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You, our fans, will always be the reason we are able to continue performing in your favorite hang-outs. We can't wait to be invited to perform at your party ... Keep coming to see us. Thanks for your continuing support. WE LOVE YOU!!!

NOTEWORTHY NEWS .....

That Man's Got To Go CD hit the Living Blues Radio Chart at # 17 3/3/09

That Man's Got To Go CD is hitting Airplay playlist across the US, Canada, Australia, France & Italy.

Thanks everybody.

Sweet Claudette

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Quotes & Reviews on That Man's Got To Go:

Reviews KVKR-FM, January ‘09 “Sweet Claudette, That Man’s Got To Go (No Cover) Ms. Claudette, though relatively unknown on the national scene, has the sound of a woman who has been singing the Blues for a good long time. And the group of musicians she has behind her on this record lay down a groove that does Detroit proud.”

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“… I think that your tunes are excellent, the delivery is superb and the blues groove is deep and wide...” TOMO, Toledo, OH

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"It's HOT and holds some great body throbbing music." Anom. writer

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For further info, contact sweetclaudett@aol.com or (313) 404-0714 (cell), or Mike Boulan of No Cover Productions at http://www.nocover.net/ See our NEWS/JOURNAL page to read up on this.

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Sweet Claudette Biography:

'Sweet Claudette' Harrell-Manning has performed on the Willie King Freedom Creek festival for several years and the Magic City Blues Festival both in Alabama, as well as Veterans Haven Fundraiser, several centers for the Mentally and Physically Challenged Adults, Hot Blues & BBQ, Heatstock, Port Huron Jazz & Blues Festival, Selfridge Air Force Base’s Family Appreciation Day, to name a few. “Claudette is the epitome of Detroit finger-snapping party blues, but she’s also a master at the low down. “ --- Mark E. Gallo, BluesByte, June 2009. Sweet Claudette is one of the best creative ‘unsung’ songwriters in the Midwest. Sweet Claudette’s blues songs run the gamet of funky, country, jazzy, classic up-tempo and slow blues feel. “Sweet Claudette is a sultry, deep-voiced singer and songwriter ...”, writes reviewer, George Fish in the February 2009, Illinois Blues Blast E-Zine. Sweet Claudette fronts a five - six piece band with wonderful rich horns intertwined into her music. Dubbed 'Detroit's Matriach of the Blues', Sweet Claudette has achieved local, regional, national and international status while singing the blues to fans in bars, clubs and lounges from Michigan to Alabama and Windsor to Burlington, Ontario Canada. Sweet Claudette enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience with youngsters through a Math In Music Program she personally created, as part of the (B.I.T.S.) Blues In The Schools offering. Sweet Claudette has recorded thirty-six originals.

For further information, check out the websites at www.myspace.com/sweetclaudette, www.sweetclaudette.bandvista.com, email sweetclaudett@aol.com or call (313) 404-0714.

RECENT RELEASES:

That Man's Got To Go, 2009 NEW RELEASE

Live & Kickin’, 2007

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Sweet Claudette & Friends Band were finalist in the 2007 Detroit Blues Society Competition.

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Affiliations:

Twice nominated for Detroit Music Awards

BMI Songwriter; member of Detroit Blues Society (detroitblues.com) & member of Black Swamp Blues Society www.swamp@bsbs.net in Toledo, Ohio

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Gigs in Alabama May 23 - May 30 - May 20, 2009

We're going down home on May 22nd. Greg and I will let our hair down at Mr. Gips, SPOONFUL to OPEN for us. Fo' sho' gonna see my sisters Anita, Shar-Baby & Ms. Caroline Shines. I'm gonna 'splain why THAT MAN'S GOT TO GO, and question what I have to do with the other 23 HOUR & 45 MINUTES. LOL Somebody ...... hold me back. I got a license to lay it down Detroit style while I'm there. Gonna dance 'til my feet are sore. Nuff said .... until I return on June 2nd.

Sweet C

That Man's Got To Go Accomplishments - April 5, 2009

We're very excited to report our accomplishments on our new release thus far.
That Man's Got To Go is CD of the Week in France week. That Man's Got To Go CD made it to #17 on the Living Blues Report, March 2009.
Keep praying for us.
Thanks / Sweet C

Living Blues March 2009 Radio Chart - April 4, 2009

Living Blues Magazine Radio Chart

1. Shemekia Copeland, Never Going Back, Telarc/Blues
2 Bobby Jones, Comin' Back Hard, Delta Groove
3 Saffire, The Uppity Blues Women, Havin' The Last Word, Alligator
4 John Nemeth, Love Me Tonight, Blind Pig
5 Guy Davis, Sweetheart Like You, Red House
6 Billy Flynn, Blues Drive, Land O' Blues
7 Ruthie Foster, The Truth According To Ruthie Foster, Blue Corn
8 The Nighthawks, American Landscape, Powerhouse
9 Damon Fowler, Sugar Shack, Blind Pig
10 Paul Rishell & Annie Raines, A Night In Woodstock, Mojo Rodeo
11 Derek Trucks, Already Free, Victor
12 The Soul Of John Black, Black John, Eclecto Groove
13 Luther Kent, Bobby Bland Songbook, Vetter
14 Gina Sicilia, Hey Sugar, Swingnation/Vizztone
15 Joe Louis Walker, Witness To The Blues, Stony Plain
16 Mitch Kashmar, Live At Labatt, Delta Groove
17. Sweet Claudette, That Man's Got To Go, No Cover
18 Susan Tedeschi, Back To The River, Verve Forecast
19 Mark T. Small, Screamin' & Cryin' The Blues, Whaling City Sound
20 Taj Mahal, Maestro, Heads Up Int'l
21 Anni Piper, Two's Company, Blues Leaf
22 S.E. Willis, Taproot, Mr. Suchensuch
23 Jorma Kaukonen, River Of Time, Red House
24 Elvin Bishop, The Blues Rolls On, Delta Groove
25 B.B. King, One Kind Favor, Geffen