Charles Wesley Godwin opens for Zach Bryan and the two sing a cover of John Denver's classic "Take Me Home, Country Roads" live in concert before a sold-out crowd at The Warfield in San Francisco, California on October 22, 2022. Take Me Home Country Roads originally appeared on John Denver's fourth studio album, Poems, Prayers & Promises (1971). Zach Bryan is a country music singer-songwriter from Oologah, Oklahoma. Charles Wesley Godwin is a folk and country singer-songwriter from Morgantown, West Virginia. Godwin opened for Bryan on over a dozen dates of Bryan's American Heartbreak Tour.

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Charles Wesley Godwin live tour dates (2022):

Oct. 23 - Reno, NV @ Cypress
Oct. 25 - Seattle, WA @ WAMU Theater (w/ Zach Bryan)
Nov. 3 - Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre (w/ Zach Bryan)
Nov. 5 - Simpsonville, SC @ Greenville Country Music Fest
Nov. 11 - San Diego, CA @ Gallagher Square (w/ Zach Bryan)
Dec. 6 - Waterloo, NE @ Buck's Bar and Grill
Dec. 7 - Waterloo, NE @ Buck's Bar and Grill
Dec. 8 - Wichita, KS @ Wave
Dec. 9 - Springfield, MO @ Southbound Bar & Grill
Dec. 10 - Columbia, MO @ Rose Music Hall
Dec. 15 - Knoxville, TN @ Open Chord Music
Dec. 16 - Madison, IN @ Red Bicycle Hall
Dec. 17 - Lexington, KY @ The Burl
Dec. 18 - Lexington, KY @ The Burl

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Charles Wesley Godwin official bio:

A native of West Virginia, Charles Wesley Godwin makes cinematic country-folk that's as gorgeous and ruggedly raw as his homeland. It's Appalachian Americana, rooted in Godwin's sharp songwriting and backwoods baritone. With 2021's How the Mighty Fall, he trades the autobiographical lyrics that filled Seneca — his acclaimed debut, released in 2019 and celebrated by everyone from Rolling Stone to NPR's Mountain Stage — for a collection of character-driven songs about mortality, hope, and regret, putting an intimate spin on the universal concerns we all share.

The son of a coal miner father and a schoolteacher mother, Godwin began forging those musical connections in 2013, while studying abroad in Estonia. He'd learned the acoustic guitar several years earlier, looking for a diversion after failing to secure a spot on the West Virginia University football team. Halfway across the world in Estonia, he started strumming songs in his apartment, summoning the sights and sounds of West Virginia for a group of new friends who'd never laid eyes on the state. Fans were made, gigs were booked, and Godwin launched his full-time music career shortly after graduation.

Marriage soon took him to Ohio, where his wife worked as a fundraiser. Even so, West Virginia remained at the forefront of Godwin's mind, and he saluted the area's influence with his 2019 debut. Seneca was a hit, with Billboard praising the album's "the vivid language and scenic ambience," and Rolling Stone enthusing, "His voice, with its tight, old-world vibrato, is perfect."

Charles Wesley Godwin has never been afraid to blur the lines, and How the Mighty Fall proudly straddles the borderlands between several genres. It's a country album by an Appalachian-borne folk singer and blue-collar believer, laced with enough electricity to satisfy the Saturday night revelers and enough scaled-down acoustic balladry to soundtrack the slow, gentle pace of Sunday morning. This is music for campfires and car rides, for pool halls and mountain peaks, for big-city diehards and small-town loyalists. It's Charles Wesley Godwin at his best, diving into character studies and richly-created fiction while still offering glimpses of the man behind the music.

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Take Me Home, Country Roads lyrics:

Almost Heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, growing like a breeze

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads

All my memories gather 'round her
Miner's lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads

I hear her voice in the morning hour, she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
Driving down the road, I get a feeling
That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads

Take me home, country roads
Take me home, country roads

Written by John Denver / Bill Danoff / Taffy Nivert