Don’t get me wrong: we at the Modern Pea Pod love all music, regardless of such phonily objective qualifiers as influence and mass appeal. But when it comes to someone like Wanda Jackson, lines have to be drawn. Wanda Jackson is a living legend: not just the first woman to achieve infamy as a rock and roll singer, but one of the most vital musicians — male or female — ever to grace the genre.
She emerged as a teenage country singer in mid-1950s Oklahoma, …