Annie and the Caldwells: Can’t Lose My (Soul) review – a joyous gospel family affair

21-03-2025 12:30 via theguardian.com

Annie and the Caldwells: Can’t Lose My (Soul) review – a joyous gospel family affair

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Matriarch Annie Caldwells’s soaring voice steals the show in this Mississippi band’s spiritual, soulful debutMultigenerational 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.Their debut album, Can’t Lo

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