Hi olddude,

I really like your honest style of singing. I'd keep that. Compression, techie gimmicks
don't really enhance a folk performance.

I don't agree that it sounds like Puff the Magic Drag-in. The F chord changes it.

I like the song pretty much but here's what I like about your style. You go back to the roots and when you do you leave the singer/songwriter stuff behind. You can write a plain tune in the manner of Woody or Jimmy Rodgers and that's missing in today's music.
Steve Earle sometimes comes up with that and Utah, as well.

I don't completely buy the country boy/city girl thing because there are too many country girls in the city,these days, and vicey versey.

But you are one of the honest ones and that's what I like about your style.

Had some friends over yesterday to the house and we sang Carter Family songs and it's surprising how singable they are and how they hold up. Woody, Jimmy R, Utah, Vernon Dalhart (who had a birthday on Apl. 6), "River Dave" McEnery, ....they wrote about
what's out in the world rather than about internal bleeding. Gentleman Gene Autry sang those songs earlier "The Death of Mother Jones", then there was Carson Robison, Tony Kraber....you know these folks. Straight from the shoulder, no pretense.

It's a "tradition devoutly to be wished" to butcher Hamlet's sylloquy.

But keep your honest style. It's refreshing in these days of slicky pretense.

Frank