Thanks, Kay-Lynn and John, for listening and for the feedback — I really appreciate it.
I hear you on the intro. In this case it’s about 13 seconds, which felt reasonable to me for a country-rock track. I played my keyboard guitar in the intro, and I was fortunate enough to have two excellent guitarists on this project, so I wanted to give them a bit of space to shine — which also explains the longer outro.
That said, I totally get that shorter intros and outros work better for many listeners, and I appreciate you pointing it out.