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Annie and the Caldwells – Can't Lose My (Soul) – New LPPlease meet Annie & the Caldwells, a family from West Point, Mississippi. Cant Lose My (Soul) by ANNIE & THE CALDWELLS Ms. Annie Caldwell a proud mother of five and the owner of Caldwell's Fashions, on Main Street in West Point MS sings lead and her husband Joe plays guitar. Their daughters Deborah and Anjessica sing backup, and sons Abel and Willie Jr. play the drums and bass. Together they play almost every Sunday at churches in Mississippi. Gospel
Please meet Annie & the Caldwells, a family from West Point, Mississippi.
Ms. Annie Caldwell — a proud mother of five and the owner of Caldwell's Fashions, on Main Street in West Point MS — sings lead and her husband Joe plays guitar. Their daughters Deborah and Anjessica sing backup, and sons Abel and Willie Jr. play the drums and bass. Together they play almost every Sunday at churches in Mississippi.
Gospel music has the ability to not only move you spiritually but move you emotionally as well. Annie & the Caldwells inspires your body with their vibrant music that is at home as much in a church of God as in the church of a dance club.
“Best soul band on the planet? Best band on the planet? I need to tell the world about them. Specifically some editor ... but after that the world … (Also is the lead backing vocalist single, I may be in love).”
– David Hutcheon, MOJO
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 Caldwells says, “My family is my band”: she is backed by their daughters Deborah Caldwell Moore and Anjessica Caldwell and goddaughter Toni Rivers; their eldest son Willie Jr. Caldwell is on the bass and youngest son Abel Aquirius Caldwell is on the drums.
They generally play on weekends, so for their day jobs Willie Jr. drives a forklift, Abel Aquirius drives hospital patients, Anjessica works in customer care for an insurance company, Toni is an elementary school teacher, and Deborah does hair. Annie runs a clothing store on Main Street called Caldwell Fashions, which has been a beloved staple for women dressing for COGIC (Church Of God In Christ) convocations and anniversaries since the 1980s. Caldwell Fashions is still open five days a week, and by appointment (we suggest you stop in).
CAN'T LOSE MY (SOUL) is twenty years in the making. They recorded it in West Point down the street from Annie and Joe’s house—at a church where Joe plays guitar every other Sunday, and where his father used to be a deacon. It was produced by Ahmed Gallab, the artist Sinkane, who together with the engineer Albert DiFiore drove a mobile rig down from Nashville and turned the back room of the church into a control room.
“Hearing Annie’s voice for the first time was like witnessing something rare,” Gallab said of the recording session, “Like you’re in the presence of a force of nature that’s been here long before you. It’s visceral, almost like it’s coming from her soul. You can feel every part of her life, every little piece of her journey, in each note she hits. It’s pure talent: no effort, no pretense, just real and raw.”
“And working with Deborah was like tapping into pure fire,” he said. “She's feisty, no doubt! That spark, that intensity she brings, spills right into her music. The tough love that these girls gave each other. Calling each other out when one wasn’t in key. It was pretty funny.”
– David Hutcheon, MOJO
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 Caldwells says, “My family is my band”: she is backed by their daughters Deborah Caldwell Moore and Anjessica Caldwell and goddaughter Toni Rivers; their eldest son Willie Jr. Caldwell is on the bass and youngest son Abel Aquirius Caldwell is on the drums.
They generally play on weekends, so for their day jobs Willie Jr. drives a forklift, Abel Aquirius drives hospital patients, Anjessica works in customer care for an insurance company, Toni is an elementary school teacher, and Deborah does hair. Annie runs a clothing store on Main Street called Caldwell Fashions, which has been a beloved staple for women dressing for COGIC (Church Of God In Christ) convocations and anniversaries since the 1980s. Caldwell Fashions is still open five days a week, and by appointment (we suggest you stop in).
CAN'T LOSE MY (SOUL) is twenty years in the making. They recorded it in West Point down the street from Annie and Joe’s house—at a church where Joe plays guitar every other Sunday, and where his father used to be a deacon. It was produced by Ahmed Gallab, the artist Sinkane, who together with the engineer Albert DiFiore drove a mobile rig down from Nashville and turned the back room of the church into a control room.
“Hearing Annie’s voice for the first time was like witnessing something rare,” Gallab said of the recording session, “Like you’re in the presence of a force of nature that’s been here long before you. It’s visceral, almost like it’s coming from her soul. You can feel every part of her life, every little piece of her journey, in each note she hits. It’s pure talent: no effort, no pretense, just real and raw.”
“And working with Deborah was like tapping into pure fire,” he said. “She's feisty, no doubt! That spark, that intensity she brings, spills right into her music. The tough love that these girls gave each other. Calling each other out when one wasn’t in key. It was pretty funny.”
credits
releases March 21, 2025
Annie Brown Caldwell – vocals
Deborah Caldwell Moore – featured vocals
Anjessica Caldwell – backing vocals
Toni Rivers – backing vocals
Hikemia Moore – backing vocals on “Wrong”
Willie Caldwell, Sr. – guitar
Willie Caldwell, Jr. – bass
Abel Aquirius Caldwell – drums
Parker James - Congas
Gerald Jenkins - Hammond B3
This record was lovingly recorded as a family at The Message Center in West Point, Mississippi, October 2023.
Produced by Ahmed Abdullahi Gallab
Engineered by Albert Di Fiore
Mastered and lacquer cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman
Executive Produced by Yale Evelev and Eric Welles-Nyström
Liner Notes by Danielle Amir Jackson
Eliza Grace Martin was right here (the whole time)
Designed by Chris Hopkins of Lost Art
Props to Adam Wissing and Jacques Lang, who spent every day of our recording session with cameras on their shoulders, and to Kevin Tran, Savannah Weymouth, and Paul Tyree-Francis for wading through hours and hours of footage to make beautiful videos.
Cover photo by Jomo Fray from the film All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt by Raven Jackson, courtesy of A24 Films LLC.
Thanks to everyone in the Caldwell family for trusting us with this record. Thanks especially to Hikemia Moore, Deborah’s daughter, for contributing backing vocals for her mom and for making us laugh; thanks to Hikemia’s own daughters Ariel and Asia for being a joy; thanks to Deborah’s other daughter Dee Dee and Dee Dee’s daughter Trinity for smiling for the camera; and thanks to Mason Rivers, Toni’s son, for joining us during the session. Thanks to Raven Jackson for her film, which inspired our cover; thanks to Paul Diddy for his love behind the scenes; thanks to Elliot Russell and Lydia Somani for transcribing the lyrics, among many other things; thanks to Christian Georgiadis of Bacana for sending the band to Europe; and a very special thanks to Jayme Evans for overseeing all of Ms. Annie’s interviews from the History Room of the Bryan Public Library of West Point.
A most heartfelt thanks to Pastor Elder Orlando C. Pannell of The Message Center, who graciously let us record this album in his house of worship; and thanks to Willie Joe Caldwell, Sr., whose own father was once the deacon of The Message Center, and who opened the door every morning and closed it every night.
We ate at the Tin Lizzie Café, Pantry 45 and Waffle House every day. Every night, we celebrated our session at Soprano’s Cafe and Billiards with a round of pool and beers. Shout out to West Point, MS.
By the way, Albert Di Fiore constructed an engineering rig that was mobile and drove it all the way from Nashville, TN, to West Point, MS. If you need a remote rig like this to record on location, he’s your guy.
(And if your last name is Jackson, please get in touch).
Annie Brown Caldwell – vocals
Deborah Caldwell Moore – featured vocals
Anjessica Caldwell – backing vocals
Toni Rivers – backing vocals
Hikemia Moore – backing vocals on “Wrong”
Willie Caldwell, Sr. – guitar
Willie Caldwell, Jr. – bass
Abel Aquirius Caldwell – drums
Parker James - Congas
Gerald Jenkins - Hammond B3
This record was lovingly recorded as a family at The Message Center in West Point, Mississippi, October 2023.
Produced by Ahmed Abdullahi Gallab
Engineered by Albert Di Fiore
Mastered and lacquer cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman
Executive Produced by Yale Evelev and Eric Welles-Nyström
Liner Notes by Danielle Amir Jackson
Eliza Grace Martin was right here (the whole time)
Designed by Chris Hopkins of Lost Art
Props to Adam Wissing and Jacques Lang, who spent every day of our recording session with cameras on their shoulders, and to Kevin Tran, Savannah Weymouth, and Paul Tyree-Francis for wading through hours and hours of footage to make beautiful videos.
Cover photo by Jomo Fray from the film All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt by Raven Jackson, courtesy of A24 Films LLC.
Thanks to everyone in the Caldwell family for trusting us with this record. Thanks especially to Hikemia Moore, Deborah’s daughter, for contributing backing vocals for her mom and for making us laugh; thanks to Hikemia’s own daughters Ariel and Asia for being a joy; thanks to Deborah’s other daughter Dee Dee and Dee Dee’s daughter Trinity for smiling for the camera; and thanks to Mason Rivers, Toni’s son, for joining us during the session. Thanks to Raven Jackson for her film, which inspired our cover; thanks to Paul Diddy for his love behind the scenes; thanks to Elliot Russell and Lydia Somani for transcribing the lyrics, among many other things; thanks to Christian Georgiadis of Bacana for sending the band to Europe; and a very special thanks to Jayme Evans for overseeing all of Ms. Annie’s interviews from the History Room of the Bryan Public Library of West Point.
A most heartfelt thanks to Pastor Elder Orlando C. Pannell of The Message Center, who graciously let us record this album in his house of worship; and thanks to Willie Joe Caldwell, Sr., whose own father was once the deacon of The Message Center, and who opened the door every morning and closed it every night.
We ate at the Tin Lizzie Café, Pantry 45 and Waffle House every day. Every night, we celebrated our session at Soprano’s Cafe and Billiards with a round of pool and beers. Shout out to West Point, MS.
By the way, Albert Di Fiore constructed an engineering rig that was mobile and drove it all the way from Nashville, TN, to West Point, MS. If you need a remote rig like this to record on location, he’s your guy.
(And if your last name is Jackson, please get in touch).
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★★★★★ 5
Valuable perspective; moving; beautiful
Format: Hardcover
I loved this book. I devoured the entire thing in one sitting on a Sunday afternoon. It's a beautiful and tragic and warm story all at the same time. I feel like a lot of times when we hear about the Vietnam war in the United States, it's told from the perspective of American soldiers rather than the Southern Vietnamese who lost their home land. Really refreshing to see this diverse and nuanced perspective. I look forward to Thi Bui's future works.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2022
★★★★★ 5
This book healed me
Format: Paperback
Beautifully written and illustrated. Although Thi Bui and I have astronomically different life experiences, I still found I could relate on a deeply personal level. This book taught me empathy and forgiveness at a time in my life where I struggled to have it. Bui nailed the complicated feelings and emotions that comes with confronting abuse, abusers (who happen to be your parents), and the painful impact of generational trauma on both the parent and child.
Highly recommend this book to anyone who is on a path of healing their own broken heart.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2023
★★★★★ 4
Powerful Family History
Format: Paperback
After the birth of her son, Thi Bui feels an increased sense of urgency about learning the stories of her own parents. Like all but her youngest sibling, she was born in Vietnam, though the children came of age in the United States. While the war itself haunts all of them, was the reason they left their homeland, the wounds her parents bear go far beyond the military conflict. This was only the second graphic novel I’ve ever read (both have been memoirs), and like the first was also selected by my book club. I feel like the limitations of the format mean it will always be a less preferred one for me, because I found myself wanting more words, more depth to the writing itself. But the story is deeply compelling, detailing her father’s brutal childhood, her mother’s much softer one, how they came together, and how the Vietnam War disrupted the future they thought they might have. It’s not as straightforward as “Americans bad”, and Bui is not afraid of the moral ambiguity of that time and place, where the best interests of the majority of the Vietnamese people was an open question for larger forces that seemed to have little room for consideration of what might have actually made regular lives easier to lead. And apart from the larger geopolitical machinations around them, the family had their own share of tragedy, including the death of their first child and a later stillbirth. But three living children and another on the way was enough for her parents to make frantic arrangements to leave, finally succeeding and eventually making their way to the United States. But of course, that was not the end of their story, just the beginning of a new chapter. Bui’s childhood as she depicts it makes it clear that it wasn’t the stuff dreams are made of, but what shines through is her tremendous empathy for her parents and how they became the people she experienced them as. Overarching the narrative is a meditation on parenthood, as it is the birth of her own child that inspires her to ask her parents more. They might have made major mistakes, but it is clear that they loved their children and did what they thought was best for them, making countless sacrifices to give them the best opportunities possible, even if that love was not always shown the way that they wanted and needed to feel it. Vietnamese perspectives on the war in their country were not something I was exposed to growing up (honestly the Vietnam War itself wasn’t something I remember being taught with particular rigor in high school apart from its connection to electoral politics), and I appreciated learning more about the history of the country and how the people who actually lived through the conflict thought about it. Even though this is not my preferred format, I think Bui uses it well to engage in some non-linear storytelling and to very literally illustrate what she’s trying to get it, like the way she parallels the way her relatively rural parents must have felt seeing Saigon for the first time with the way she felt when she first moved to New York, a sense of awe and possibility. It’s a powerful, moving work and I would recommend picking it up!
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Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Truly, the best we could do
Format: Kindle
An excerpt from my analysis essay I submitted for my literature course: By revisiting her family’s past from before, during, and after the Vietnam War, she gained a deeper understanding of the emotional burdens her parents carried and the sacrifices they made that defined the entirety of their lives. Bui’s illustrated graphic memoir reveals that trauma does not simply disappear over time; instead, it becomes inherited, processed, and transformed. Through this process, Thi Bui is able to move toward empathy for her parents, acceptance of who they are, and a more complete sense of self.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Phenomenal. A must-read!
Format: Paperback
I first learned about this book only a week ago when visiting my sister for Thanksgiving in Eugene, Oregon. We went to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art where I saw some work on display by the author, and there was a copy of her book available to look at, so I perused through and decided to buy it and read it. I'm so glad that I did! This is an incredible, poetic story that spans four generations, multiple wars and conflicts, and examines the fragility of the author's relationship with her parents and with her sense of place and motherhood. This book is one of the best I've read in a long time, and the art is moving and beautiful. It gave me new insight into the struggles of refugee life, and created a truly relatable narrative. I devoured this story in one Saturday. I highly recommend it.
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