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May 24, 2011At its core, The Party Ain't Over is a strong testament to Jackson's enduring talent, and White's vision for how best to deploy it. Even though Jackson was never actually gone, it's a pleasure having her back.
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Feb 1, 2011Jackson's gritty mobile-home-park vocals elbow their way through a mix where the outcome is as much punk as it is rock and the Queen confidently executes both with unexpected exactitude.
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Jan 28, 2011All in all, The Party Ain't Over proves to be a bold success.
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Jan 28, 2011It's no real surprise that teaming one of today's great rockers with one of the great rockers of all time would yield such great results, but the surprise here is in how natural they sound together.
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Under The RadarJan 27, 2011Jack White leads a rock and roll gang that manages to put the focus on Jackson while practically rebuilding the framework of old-school rock. [Year End 2010, p.70]
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Jan 26, 2011In the main, she remains stylistically faithful to the originals.
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Jan 26, 2011This Party succeeds in merely rejuvenating, rather than reinventing, wonderful Wanda.
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Jan 25, 2011Most artists her age would be content to release a greatest-hits compilation and wait for the checks to roll in, but Jackson's willing to let White guide her through new territory. After all, they're trying to say the same thing. They just say it a little different.
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Jan 25, 2011There are a lot of ideas at work on The Party Ain't Over, and while some come off as too calculated, the album's pervasive sense of fun and audaciousness usually wins out.
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Jan 25, 2011Her thin, raspy voice retains plenty of sass six decades on, and White's live-sounding band conjures the ambience of a gritty gig in some back alley bar for a rowdy crowd of mariachi bikers. Well done, Grandma Wanda.
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Jan 25, 2011The Jackson-White reboot casts the song as a swampy, country vamp, and while it isn't a horrible idea in theory, it does feel contrived and a bit of an unnecessary pander. Even with that misstep in mind, though, it's pretty tough not to root for Wanda Jackson and The Party Ain't Over.
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Jan 25, 2011Jack White's collaboration with rock's original trouble girl is at once reverent and uproarious.
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Jan 24, 2011If you think Jack White's given 73-year-old Wanda Jackson a new lease of life, then think again; she's been kicking up a hot fuss since she ditched that Elvis fella in the mid-'50s.
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Jan 18, 2011For "Shakin' All Over," White runs Jackson's goblin-queen croak through the analog fetishist's version of Auto-Tune, while "Rum and Coca Cola" rides the most lopsided punk-calypso groove since Kid Creole and the Coconuts.
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Jan 10, 2011The Party Ain't Over may well be dogged by obvious comparisons with Van Lear Rose, but Jackson's effort deserves to be judged on its own terms. Whilst the results are mixed, its best moments are captivating.
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Jan 10, 2011A rich, warm, big-hearted and hilarious album.