Charles Wesley Godwin "Family Ties" 2025-06-13 featuring the live recording of

featuring the live recording of the 2018 performance from NPR Headquarters in Washington

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Charles Wesley Godwin "Family Ties" 2025-06-13 featuring the live recording ofFamily Ties, Charles Wesley Godwin's third album and first with Big Loud, is a portrait of home, of relationships, of lessons learned and lived. Perhaps most exciting, the 19 track release showcases a tunesmith at the peak of his powers melding melody with memories, workmanship with wisdom. Godwin demo'ed the songs that would become Family Ties on a Tascam 4 track (thanks to his love for Bruce Springsteen's seminal Nebraska) and then recorded them at