Somewhere in between Willie Nelson and Jimi Hendrix (0) _____ Cordell Jackson, an American musician thought to be the first woman (18) ________ produce, engineer and promote music on her own rock and roll music label. She was making music very (19) ________ to the star band Velvet Underground before the world was even introduced (20) ________ rock & roll. The Mississippi-born, ballgown-wearing guitarist played with more energy (21) ________ any Indie band today, and during live performances, Cordell would strum on her guitar (22) ________ fast that she would often break her guitar picks. At the height of her career, she appeared on MTV news and became known as "rock-and-roll granny". Jackson started playing the guitar at the age of 12. She began writing her own songs in her 20s after moving to Memphis, the later capital of rock & roll. "They did (23) ________ have a name for "rock & roll" then, Cordell (24) ________ MTV news in 1989. "I just always played it fast". In the 1960s and '70s, she worked with local artists and soon became something (25) ________ an icon on the Memphis music scene. She drove a yellow car and lived in a yellow house. Her first music video, (26) ________ helped her gain nationwide fame, was filmed at that very house. Jackson's Moon Records label was the oldest continuously operating label in Memphis at the time of her death in 2004.
