Charles Wesley Godwin w/ Lily Fitts

The Christian Name Tour When you release a project like Charles Wesley Godwin’s 2023 critically acclaimed Family Ties — a highly personal, 17-song diary-like LP that was both universally praised and also catapulted the West Virginian singer-songwriter to new heights in his career — the outside perception is that there are greater expectations on whatever music comes next. Ask Godwin, however, and he’ll tell you that instead of dwelling on any chatter that accompanied such a revered release, he did what he always has done: Godwin simply kept on writing. “I’ve learned from the past that it’s not good to stop,” says the singer-songwriter — a humble songsmith whose music is deeply felt, undeniably intimate, and, over the past few years, has been connecting with audiences in ways he could have never imagined when he began his career just over a decade ago. “The more consistent I am and the more I’m putting in the time and effort into my songwriting, the more the songs come and the more I’m able to be productive.” 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