Longtime Philly musician Don Lee Van Winkle (we know him and love him simply as “Winkle”) has a new record GREAT UNKNOWN and will be backing up its release with a performance and party tonight at Franky Bradley’s. Perhaps you go WAY back with Winkle to his American Dream days (were you at the MGK Earth Day concert at Fairmount Park many years ago when they played?) It’s been a fateful couple of years for Winkle and his family and the result has been this album. Here is the title tune for your listening enjoyment!

PHILADELPHIA, PA (July 11, 2019) – After the sudden loss of his wife in 2017, a happen-chance road trip to Nashville, TN & Austin, TX turned from a spur of the moment getaway into a fateful artistic labor of love. This meant-to-be-accident yielded the cathartic and impassioned construction of a set of newly written material that would eventually lead to Winkle’s third studio album, Great Unknown. This 10 song album battles through themes of loss, romance and a man’s unsure place in the world. Winkle’s lyrics are personal and packed with a genuine sense of long lived experience, yet his guitar playing stills exudes an excited and youthful passion. As softly introspective as it is loud and in your face, Great Unknown is surely a trip that all music lovers will enjoy.