Big Winner is a new project from Charles Griffin Gibson, perhaps better known to you - and certainly to me - as Chuck, whose tales of relationship angst and heavy drinking set to a backdrop of grizzled Americana can be heard, among other places, in a session he did for me ten years ago. You can get the session - along with his other releases for the label - at the Audio Antihero bandcamp.
He's since moved from the US to Norway, become a father for the first time and reinvented himself with a positive moniker and a more upbeat sound, albeit one that thankfully hasn't sacrificed the gritty urban folk of his previous incarnation.
The single Blissin' Out is a case in point: I'm featuring it in my FSK show this month (listen on-demand here) and it serves as a fine introduction to an album which certainly signposts a new direction but one which is nonetheless aware of the what it took to get here. These are still tales of life experience, their melancholia given context and shape by the rough-hewn experiences of a man who's lived it all and come out the other side wearing the wounds like a champion.
Get the album here.
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