I’m No Good (Amy Winehouse) 4:29
7 Like a Baby (Jesse Stone) 2:40
8 Nervous Breakdown (Mario Roccuzzo) 3:28
9 Dust on the Bible (Johnny Bailes, Walter Bailes) 3:17
10 Teach Me Tonight (Sammy Cahn, Gene de Paul) 3:17
11 Blue Yodel #6 (Jimmie Rodgers)
-BAM
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Jim and Janice Baker have been fans of Wanda Jackson since her days with Hank Thompson and KLPR. We are so glad to see she has a new album and hope it becomes a hit. She deserves the recognition. She still can rock!