Charles Wesley Godwin "Family Ties" Goo Goo Dolls "A Boy Named Goo (30th Anniversary represented on this record

represented on this record

artfully woven into the same body of work in the unmistakable style that could only be Dwight Yoakam

This album was a promising debut

Railing against the tired tropes of what elder generations claimed the "millennial" generation looked like - participation trophies

Charles Wesley Godwin "Family Ties" Goo Goo Dolls "A Boy Named Goo (30th Anniversary represented on this recordFamily 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