Family Spirit

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[9]
The Buffalo News	[10]
Robert Christgau	[11]
Record Mirror	6/10[12]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[6]
Tulsa World	[13]

The St. Petersburg Times wrote that "Cecil and Linda Womack do not play by any musical rules, especially the ones that say black musicians are supposed to work within certain styles."^[14] The New York Times concluded: "Linda and Cecil Womack probably don't think of themselves as pillars of the outsider-pop community. But that's what they are after seven years of crafting extraordinary love songs with singular grooves."^[15] The Washington Post opined that "the lyrics resemble the questioning, pondering tone of Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, and the music has a similar jazz-influenced, open sound."^[8]

The State determined that "the Womacks make a sort of garage funk with a message."^[16] The Buffalo News deemed the music a "sound that is both bluesy and earthy."^[10] The Tulsa World stated that the Womacks "explore loneliness and an almost desperate search for togetherness at a time when most pop songs dwell on sexual power games."^[13]