Charles Wesley Godwin Draws Inspiration From Home On New Album ‘Family Ties’

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Photo: Courtesy of Big Loud Records

Charles Wesley Godwin will release his third album, Family Ties, via Big Loud Records on Sept. 22. Fans are getting a taste of the new project with four new songs, “All Again,” “Family Ties,” “Cue Country Roads” and “West of Lonesome,” out now.

A portrait of home, relationships, and lessons learned and lived, the 19-track project was recorded at one of Godwin’s dream studios, Echo Mountain in Asheville, North Carolina, before he signed a record deal. The songs that comprise Family Ties are portals into Godwin’s life—tales of the native West Virginian’s friends, family and foundation. Tracks include the unflinching “Miner Imperfections,” penned for his father; the mournful “The Flood” for his mother; “Gabriel” for his son; the melancholy yet hopeful “Dance in Rain” for his daughter; and the love letter “Willing and Able” for his wife.

“I had to get back to the basics,” says Godwin of what finally set him and his new songs free. “I decided I was going to write about my life and my family. It’s where my heart was guiding me: to be super personal and dig right into the weeds of my life.”

Godwin and his band, The Allegheny High, will head back out on the road this month as openers on close friend Zach Bryan‘s arena tour, then begin their own headlining trek in September. He will also headline the historic Gruene Hall in Texas for the first time in October.

Family Ties Track Listing:
1. “Tell the Babies I Love Them (Overture)”(Charles Wesley Godwin)
2. “Family Ties” (Charles Wesley Godwin)
3. “Miner Imperfections” (Charles Wesley Godwin, Zach McCord)
4. “The Flood” (Charles Wesley Godwin)
5. “All Again” (Charles Wesley Godwin)
6. “Gabriel” (Charles Wesley Godwin)
7. “Dance in Rain” (Charles Wesley Godwin, Zach McCord)
8. “Another Leaf” (Charles Wesley Godwin)
9. “That Time Again” (Charles Wesley Godwin)
10. “Skyline Blues” (Charles Wesley Godwin)
11. “West of Lonesome” (Charles Wesley Godwin)
12. “Headwaters” (Charles Wesley Godwin)
13. “10-38” (Charles Wesley Godwin)
14. “Two Weeks Gone” (Charles Wesley Godwin)
15. “Soul Like Mine” (Charles Wesley Godwin)
16. “Willing and Able” (Charles Wesley Godwin)
17. “Cue Country Roads” (Charles Wesley Godwin)
18. “Take Me Home, Country Roads” (Taffy Nivert Danoff, William Danoff, John Denver)
19. “By Your Side (Underture)” (Charles Wesley Godwin)
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