Charles Wesley Godwin

For Charles Wesley Godwin, music — and more specifically, songwriting — has forever been a direct reflection of what lies on his heart. 2019’s Seneca is a young man’s reflection on place, on upbringing, on a way of life that is and always will be his native West Virginia. 2021’s How the Mighty Fall is a treatise on mortality and the contemporary, commonplace entanglements that threaten to derail us. 2023’s fan-favorite Family Ties is an equal-parts tribute to and dissection of complex, albeit achingly beautiful, familial dynamics. And now, with Christian Name, Godwin’s much-anticipated fourth full-length studio LP, the musician returns with his most vividly compelling, stunningly sincere, and spiritually profound collection of songs yet. Due July 24 via Big Loud Records, Christian Name, for Godwin, is undoubtedly an intensely personal collection of songs — a journey inside the courageous singer-songwriter’s soul. It’s a stunning 12-song collection, and one that doubles as a mechanism for the musician’s otherworldly healing. Christian Name is more than just another body of work; it’s how Godwin learned to live again. Through moments of mourning. Through tales of redemption. And ultimately, through a tried-and-true reaffirmation of his faith. “That’s what the album’s about,” Godwin muses one recent morning. “It’s about mourning, but it’s also pointing to God as a healer and my salvation.”

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