Even as some really nice press and radio play comes through for our March 23, 2018 release “DANCE SCANDAL AT THE GYMNASIUM!,” we’re buzzing over the good news about our 2017 release “Pull Closer to Me: Live in the Piano Room“. This intimate live recording made for one of our personal favorite releases, and now it’s been recognized as a favorite of the Independent Music Awards, too.

And so, the Claudettes’ collection of Independent Music Awards winners on Yellow Dog Records includes:
2014: Best Instrumental Album: “Infernal Piano Plot…HATCHED!”
2014: Best Long Form Music Video: “The Claudettes: Live in the Studio”
2018: Best Live Performance EP: “Pull Closer to Me: Live in the Piano Room”

This is not to mention our two IMA nominations in 2016:
Best Instrumental (Mainly) Album: “NO HOTEL”
Best Instrumental Song: “Big Easy Women”

Thank you to the IMAs. Now, everybody, come see us live–tour starts this week!

Thank you to Gary Graff on Music for this beautiful piece in Billboard! This takes you into the recording session of our new album “DANCE SCANDAL AT THE GYMNASIUM!” and debuts our song “Give It All Up for Good.” Go get the album and go see us on tour!

While the Claudettes look ahead to our March 23 album release, we also got this great news: our most recent release, “Pull Closer to Me: Live in the Piano Room,” has been nominated for “Best Live EP” by the Independent Music Awards! We really do love this recording…the “softer side” of the Claudettes, featuring our own songs as well as some covers we love. Here’s the news on the IMAs and here’s the EP in question, via Yellow Dog Records. Don’t be Left Out in the Cold…go ‘n’ get ALL our nice, toasty recordings! Why not to-day?!

The Claudettes are racking up the spring tour dates. More to come. But first: there’s a new SCANDAL!!! The thoroughly untamed new album by the Claudettes is available for pre-order right now on the Yellow Dog Records website. It’s called “DANCE SCANDAL AT THE GYMNASIUM!”…please go here to read all about it, hear a few of its tracks and to pre-order it: http://bit.ly/2nWIWxK

Yellow Dog Records, who put out the first two Claudettes albums as well as an exclusive online-only EP, are putting out the brand-new Claudettes album “Dance Scandal at the Gymnasium!” in March 2018!

This album was recorded, mixed, mastered and produced by Mark Neill (Black Keys, Los Straitjackets, Old 97’s, J.D. McPherson, J. Roddy Walston & the Business, Paladins…) at his legendary Soil of the South Studio in Valdosta, GA. Stay tuned for previews including two videos featuring songs from the album!

Here’s a lil’ teaser

Innocent Words–now celebrating its 15th year–is premiering three live-in-studio Claudettes videos. These were all performed at Shirk Studios in Chicago, home of the renowned “Hear Ye Sessions,” which featured the likes of Mates of State, White Denim, Ha Ha Tonka, Justin Townes Earl, the Lumineers and a pre-stardom Alabama Shakes.
Two of these three songs are exclusive to these videos and not available anywhere else. The other (coming later in December) is “Pull Closer to Me,” a song to be features on the band’s forthcoming album “DANCE SCANDAL AT THE GYMNASIUM!,” which arrives in March 2018 on Yellow Dog Records.

The first of the videos: “24/5”: http://innocentwords.com/innocent-words-exclusive-premiere-the-claudettes-245/
There you can read the impetus behind this rollicking, ultra-groovy little number.

More to come…watch it and share it!

Doris II will cart us to Ohio this weekend, then she’s getting traded in for a brand-new Ford Transit, all-custom-like! You should climb in sometime.

Our West Coast/Canada tour was just outstanding, thanks to everyone who came and who helped put on the shows and festivals.

We’re playing Midwest and East Coast in the coming months, starting this Friday. Look ‘n’ SEE.

Our new album produced by Mark Neill (Black Keys, Old 97’s, Los Straitjackets, J.D. McPherson, Paladins…) is done. We’re looking for the right home for it. In the meantime, a solid SIX new music videos are coming: four live-in-studio, one conceptual video (with a sneak peak at that Mark Neill audio) and one animated video (by the artist who created this, once upon a time).

We’ll have more news soon. Come up and see us sometime,
Claudettes
p.s. Please avail yourself: all our currently available recordings are right HERE.

We are! Please see the tour dates here. With the East Coast dates we’re about to add, we’re literally talkin’ coast-to-coast (and Canada, too). I know, I know, oil changes, tire rotation, yada yada…please come and post/share these shows in these towns!