Encore (2021 Wanda Jackson album) explained

Encore is the thirty-second and final studio album by American singer Wanda Jackson. Produced by Joan Jett and Kenny Laguna, the album was released on August 20, 2021 via Big Machine and Blackheart Records. It is Jackson's first album in nine years following 2012's Unfinished Business.^[1]

Background

The album was recorded in 2019, prior to Jackson's announcement that she was retiring from performing, following a previously undisclosed stroke which occurred in late 2018.^[2]

Promotion

The album's first single "It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin'" was originally a 1962 hit for American country pop singer Johnny Tillotson.^[1] "Good Girl Down" which features Angaleena Presley and Candi Carpenter, was written by Jackson and Presley in 2018 and originally appeared on Presley's second studio album Wrangled.^[3] The album was released on August 20, 2021 via Big Machine Records and Blackheart Records. She has said it will be her final album.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Freeman . Jon . Wanda Jackson Announces Final Album ‘Encore’ With Joan Jett . . 1 July 2021.
2. Web site: Bernstein . Jonathan . Wanda Jackson on Why She Had to Retire From Touring . . 1 July 2021.
3. Web site: Moss . Marissa R. . Angaleena Presley on New Album, Being a Country Radio ‘Whistleblower’ . . 1 July 2021.