Family Ties - Charles Wesley Godwin

Family 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 one of his dream studios, Echo Mountain in Asheville, North Carolina, before he signed a record deal.

He recorded the album with his long-time band, the Allegheny High, and long-time producer, Allegheny High guitarist Al Torrence.

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