Ok, Thanks Robbay.  You need a Lava lamp if you don't have one. It changes everything......

Hey, Tim,
 
I'm with Gary and Frank, both versions are absolutely fantastic!
 
But, if I had to pick, I'd go with Mix #2.  Personally, I like the intro on the second mix better, and think the overall mix sounds warmer and "richer" sounding.
 
Either way, beautiful song and great production work.  Nice one, buddy!
Bob

You really got a great voice... and a damn good ear.

On my headphones the background seems to compete with the vocals volume-wise.

A really great tune.  My kind of chord progression.   I like the arrangement too.  Very sentimental, it's got a lot going for it.  Good job.
  I'm referring to  mix #2.
Daryl

All I can say Tim is that this is just gorgeous.

Thanks for posting this one - so nice.

Don't listen to those Mix 1 haters.

Hi Tim, sorry I'm late to the party here. This is great in my opinion. A little bottom heavy for me personally, but nothing that made me feel it was too much.

The second mix is more to my liking, but I'd suggest a little low passing on the flute or whatever that is that replaced the other sound you were using in mix 1. There's a little bit of sizzle in the sound which I didn;t feel should be there..but again, nothing bad at all.

Vocals are huge and so are the guitars. Maybe a bit too huge? The bottom end curbing via mastering would probably handle it and bring things back into perspective. But again I stress, none of it is bad...just a personal observation on my behalf. I love the intimacy you captured on this track with the guitars and the voice....as well as the arrangment and performance. Excellent job man!

-Danny

Tim this is so nice, so mellow and so beautiful that I need to take a second listen to just try to reach something I wish I had the musical terminology and capacity to ask you about.  By the way, I heard this rainstick that Beagle was referring to I think just around the 2:00 mark or immediately after; I agree with his comment, I don't think it adds. 
You have such a sound here in this blending of an awesome unique vocal, and a pristine recorded set of guitars, it starts off kinda slow while we get the pace and the feel... so mellow.. with such a nice lyric....  grabs ya and pulls ya in before ya know what happened.
There's that nice piano blend with both electric and acoustic guitar... strings so soft that they aren't noticeably there but they are...I wanted to say this was the sound I always wished I could achieve but hadn't stumbled onto it yet.   Danny said it best I guess, about the bottom end and the intimacy you've achieved here.  This is one truly outstanding, awesome piece of work.  I will be keeping an ear out for more of this, Tim  thanks and please keep doing what you're obviously doing so well. 
~ John 

Not my cup this round.  Perhaps I'm a poor judge ... I listened to both versions half way ... did not get hooked on any elements in either.  This is a regression, IMHO.

Unfortunately, I've always had trouble wrapping my head around country and CCM ... despite my own compositions in these genres.  Rarely do these genres fail to make me puke.

Fortunately, everyone else loves your tune!

Besides that I ponder here:  What grabs me? ... or why am I not 'listening' correctly?  Why do words go in one ear and out the other? Is an emotional tween gonna get hooked, I dunno?  Why am I the only one with a poor attention span here?  Etc.

Tentative solutions: A STRONGER vox vibe, a swifter tempo, a hook, much less intro, more rhymes, less run-on sentences, easy-to-understand words, more beatz etc.   Else, I await your next excellent offering.
JMO/IMHO.

Hi Bob O, Thanks man. Glad you picked mix2:) But, man does soundclick screw up the fidelity. Thanks Bob. Dig your new tune.

Hey Daryl, Thanks a lot for the kind words. Yea, I always have a tough time sitting the vocal just right. I tend to lower it a little so the listener will turn it up:)
Glad you like the chords too.

Thanks Mr. Clean. Appreciate it.

Robbay...... Mix 2 baby, Mix 2.....

Hi Danny, Thanks for droppin by and the great comments. 
Yea, ya know, I brought up the MP3 next to the wav, and I don't know what I did. Sounds real muddy. 

I've got so many friggin mixes though and actually, I'm not sure which wav I actually used:) I need a better system of filing. 
This was like "Long way 7c cut intro 9_25_12_WL_eq. cwp" And that only tells me not as much as I'd like. 

Maybe I'll revisit and lower the guits and vocs and re-master. Thanks.

Hey John. Wow man. glad you liked it so much. cool. If you think of what you wanted to ask, let me know. Thanks John.

Hey Philip....LOL. OK man. It might be an acquired taste. Thanks for listening and commenting and puking. 

timidi


Oh. Geez. I get it. Sorry. DOH....
Thanks for the bump Frank:)

I said(typed) it was not a bump...
 
but then, I did say I loved both versions...