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Wanda Jackson on Why She Had to Retire From Touring

“I wanted to work right up until the point that I couldn’t. That point has been reached,” says the “Queen of Rockabilly”

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Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Wanda Jackson announces retirement from touring

A Maud native, Jackson launched her musical career while still a student at Capitol Hill High School in Oklahoma City, when country musician Hank Thompson heard her singing on a local radio station. When "You Can't Have My Love,” her 1954 duet with

This is sad news. I was fortunate to see her play many times over the past couple of decades. I also got to hear her speak about her long career and met he twice. She is a very classy, very nice, very talented lady. The kind of person who is becoming more and more rare.