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Question: What was last thing bought on Amazon?
Charles Wesley Godwin: “Last thing I bought on Amazon were tree rings, those like rubber landscape fabric, like mats that you put around a tree trunk to keep the weeds from growing up and choking them. I planted a bunch of Eastern white pines to plant a pine grove in the back of my property and put those around the trees to block the weeds, from choking them out”
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Question: Do the Kiddos understand what you do?
Charles Wesley Godwin: Yeah, my son and my older son and daughter both have a pretty good idea of what I do now. They’ve been to some shows, they’ve been up on stage with me at the end of them, so they get it. I think that it’s funny from their perspective, it’s just like, oh yeah, this is just what dad does. It’s just completely the same as any other job and that’s pretty cool. And I’m actually like, I’m glad they like my music, which, you know, I. It could be very easy for a toddler to not like my music, in my opinion, but they actually really enjoy it, so that’s a cool thing.
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Question: How did you meet your wife?
Charles Wesley Godwin: “My wife and I met when we were both at WVU. She was in grad school, I was an undergrad, and I was singing bluegrass music. It was a Wednesday night at a place called Schmidt’s Saloon in Morgantown, West Virginia, and she’d been drug out by her friend. She didn’t feel like going out that night, but her friend insisted on her coming out, and that’s where we met. We met after the show. And then I proceeded to ask her out for a couple months until she finally gave in and would go on a date with me.”
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Question: What food do you like to try on the road?
Charles Wesley Godwin: “Well go to anytime there’s like an off night. I love steak steak houses. So I like going to a nice steak house And having the band and crew all out and us having a nice meal together. So i I really enjoy that um, and then something that’s a must on the rider is um is We’ve been doing these turmeric ginger like immunity shots and the you know, they’re like filled with like cayenne pepper and things like that too, but uh, you know at this stage in life, I think it’s uh keeping us all pretty pepped up and we cheers that like it’s an actual like shot of something. So we’ve been doing those immunity shots the last couple of years. So that’s something that’s on the rider that we enjoy every single day, every time.”
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Question: Are there any dream collab writers you’d like to write with?
Charles Wesley Godwin: I’ve gotten to do that this go-around. I got to write with Lori McKenna, Tom Douglas, Tony Lane, Scooter Caruso, Aaron Ratier, Travis Meadows, some amazing writers. But yeah, so it’s been a fun experience to get to have the opportunity to do that, have the support system around me now with the label and publishing and stuff to be able to write with some of these folks that I’ve really admired. For years and I think it’s making me, Liz Rose is another one too, how could I forget that, right? And it’s been a fun experience to get to do that for the first time and I think it made me a better songwriter going forward.