For those still unaware, singer-songwriter Charlie Winton first released “Rising Tide” as his advance track from Shadowland, his just released fourth album on digital/CD this past on May 1st, 2026 via Melatron Music.

Every track on Shadowland, including “Rising Tide” was produced by Scott Mathews (Brian Wilson, Van Morrison, Jack Nitzsche, Roy Orbison as well as the Durocs), who also worked with Winton on his three previous full-lengths.

Winton describes the new single as “a meditation on the passing of time, memory and mortality, an affirmation to meet the day. Always time to get it right. Sonically, it fits right into the groove of what we wanted to do with the album, which was to open up the sound, lean into the voice and create a swampy, soulful vibe.”

1. Dreamin’s The Best
2. Never Say Never
3. Shadowland
4. Lost Youth
5. Rising Tide
6. Illusions
7. Your Eyes
8. Jerome

The Bay Area-based singer-songwriter who ten years ago segued from his storied publishing career to a full-time focus on creating music, opens his new recording on the emotively sculpted Dreamin’s The Best and then we get the more strident fare of Never Say Never, the rhythmically heartfelt Shadowland and the driven rocker Lost Youth.

Along next is the Tom Waits-imbibed Rising Tide which is in turn backed seamlessly by the folk-American vibe of Illusions, the new set rounding out on the infectiously melodious Your Eyes, coming to an all-too-soon close on the affecting mid-tempo countrified Americana of the evoking Jerome.

Charlie Winton is a Bay Area-based singer-songwriter who ten years ago segued from his storied publishing career to a full-time focus on creating music, a passion he had been pursuing for 50 years. Among the authors Winton worked with during his dynamic publishing days were Gore Vidal, Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, and Jim Harrison.

Notable of the many best-selling books are 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth, Cold Mountain, Black Hawk Down and The Politics of Truth, as well as the Rick Steves travel guides. He’s also published books by such diverse musical characters as Bobby Keys, Dee Dee Ramone, Richard Hell, Eric Burdon, Jay Farrar as well Dennis McNally’s On Highway 61.

Charlie Winton - Rising Tide (Official Music Video)

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