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| Released | August 20, 2021 | |||
| Recorded | 2019 | |||
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| Length | 24:47 | |||
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Encore is the thirty-second and final studio album by American singer Wanda Jackson. Produced by fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members 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]
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] When it was announced in June 2021, Jackson commented on the experience: "Right around the time I retired from performing and what I thought was the end of my career, I found myself back to writing songs with some of the great writers in Nashville. The songs you hear are truly my life story. This is the first time I have ever inserted so much of my personal life into my music." [3]
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 . [4] The album is set for release on August 20, 2021 via Big Machine Records and Blackheart Records. She has said it will be her final album. [1]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Big Baby" |
| 3:02 |
| 2. | "Two Shots" (featuring Elle King and Joan Jett ) |
| 2:50 |
| 3. | "You Drive Me Wild" | Joan Jett | 3:37 |
| 4. | "Good Girl Down" (featuring Angaleena Presley and Candi Carpenter ) |
| 3:15 |
| 5. | "It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin'" | Johnny Tillotson | 2:55 |
| 6. | "We Gotta Stop" |
| 2:59 |
| 7. | "Treat Me Like a Lady" (featuring Joan Jett) |
| 2:35 |
| 8. | "That's What Love Is" (featuring Joan Jett) |
| 3:31 |
| Total length: | 24:44 | ||
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