A unassuming songwrighter and inspired storyteller
His music has been called cinematic country folk, as scenic and wild as his home countryside in West Virginia. This is americana from the Appalachians delivered in Charles Wesley Godwin's precise songwriting and his rural baritone.
Growing up in coalmining country, son of a coalminer and a teacher, Godwin reckoned on a career in sport. But he did not make the college football team and learned guitar instead. Soon after graduating, he began playing music full time.
His debut album Seneca (2019) was a success, winning critical praise. Godwin toured USA then played full houses in Europe. When Covid put a temporary stop to touring, he spent the time writing the album How the Mighty Fall (2021), a collection of songs about people and the choices they make. In 2023, he followed up with 17 deeply personal, diary-like songs on the well-reviewed album Family Ties. This lifted his career to new heights, without reducing his drive to write songs.
In 2024, Godwin's hitherto most productive year, he wrote about 30 songs, releasing seven of them on the EP Lonely Mountain, snapshots in song of life on the road. These are poetical reflections, Godwin meticulously picking over situations, barring life's more sensitive moments.
Charles Wesley Godwin is bringing his band with him to Tønder Festival, and this will be their only concerts and festival in Denmark in 2025.
