Annie & The Caldwells

With an immediacy that lit us up from the first needle drop, this family unit bring multiple generations of hope, love, and hurt to their full-bodied Gospel sound - each voice weighed heavy with a history, with a lifetime mapped out in harmony, in dazzling quavers, in the full force of a lung-bursting deep soul wail.

Essential stuff. ANNIE & THE CALDWELLS are a family that plays a powerful disco soul from West Point, Mississippi, led by Annie Caldwell (who sings) and her husband of the last fifty years, Willie Joe Caldwell, Sr (who plays guitar). Annie is backed by daughters Deborah Caldwell Moore [Pronounced de-BOR-ah, or BORA, not debra, you white ass] and Anjessica Caldwell and goddaughter Toni Rivers; their eldest son Willie Jr. is on the bass and youngest son Abel Aquirius is on the drums.

'Can’t Lose My (Soul)' is their new album 40 years in the making … and it’s already gotten rave reviews in MOJO and The Guardian even before it’s been announced.