A soft, major-key, 3-part acoustic harmony on guitar, with vocals by a friend named Andrew. The lyrics are from a Ralph Waldo Emerson poem, and are out of copyright. The music was all written by me.

Comments on vocals welcome... not mine, so be as harsh as you want!

You know this sounds an awful lot like a piece I recorded many many years ago... except this is much much better

About the vocals: is Andrew a haggard old man? he sings that way, though his voice doesn't seem whiskeyed up enough for that 
I like that style, it does seem to fit the music (although my strongly resembling piece went without - ), it went slightly out of tune, hence the impression.

dreamy piece. beautiful. I'll say no more.

Nice, nice. But there's a quite loud noise starting from about 2:30.

Andrew's voice fits greatly with the tune.  It would be better if you would have used a keyboard along with the acoustic guitar.

First let me say that I like this song alot. I listened through a couple times while writing this.

Your guitar parts in the intro, while wonderfully composed, don't seem to overlap each other that well... Around .45 there seems to be a battle for which part is controlling the flow of the song and which parts are coloring it. My personal suggestion would be to dumb down the fingerpicking rhythms during the strong leads prior to the verse and let them come back in when the vocals start.

Again, This is me trying to offer my best criticism, I really do think it's a great song.

Vocals sound good, but could use a bit less echo. The guitar parts don't seem to ever converge and kind of wander by themselves; there's no consistent musical direction to the song (throughout the song) - it sounds like it's about to consolidate at the end, but then it's over.

Despite the aimlessness, the sunniness of the guitar parts lends to a relaxing vibe, and I enjoyed listening to it.

Really nice composition. I have to agree with Clusterone's opinion on the guitars, there is a tug of war going on. I'm not really sure what to suggest as far as picking to make it flow better. Did you listen to the other guitar/s while you recorded the parts, that might help.
The vox are decent but a little too much echo, if you have a room size in your reverb, turn it down as much as possible.
It's really well mixed and played. Very impressed.

i like the flow and general ideas, although I acknowledge the others comments about the guitar parts fighting each other.  makes it sound messy.  you could also do with working on the timing - in some places the guitars sound out of time with each other ... like a really under-rehearsed band playing live.  keep working on the ideas.

just wanted you all to know...

im gonna get rid of this guitar part part:

e-------------------------------------------------
b-----9-7----9-7--------------------------------
g---7-------7----------------etc.---------------
d-0-------0--------------------------------------
a-------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------

that part, with the other 2, is just too much. thnx for the comments- i thought that other than the vox, this song was is the bag... but simplifying the harmony (i really dont know much about harmony) could go a long way!

thanks again!

This would be a good song if you get help with it or practice it alot before the final cut. The timeing is way, way off, but i would like to hear a final version of this.