This is excellent!!!!!! Crazy good. One thing, if you're going for authenticity, you might want to lose the cymbal/hi hat sound and push harder on the snare beats.
Thanks! Love the feedback. I've been listening to this a ton and taking notes for the final mix, and definitely agree that the snare's more hidden than I meant.
Could you elaborate on your hi-hat comment? The only percussion is finger snaps, coconut shells, and temple blocks in the verse, and snare/bass and castanets in the chorus/break/outro. I'm going to add some more castanets to the verse (up front in the first four bars of the TSS album cut), and maybe bury them a bit more elsewhere. Could that be what you're talking about? (I also feel like the 12-string needs to lose some high end because the picking is kinda adding an unintended phantom percussion feel.)