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When Letha heard the Winter Stroll jam (I posted that earlier here), she wanted to know if there were any lyrics yet. I gave her a concept line and she ran with it and wrote some mighty fine lyrics. Of course I am using the Nashville rule that since I was in the room serving coffee when the lyrics were written, I get to be in the credits (hah!). Feel free to listen and comment. There are some issues with it here and there, but I've gone about as far as my recording/mixing skills can take me. It's mixed under headphones, so it'll sound the best there. MP3: http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7270988************************************************ You’re Finally Home (c) Allen/Harper/Emmrich 2009 Letha Allen: Vocals Clay Harper: Open G Acoustic Guitar, Bass and Rhythm Loops Kevin Emmrich: Electric Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals Scott Vestal*: Banjo Wanda Vick*: Fiddle Tom Keenlyside*: Sax * Scott, Wanda and Tom courtesy of PG Music
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I like the tune, my only comment is that is overly compressed to my ear, and it don't sound like it is Soundclick's fault this time. Good playing and message, I like it! 
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Ditto liked the tune. If you want any help mixing I'm sure there are many around here who would do it. Mastering matters with Rharv and Oren have been my savior.
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This sounds like a very accomplished piece of work to me.
I like the way the banjo dirves it along throughout. I like the lyrics.
The lead vox is bold and strong.
The only points that maybe could be improved are
- a tune that is just a bit limp (in the verse)
- the instrumental section. (from 2'10) Doesn't sound like the sax and gtr are trading, but playing different songs
- just a little too much going on at the end, with a new sound coming in at pretty well every line
But im still mightily impressed!!
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Hey thanks for listening and all the comments. I posted a newer mix where I just tried to reduce the time the banjo and fiddle were playing at the same time. Maybe that will help a bit.
jcspro40: Probably right. The vocal lines I got via email were going above 0db so I added some limiting there and overall -- probably squashed it too much.
edbulmer: Yea, I'm pretty much a novice at mixing -- plus I only have headphones right now. Maybe my next purchase (a little bit down the road) will be some nice recording monitors. Unless, of course, I have to spend all my money on new RealTrack offerings!
mglinert: I'm well known for trying to throw the kitchen sink into things. I'll probably try and improve it some more, but for now I have to set it aside. I've lost all objectivity!
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I like the song. I agree with the others that it's non-stop strong instrumentally. The secret to making instruments and voices work together is in how you lower the volumes while they're singing. An old DJ trick. Before compressors came along the DJ, while making his commercials, would grab hold of the playback volume control and move it to louder or softer, depending on whether or not he was speaking. During the voice pauses the music would come up loud and strong but when he started speaking he would drage the volume down to about half way, then dance it back up. And that's how you edit volumes on tracks, unless you have a compressor that will do that for you.
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I didn't hear the original version , but that was slammin' good to me. The mix seemed fine and Letha's vocal was great. My only quibble was I thought the sax solo may have gone on too long for the flow of the song. Great work Kevin and associates!!!
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Real nice tune and performance overall. Only one small nit pick as the arrangement for me at least, was stuck in-between genres (and that may be a good thing that will broaden your audience, I don't know) but to me I thought there was a minor feud going on between the soulful blues styling’s of Leath's vocal, the guitar solo, the fiddle solo and sax Vs. the banjo and acoustic guitar. Maybe just the good tips above i.e. cutting back a bit on some of the backing instruments would solve that minor issue for me.
I am listening (#3) as I type and the better news is that my old ears like it better each time I hear it. Oh yeah, I would love to hear Leath do some Norah Jones or just belt out some up-tempo blues.
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Russell: Now that you mention that, I hear some places where I could have worked the volume a little more. These things always seem clearer AFTER you release the song!
PeteG: The sax is what drew Letha to the the tune -- but yes it might be a little long. Letha does sound great here, thanks for listening and commenting.
Danny: Sometime the cross-genre works and sometimes it just sounds like, well, cross-genre (LOL). It's busy -- there are a total of 15 tracks in there counting the doubling I did here and there. Thanks for stopping by.
Kevin
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