For those unaware, hot beats, raving rock, stirring soul ... The Claudettes reach new heights of aural audacity with their astonishing new album entitled GARAGE GLAMOUR.

Fiery and fabulous frontwoman Rachel Williams dazzles on this album, just as she has been on Claudettes stages since 2023. GARAGE GLAMOUR features production by Grammy winner/musical Renaissance man Steve Berkowitz and by JQ, who co-composed the score for smash TV series The Bear with Claudettes keyboardist/songwriter Johnny Iguana.

Along with the band’s mighty Zach Verdoorn (bass, guitar) and Michael Caskey (drums) you’ll hear guest performances by revered blues/soul man John Primer and endlessly in-demand guitarist Ella Feingold (Silk Sonic, Eyrkah Badu).

1. (You Are My) Whole World (feat John Primer)
2. Winter Came While You Were Gone
3. That Could Be Arranged
4. Touch You Back
5. Whirlpool
6. Mr. Pecker’s Apoplexy
7. No Matter How Much
8. The Aftermath
9. Don’t Give it Up to the Thieves
10. There Is No Other Side

Six albums into their lauded career, the Claudettes (of Chicago) continue to put a fascinating new spin on American roots music. Blues and R&B are laced with punk spirit and film-noir moods to create the band’s singular “garage cabaret” sound. The Claudettes have earned worldwide acclaim with their recordings and concerts that are equal parts heart, musicianship and theatrical flair.

With the band having seemingly mastered every era of American music, from the roots of the blues to today’s modern pop, they open on the emotively wrenching (You Are My) Whole World (feat John Primer) and the all-embracing Winter Came While You Were Gone and then we get gifted the gently sterner fare within the swirls and twirls of That Could Be Arranged, the rhythmical flouncy funk of Touch You Back and the dutiful hipsway of Whirlpool.

Along next is the boldly sculpted Mr. Pecker’s Apoplexy, which is itself backed by the staggeredly melodious No Matter How Much, the atmospheric The Aftermath, the set rounding out on the euphorically rap-fueled Don’t Give it Up to the Thieves, coming to a close on the veritably ethereal balladry of There Is No Other Side

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