Gregory, HI!

NO disrespect to you, in fact the opposite, as what I'm about to suggest to you might be for your own good, (in my opinion).

OK, here are my thoughts as to your involvement with the singer on the first song, and to which I didn't need to do, (but it does), adds to Jim's points.

In all due respect and care for YOU....Please consider another artist to work with. You're only as good as the weakest parts of how your songs are presented, and by what "artist".

To my judgement, it might not be worth your time to work on his issues. There MUST be many artists out there with a better sense of pitch, a better persona, and most importantly, as to having better quality sound of voice, (an appealing, attractive "voice"). Then, any issues from those points on could be worked on to fine tune everything, to have it all be better in the longrun, for all concerned. Yes? Maybe? No?

To put it as someone not being his friend there in the crowd, or drinking, I cringed,,,and that's not like me. So.... he was simply not pleasing or compelling at all to want to hear his "worked on" version later. Sorry.

I think you did him a disservice by giving that link. And by connection, maybe you too. Not a good thing, unless I am but a few of the same thinking. For you, I hope I am wrong. Really.

Thanks for understanding that because we are close here, all us long time JPFers, that we want to call it how we hear it.

Something to consider, that's all. Maybe your strengths are not selecting artists, but songwriting is your strength. No?

Johnny