Editor’s Note: Here at No Depression there’s too much great roots music in a year for us to cover it all. So in December, when new releases slow down, we ask writers to review some of the best albums we missed throughout the year in an on-going series called What We Missed.
It’s often said that the family that prays together stays together, but what becomes of the one that also plays together? If they’re anything like Annie & the Caldwells, they’re bonded by more than blood or belief. As with the Mississippi-grown gospel group, they’re soul-connected through song, the words they sing and the magic they create through music making them one.
On the band's latest album and first release since 2018’s We Made It, Annie & the Caldwells truly become a single force. This is hardly their first time at the mic – the Caldwells have been performing together for decades, and the matriarch and chief vocalist, Annie Brown Caldwell, has had a musical presence since the 1970s – but today’s Can't Lose My (Soul) showcases the funk-soul-faith act as they’ve never been heard before.
