Pat, you are too kind. You've given a humbling assessment and I am quite grateful you have taken time to listen, critique and revive this song. Thank you for the nice words. As for the mandolin, it totally captured the feel and sound I was looking for.

As for the vocals, there is only so much that can be done there. Think in terms of trying to maintain a 25 year old car driven continuously by a college student and never receiving any TLC or regular maintenance. That's my voice. However, I will admit greater care could have been taken by me to intonation in my cut and pasting between two vocal takes as I only achieved clarity to some words.

This was meant to be a simple, grass-roots level song and that somehow made it through to many here on the forum in spite of my vocal somersaults and mixing anomalies.

The somersaults and anomalies are being examined to see if they can be made to be less distracting to the song, letting the good parts still shine through.

Charlie

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