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Annie and the Caldwells: Can’t Lose My (Soul) review – a joyous gospel family affair
Matriarch Annie Caldwells’s soaring voice steals the show in this Mississippi band’s spiritual, soulful debut
Multigenerational gospel soul group Annie and the Caldwells are the rarest of things: a genuinely homespun family band. Formed in the 1980s as a way for matriarch Annie to keep her four children out of trouble, the group have spent the past four decades honing their richly melodic sound in their home town of West Point, Mississippi. Sibling rhythm section Willie Jr on bass and Abel Aquirius on drums hold down a formidable groove, anchoring the uptempo funk of Wrong and polyrhythmic percussion of I Made It, while daughters Anjessica and Deborah and goddaughter Toni provide honeyed backing vocals on the title track.
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