great song, Rob, and I can deffo hear Mark's touch on this.  I enjoyed it's harkening back to the 70s...got a little "Tiny Dancer" off of it here and there before the chorus.

Some crits (as always, take them as they come):
-vocals are buried a bit, as per Herb and Tim. I think the reverb you are using needs a huge cut from the bottom end (maybe 500hz or higher)
-the placement of the dobro (?) in the intro could be moved off to the side so it doesn't clash with the acoustics (which are too loud the entire tune and require more HPFing)
-the swells at :35 are terrific
-there is a snare hit at 1:28 that sounds completely different from the rest of the hits and kinda interrupts the feel
-the string things at :50-53 are a great idea but they are too crisp: I would cut the highs pretty significantly to give them some distance
-the string riff at 1:19 sounds keyboard-y
-snare has little presence...it kinda comes and goes...needs more compression and some reverb to de-mono-ize it
-agree there is too much going on in the lead portion...I would get rid of some elements or do some drastic eq cuts if you want to leave them all in, and/or do some hard panning to make room for the lead
-the cymbals are too loud and in your face...I would do a lot of HPF on them to just make them fit

All in all, a stellar outing.

You guys make a great team.  Robby, your normal great vox and song-writing shine again.  Mark, I enjoyed your additions too.

Oh, and Robby, you're a piano player!  ;)

Nice song, however, I did not care for any of the drums. Sounded muffled to me and yes the cymbals were no low end or not really there just sizzle in high frequencies to me. Of course every playback system is different so I mention what was in my opinion a determent to the song with the drum sounds.

Robby,

Thank you for sending me this song to work on and thanks a pant load for wasting my time, dude! 
You hadn't even decided where you wanted my fiddle part to be yet you went on and finished it without me and didn't have the decency to let me know.  Please don't bother to send me any more of your songs to work on as I really don't have time for your nonsense. Just sayin'. 

As for the mix, I agree, it needs work.

I listened... but I'll have to comment later...
right now I'm watching the Dem Convention...

more to come...

Scotty, I'm sorry :-( I know you're busy, it just moved on through the process after a couple of weeks and just happened. Would have been nice with fiddles? Because it has a pop country vibe to me? And that's what I was hearing in my head when I wrote it. But I didn't want to push, it's just a different flavor. Chocolate is good? Butter Pecan is good too. No offence was intended, please forgive me. Darn, I'm missing the dem convention? I wanted to see BJ (Bill Jefferson) Clinton!

Please don't be angry with me, it makes me physically ill "literally" when people are angry with me... My music is sad enough already.

Mark is tweaking the mix quite a bit based on the feedback (thank you mix masters!) I'll put a new mix up Thurs evening hopefully. Thanks again, with specifics to follow. Unless you're really really good at it? You can't really do it without input/feedback? Mark is really good at it, but others here are also, so we appreciate all of your opinions. 

Robby/Mark this is such a fantastic song. So many elements played so well that keep the track busy with style.

I listened quite a few times as i enjoyed it so much, and i think this my new favourite of yours Robby, a great collaboration. 

I really hope you both create lots more music together for many years to come.

Mark.

The Band19


Scotty, I'm sorry :-( I know you're busy, it just moved on through the process after a couple of weeks and just happened. Would have been nice with fiddles? Because it has a pop country vibe to me? And that's what I was hearing in my head when I wrote it. But I didn't want to push, it's just a different flavor. Chocolate is good? Butter Pecan is good too. No offence was intended, please forgive me. Darn, I'm missing the dem convention? I wanted to see BJ (Bill Jefferson) Clinton!

Please don't be angry with me, it makes me physically ill "literally" when people are angry with me... My music is sad enough already.

Apology accepted. 

Mr Markno999 did a pretty extensive edit based on a lot of the excellent feedback here. Thank you all for your input. I am not the guy to tell him if it's better or not, I liked the 1st version :-) I'll be able to listen to others on-line tomorrow as I've been having some issues this week which will be resolved tomorrow AM.