A family of gospel singers is releasing their first new music in nearly 50 years.
Siblings R.C. Brown, left, Annie Brown Caldwell, center, and Edward Brown, original members of the Staple Jr. Singers, gather for a group photograph in their home church of Johnson Chapel Holiness Church in Aberdeen, Miss., May 20, 2024. – She made a single gospel soul record in the 1970s with her brothers, when they were all teenagers. Then Annie Brown Caldwell moved on with her life.
And on Friday, the Browns are releasing “Searching,” their first batch of new songs in nearly 50 years, and gearing up for a tour in July to the Roskilde festival in Denmark as well as the Netherlands, Slovakia, and Germany. Yale Evelev, the president of Luaka Bop, heard Belson’s radio show and pulled from his collection for a compilation of 1970s gospel soul songs called “The Time For Peace Is Now.” He wanted to include the Staples Jr. Singers single, but first he had to find the band. He figured out that Annie Brown was now Annie Caldwell, and called all seven listed in Mississippi.
They worked it out, and agreed to perform four shows in New York in 2022. Evelev heard some songs that weren't on their 1975 record and asked if they had any unreleased music. It turned out they recorded about a dozen songs in Muscle Shoals in the 1980s.
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