love the chorus especially Doug,
I agree the drums need more focus

Was that a baritone guitar doing the main riff? Interesting choice. I dig it. Your voice sounds fine, but I would try holding the words longer to get more of a legato feel. You have a good voice. I'd like to see you push it more. Try singing along with Steve Perry on "Open Arms" and hold the notes as long as he does. I'm not a big Journey fan, but Perry's got that legato thing down. He makes all the words flow into each other in a way that most of us could never do, but I think you could if you worked at it.
 
Bill

This has all the elements of an early, classic rock song.  Your voice is even different, sounding like the yardbirds or kinls or something. :D  Needs a classic les paul solo.  The one you have is more in service of the song, rather than something really special.  I think it'd be worth the effort.  Good one.

MarkusClinus - Thanks for listening - Tom Petty had a huge influence on me.
kennywtelejazz - Thanks for listening and for your critiques.  This was a tough song to sing for my vocal.
bjornpdx - I appreciate you stopping by to give my song a listen - thanks.
bapu - Thanks for listening, and a Ray Davies comparison works for me  I'll work on the drums a bit more.
markno999 - Thanks for listening and for your critiques.
daryl1968 - Thanks for giving my song a listen, and I"ll work on the drums in the mix.
Wayfarer - Thanks - I'll give Open Arms a try - Steve Perry's voice is a tough one to match
eph221 - Thanks for your comments - you could be right in that I should do a more elaborate solo - thanks for listening.
 

Yeah I thought the guitars were out of tune, not the bass, and just in the first 30 seconds. The rest of the song seems tuned, or else I got used to it?
 
However, great voice, great song, great Ray Davies comparisons, to which I would add Sean Kelly of the Samples, one of my favorites.
 
Mix-wise everything comes in just a bit hot - are you doing mix bus smashing? Backing off just a tad maybe? And the vocal reverb is a lot lighter than the drums reverb, which is cavernous at times.
 
Absolutely love that last held guitar note. Fantastic tone.
 
another winner I'd say. Lemme know where to buy your album when it comes out.
 
-Tom

I agree with some of the comments above -- vocals (which are good!!!) have a Petty/Davies sound to them.  You have a good song going here.  The melody has a great hook to it and the the lyrics are also good.  I really like that guitar riff that comes in about 1:37.
 
Nice one.

emeraldsoul -  I usually mix the multitracks down to a stereo track, and then I applied the LP EQ, LP MB, and the Adaptive Limiter to the master mix bus. I added a bit of air for the LP EQ and chose Pop Master for the LP MB - I dialed back a bit on both. I went back and turned up the drums a bit, and backed off on the reverb.  I added a bit of reverb to the lead vocal - so I hope it's more balanced now.
 
You're very kind to offer to buy my album - if you want to download - go here, and it's free (it's a double album - two volumes):
https://www.soundclick.com/bands3/?bandID=978948
 
Thanks again.
 
Freddy J - thank you very much for listening and your comments.
 

Like the energy and feel of this one.
 
Drums need to be louder in the verses + bridges for me.
 
Nice song - thanks for sharing.
 
Good Job!
 
paul

thegaltieribrothers - Thanks for listening and for your comments - I'll give the drums another listen.

I usually don't review the same artist on the same day, but I really was taken by this song.  It sounds like everything is in tune and grooves together nicely on this one.  Catchy melody too.  Had my foot tapping.
 
John B.