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Speaker 17: I love that that is called stay anywhere, And that
is Jesse Rutstein, who is here with us, and we're
going to be speaking with in just a moment, and
he's gonna play a couple songs live with US, but
or live for us, I should say, but if you
are listening live on Saturday, I hope you're traveling safely.
We've got some winter weather and was very surprised to
wake up to that. But this is Matt Connorton Unleashed
and we are live from the studios of wm NH
ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire.
Of course, also you can stream the show from anywhere
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Speaker 18: Et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 17: Today is a Saturday, April twelve, two thy twenty five.
Jenny is here of course at the news table accounted
for and let me get that mic up there. So
we've got Jesse Rutztina.
Speaker 18: Is here with us. Hello Jesse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how's it going good?
Speaker 18: I gotta boost this up a little bit.
Speaker 17: We have to kind of sound check live on the air,
but yeah, welcome to the show.
Speaker 18: It's great to have you on.
Speaker 17: So we met you at the grand reopening of Terminus
Underground back in how many months it becomes a blur,
I don't know how many.
Speaker 3: Months ago, January, I think, yeah, it was a yeah January.
Speaker 17: Yeah, that sounds right, yeah, yeah, and no, we were
very impressed. I love your thank you absolutely absolutely, and
and the songs are great. We have we played that
studio track and we're gonna be playing another one toward
the end of our conversation today too, which is a
world radio premiere or something that we'll talk about later.
So really looking forward to that and looking forward to
hearing you play live. But that tell us about because
we were talking off air too about a collaborator of
yours who someone who has been on the show, although
ironically not talking about music but talking about other subjects.
Speaker 3: So he's on a long time ago. But Caleb, Yeah, yeah,
Caleb die Er. He is my probably my main producer,
co producer, because we both work on the stuff together,
been in a few bands together over the years. I
hooked up with Tree Street's Inc. Is the studio that
we work out of, executive producers Dave Patterson, who makes
all this happen for us, and me and Caleb hooked
up years ago. We were in the Jes Sols band together,
and then we were in a short lived band called
Stay in the end, and you know, both of us
are just working working on the studio together, and we
did a bunch of tracks. The track that we're about
We're gonna play later is actually a song that's been
three years in the making. We recorded tracks years ago
and it kind of gave some rebirth to it. So yeah,
he's kind of like been my partner throughout this whole thing.
It's definitely the EP is going to be a solo release,
but it definitely takes a village, you know.
Speaker 18: Right right, yeah, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 17: So where do you record, like you record at his
studio or where do you record?
Speaker 16: So the studio is operated own and operated by Dave Patterson.
Speaker 3: It's called Tree Streets, gotcha. It's on Vine Street in Nashua.
And the things that Dave has done with this place,
it's a it's a full studio and a rehearsal space
for other bands, similar to what Terminus Underground does. It's
kind of a place where we can get in and
uh not break the bank to record and and put
together some really great tracks. There's so much talent Dave
as an engineer, Caleb as engineer, musician, you know, and
producer as well. So the three of us have been
working closely together for years, about four or five years now.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 16: So it's full studio at the sound booth, you know everything.
It's not much to look at on the outside, but
when you go in anytime somebody new comes down, they're.
Speaker 1: Like, wow, this place is great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we have and then there's a number
of bands that you know, rent space in there and
stuff too. It's not so much as a performance as
as like kind of a studio, the studio side of
local music.
Speaker 18: Okay, okay, very cool.
Speaker 17: And so how did your are you from Nashua?
Speaker 3: Is I'm from Nashville?
Speaker 18: You're from Is that?
Speaker 17: How your your association with Eleanor and Andre from Terminus
in New Hampshire Underground came about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Eleanor hit me up. I think that I forget
exactly what happened. I think they had to cancel a
or they just heard about me. But there was a
show last fourth of July. It was a veterans benefit
and they asked me if i'd like to go do it.
Oh yeah, yeah, we met, we hit it off, and
then they asked me to come play at Terminus and
I've been down there a few times. Great, great place,
you know, great, great place for local musicians and artists.
I met, uh the person who's doing all my photography
down there, Crafty k. She's she's I met her at
Terminus too, and okay, you know. So it's it's and
what we're trying to do at Tree Streets is like
the studio side of showcasing what they're what they're doing
in nashauas So it's really it's it's I really love
those guys. They're really awesome.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'll be playing down there on the seventh
of June.
Speaker 18: Oh excellent, Yeah, excellent. Yeah.
Speaker 17: We So when we went to that, so, yeah, that
was the first time Jenny and I had seen you
and Quincy Lord, who had just been on the show.
I think uh m'd have been on that morning, no,
or maybe.
Speaker 3: It was definitely it was weird because I checked you
out right after we booked the show and Quincy had
been on because I just I just met quin that night.
Speaker 18: Yeah. Yeah, he's amazing, he's great.
Speaker 17: The thing that I tell everybody about Terminus is the
first time you walk into it, it's like it's like
walking into another world. It's like, uh, you know, what
I mean, it's so unique and so interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you get there and you know, you look
and you're like, am I in the right spot?
Speaker 18: Yeah?
Speaker 17: And they do a great job with the sound there too, fantastic, Yeah,
Andre And I think Katie is that her name, the
sound engineer who's there a lot too.
Speaker 3: I think it's not really sure, I think it's I
think I think it's Katie.
Speaker 18: Yeah, they do it.
Speaker 17: They do a great job, and they get a they
get a great sound out of the place, no doubt,
no doubt.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 17: And we need, you know, we need as many places
like that as possible that are really into supporting local
music and also you know, being able to have national
acts to come through, like Jenny was able to work
with Eleanor to book Green Jello there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I missed that show. Does it work in that night?
But my buddy went to that show and brought me
an auto graph shirt from from the bands, because you know,
I remember those guys from when I was a kid.
Speaker 17: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 18: Do you play out a lot? Do you play a
lot of live shows?
Speaker 3: I was, I was doing a lot of shows. I've
pretty much been laser focused in the studio right now.
Throughout the last few years, I've been trying to put
together a number of different projects and the you know,
I work with different bands and and different artists, some
amazing artists that that actually appear on the upcoming EP.
Oh cool, Yeah, absolutely, but it at the beginning of
this year, I decided that I had so much material
that we've just compiled over the last couple of years,
and I have all these new songs that I wanted
to do. So I was like, all right, I'm going
to try to do this ground up. I've never promoted
myself as a solo artist before, and so I put
I mean, there's a song that's coming out that's a duet,
you know, and the one that we're going to play later,
Dear Baby Jean has some amazing, amazing musicians on it,
and yeah, so I was just like, you.
Speaker 16: Know what, I'm going to promote it as a solo thing.
I'm doing all the online stuff that you're supposed to do,
which is extremely tedious. Yes, the music industry has changed
the way that artists get themselves out there, but I
can tell you that I never thought I'd be on
TikTok as much as I have lately.
Speaker 3: With this single.
Speaker 16: Kidding, kidding, but yeah, So I am booking through the
summer and you know.
Speaker 3: And going forward as and I'm going to be promoting
it as a solo thing the show. I'm doing it terminus.
I have a couple of great players that are going
to be playing with me, and then I'm playing a
gig at the end of June the sorry, it's the
summer kickoff at the Auburn Pits June twenty second. Faith
and Band is going to be the liner. Nice and
you know other Bit tumble Toes, Glitter Tooth and the
Whole Loaf were also going to be playing. I'm gonna
be opening the show and I got some great musicians
playing that one with me too.
Speaker 18: So it's standing here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's but that's all I have for the
live stuff coming up right now. It's gonna be laser
focused on studio getting the EP out. That way, I
have something to promote when I really do get out
there and start.
Speaker 18: Gigging exactly and when is the EP coming out?
Speaker 3: The goal? The goal is June tenth. Okay, we're dropping
the next single on May first and June tenth. I
just there's some finishing touches. You know, different musicians are
supposed to be coming in and doing a couple of
things for the last song. So wow, I'm hoping to
get it all done by then, but it'll be five
songs and then after that there'll be a full length.
And don't ask me a date on that one.
Speaker 17: Oh okay, so you're already planning a full length.
Speaker 16: I am planning the full length. But it's I really
want to see that stay anywhere.
Speaker 3: When I released it, you know, I did a ton
of research on how to promote and what people are
doing now to get heard, and I'm getting I'm getting
some views and I'm getting some uh some some positivity
coming back from it. But uh, I really like it's
almost like I'm working through the kinks on this one
as I prepare to really push the next five songs.
Speaker 17: Okay, okay, no that makes sense. Yeah, uh do you
want to play I'm down here?
Speaker 18: You play live? I know, I know Jenny is too
on the audience shore yeah uh.
Speaker 17: What uh yeah, I'll let you go ahead and grab
your guitar and then uh while Jesse's doing that. Uh,
if you are listening live, of course, we have Jesse
Rutstein here with us live in studio on this snowy
Saturday morning. We were very surprised to wake up to
uh a lot of snow on the ground and it
was still coming down and the roads were messy and uh,
just right back to winter. But uh, let's see, let
me turn that up. But oh that sounds nice in
the headphone. See that sounds nice. Yeah, that sounds really good.
What do you what are you gonna play for us?
Speaker 3: There's a song called Superhero Toys. I have four amazing,
amazing children, Gia, Junior, Jackson, and Reenie. Her name is Maureen,
but we call her Reenie.
Speaker 18: Oh okay.
Speaker 3: This is a song I wrote a long time ago
when I found out I was having my second son.
And it's a song about my my first son, and
and like how nerve racking it is to find out
you're having a boy, and all the thoughts that go
through your mind. I have to raise a man. You
got to teach him respect, you got to teach him
to be good, and you know, and and so the
first verse is about that, and then the rest of
the song is about how great he is.
Speaker 16: And then his his brother, Jackson was born how great
of a big brother, and and wow. So it's like
yeah and yeah, I'm really proud of all my all
my babies.
Speaker 18: All right, very good? And what was it called again?
Speaker 3: It's called superhero toys.
Speaker 18: Superhero toys? All right?
Speaker 16: I mad loss and these tears are of joy. When
she looked up to me and said, the swan's a boy.
Speaker 1: Kind of funny how.
Speaker 16: To fear and the love of a sun stop you
to think of the things you have done, because I
want him to be strong, but be sweet to his mother.
Speaker 1: Abolia, brave with no fear of another.
Speaker 16: And don't want him to love me as much as
he can, because it's my job to.
Speaker 1: Make him live. And so is you, my angel. But
this one's for the boys. To the truck say, and
the trains and the.
Speaker 16: Superhero choice to fish in and wishing we could stay
up farm night until mom comes. Turns out live said,
don't worry, boys, it's all gonna be all ride. He
gets the show. And then his sister.
Speaker 1: Gets away with ball than he does.
Speaker 16: When she looks in me that way, he said, hey, Dad,
why can't I get wood?
Speaker 3: I want?
Speaker 1: I said, you know better, son, So let's have some.
Speaker 16: Furs, and so it's to my Angel.
Speaker 1: But this one's for the boys to.
Speaker 16: The truck, say on the trains and the Superhero Choice
to fishing and wishing we could stay up all night
until Mom comes turns out. Lie said, don't worry, boys,
It's all gonna be all right.
Speaker 1: And I can't believe how much you have grown.
Speaker 16: I'm proud of you, son, and I hope that you
know there's another boy coming.
Speaker 1: I hope that she can help me to make him
a man. Long man loss again, Morti is a joy.
Speaker 16: She looked up at me and said, it's another boy.
And I know that you'll love him as much as
you can, because it's my job to me him man.
Speaker 1: It's a job to.
Speaker 16: Make him man.
Speaker 1: And so oh, here's to my Angel.
Speaker 16: But this one's for the boys to the truck, say
on the trains and the super Hero Toys to fish
in and wishing we could stay a bond nine until
Mom comes and turns out the live.
Speaker 1: Let's see it. Don't worry, boys, it's all gonna be
all right.
Speaker 3: Oh that is beautiful. That is beautiful, Thank you, thank
you very much.
Speaker 17: That is Superhero Toys, performed live by Jesse Rudstein here
in studio on this snowy Saturday morning, Matt connorton unleased.
We're live from the studios of w m n H
ninety five point three FM. And uh, let's see my
art by KF in the chatroom, says Rocket.
Speaker 3: See that is uh that she did all of all
the photography for the album.
Speaker 18: Oh that's who did them?
Speaker 17: Okay, Yeah, she's really great, outstanding. Yeah, absolutely, very cool,
very cool. I'm curious about, uh, like, how how did
you learn to sing? Because you've got a certain there's
a rottenness to your voice that I really like that
I think, and I think it works perfectly with your material.
Like did you ever take lessons? Are you self taught?
Speaker 3: Or the only lessons I ever took wereun drums? The singing,
The singing has it's been you know, I thought I
could sing for a long time, and then I started
recording and I was like, wow, I really need to
work on this. Yeah, for sure, it's it's uh so.
My my influences are everything from BB King to Michael
Jackson to Metallica, I mean and but and the Beatles
and everything in between. And and I had I found
out early on that a little bit of rasp can
hide the fact that I don't know a lot of notes.
I used to play the blues a lot. That's how
I really learned how to play. Me and my friends
just in high school, and I played a lot of
blues and then the classic rock with classic rock, which
I guess is now oldies. But yeah, I always really
liked the raspy kind of voice. Yeah, ken hits, you know.
Speaker 16: I and through the years, through you know, recording and
listening back, and I always joke like I hate my voice,
you know, because I listened to it more than anybody
else studio and whatnot. But yeah, I definitely, of course
I appreciate it, and it's uh, I definitely don't want
to say it's years of practice and lots of smoking.
Speaker 3: But but yeah, so I I you know, it took
me a while to kind of like be like, all right,
this is my my thing, this is my voice.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 3: I have friends and bands back in the day who
were like, why are you always doing the raspy thing?
Like you have a really nice, clear voice too, and
and that does that does come through on the record,
you know, But.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I try to be as diverse as possible because
my influences range.
Speaker 3: They're just all over the road. Yeah, So you know,
I'm trying to put you know, there's that one which
is the sweet song, and then the one you played,
which is kind of like the outlaw acoustic. Yeah, and
then Dear Baby Gene is like a hard rock and
tune with amazing guitar work done by Peter Davis and
who's a great local musician as well. So yeah, I'm
trying to like bring a little bit of everything. But
the one thing that does hold it all together, I
at least in my opinion, is the voice. Okay, you know, yeah,
I'm trying to put HAMM and B three organs on
one and then we have a shaker on the other one.
It's just acoustic, you know. So it's like it's it's
what holds it together. Is that familiar voice.
Speaker 17: When you sing with with that rasp? Is that something
you do consciously or does that just happen because you
mentioned too you do also sing on some tracks with
a cleaner voice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I control it the best I can
do it. I do it on purpose because I can
hit you know, lovely notes too. Yeah, Yeah, especially when
I'm doing the acoustic gigs, you got to kind of
do that. But yeah, it just it just it comes
naturally to me. And it's like a guitarist learning how
to control his feedback, you know. Yeah, you know, sometimes
it's cool. Sometimes it's like you just turn it down
right right.
Speaker 18: Now.
Speaker 17: You mentioned so you you used to play in a band. Actually,
you mentioned you played in a band with Caleb.
Speaker 3: I played in a couple bands with Caleb. We met,
I believe around two thousand, two thousand and one with
the Jess Olsen band. Jess Olsen's another amazing musician, musician
from the area. She's Jessica's Songbird is probably how anybody
would know her.
Speaker 17: Oh yeah, she's really great. I think I interviewed Jess
Olson once.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't doubt it.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I wouldn't.
Speaker 17: It becomes a blurb, but I think a long time
ago I interviewed Jess Olson.
Speaker 3: That's very that surprises me because she's really really memorable.
But she's Yeah, she's awesome, And the band just kind
of went separate ways. Me and uh me and Jess
had different ideas of what we were going to do
with the music going forward. After being together for a
couple of years and when when the band split.
Speaker 16: The guys that were, you know, uh, Alec Philip Brown
was our bass player, and Seth Seedars, who appears on
on some tracks on the on the record as well.
Speaker 3: Uh played drums.
Speaker 16: And we were like, hey, you want to just keep
jamming and doing some rock stuff.
Speaker 3: I was like, well, are we going to find a
new singer, you know, and they're like, why don't you
just sing? So we did a few gigs and recorded
some really really wonderful music as a group, and that
was about two or three years ago, and now here
we are where some some of those songs that I
thought that I was just going to scrap because that
been you know, people have schedule, different goals and whatnot.
And when that ended, I thought, oh, well I lost
a couple of tunes. But I ended up you know,
going back in and putting some stuff together. And yeah,
you know this one song called on Your Toes, which
originally was a song about a girl and I just
for whatever reason, I'm not gonna be playing that song anymore,
but the drums were just so good in it. And
on Your Toes was a song that I wrote years
and years ago about my daughter who's an amazing dancer,
and it's a song about her doing getting up on
toe shoes when she was in ballet for the first time.
And it's a really nice song. But I was like, Wow,
those drums are gonna work really cool. So I went
in and cut up. I told Seth. I was like,
I'm gonna be cutting up your drum track, but I'm
gonna be using it. Yeah, So he hasn't even heard
his drum track yet.
Speaker 18: Oh yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: Cool that one. I can't wait. I'll be playing that
one for you today. Took that one. I can't wait
to release because that's a really cool tune.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I have some saxophone on it.
Speaker 18: Oh, very cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, the forgotten rock and roll instrum.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 3: What was it that brought you after playing in bands?
Speaker 17: What was it that brought you to wanting to do
a solo thing but where you're still obviously collaborating with
a lot of musicians.
Speaker 3: Well, Number one, I've never done it before. Yeah, it's
always been a dream of mine. But I find that, like,
especially in this area, it's really really tough to get
out there and promote original music. And if I'm going
to start a band, nine times out of ten, you're
gonna be playing three hour cover gigs.
Speaker 16: Not that I have anything against that, not to think
anything's wrong with that. There are some freaking workhorses in
this town, oh yeah, in the area who are out
there every night killing it, bringing live music to the area.
Speaker 18: Yep.
Speaker 3: It's just I want to do my thing. I want
to get on some bills that are promoting original music,
and I realize in order to do that, I'm going
to have to have that original music available. So I
kind of instead of playing in bands that will be
funded by playing three hour nights at a bar, I'm
gonna go the other route and try to promote this
first and then get out there and get some opening
slots for some bigger bands and that kind of thing.
At least that's the goal.
Speaker 18: Yeah. No, I think that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, Well, do you want to play that song
you're just talking about it?
Speaker 18: I'd love to.
Speaker 17: Hear another one, And if you are listening live, if
you're just joining us, Jesse Rutstein, it's here with us
live in studio on this Saturday morning here and sounding amazing.
Speaker 3: So that one, the last one I played was about
my son this is about my daughter. I don't know
if you know anything about dance, but I was a
dance dad. And okay, when a kid gets company, it's
like being one of the all stars.
Speaker 18: Oh, okay, gotcha.
Speaker 3: She became a company dancer. And this is about the
first time I saw it, because it takes a couple
of years to get up on those toe shoes. And
you know when you picture a ballerina like like a
music box or something, and they're on that toe, that's
what that's what the song's about. Okay, time I actually
saw her do it.
Speaker 18: Okay, very cool, You're sorry, No worries.
Speaker 1: Besides, they can't be real with the light up when
they look at me. The yard would be ideal.
Speaker 3: To walk and.
Speaker 5: Touching the trees. Every touch tree saw.
Speaker 16: You dancing on your toe. I knew what they man
when they said it's to watch them grow. When you
first dance with me, I had old jeans and capture clothes.
Speaker 5: She said, I love you, Mom.
Speaker 1: Now I can't believe she's really a lucky man. I
can never be.
Speaker 3: I see a.
Speaker 5: Woman, not a girl.
Speaker 3: And I can't.
Speaker 16: Remember the time of sigh from the day you came
into my life.
Speaker 1: That had been so Friday.
Speaker 16: When I saw you dancing on your tools, I knew
what they man when they.
Speaker 1: Said it's a watch them grow. When you first dance
with me, I had to hold your hands, you catch
your clumb.
Speaker 10: She said. I love.
Speaker 13: She said, I love you more. When I saw you're
dancing and on your soul, I knew what very man
when they said it's hot loo man, saw you're dancing.
Are you telling me so what they now when they
said it's.
Speaker 1: To watch him, to watch you grow, to watch him?
Speaker 3: Very nice, very nice, Thank you so much.
Speaker 17: Absolutely, Jesse Rutsteene is here with us live in studio
on this Saturday morning.
Speaker 18: And by the way, uh.
Speaker 17: So Philippe is in the chat room, says loving it, Jesse.
And also Rob Dion, who does a show here called
through the stage door, was inquiring about your last name
and his rut scene, so he's obviously a fan.
Speaker 3: All right, that's r T S T E.
Speaker 17: I N yes, yes, and uh let's see also I
see uh Marian Banish, of course, our good friend and
a big supporter of the show and all the shows
here at w M and HS in there also, and
we have somebody listening from Uganda. Hello, welcome. So that's
good news, absolutely absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 17: So the so the EP well went into the decision
to do an EP because I you were saying, so
the EP will come out June is what you're shooting for,
but then you've but then you've also got an album
in mind.
Speaker 3: Pretty much time and you know, the studios utilized by
by a number of people. My day is Sunday, so
I'm down all day Sunday, and I you know, I
spend time and I record some other people too. I
teach lessons out of there.
Speaker 18: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean I only have one student and one potential
at the time coming up.
Speaker 16: But I love, you know, I work. I work right
with kids. Yeah yeah, I got a bunch of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know, and I really I love I
love watching the young the younger generation get into to
rock and roll, which I actually think is really happening
right now. Ye seeing so many kids and it's funny,
like my daughter's gonna kill me for telling this story,
but she wears a deaf leopard shirt and I'm like,
name one song and she's like, it's a cool shirt, dad,
And I'm advertising the band, all right, it's all about
the marketing, right right, All right, cool, Okay, she's so,
she's twenty, she's twenty one. Her name is Giovanna. She
actually she's involved too because she's helping me with the
marketing because I excellent, I did not know how to
use Instagram or TikTok. She had to like come over
and show me.
Speaker 17: Yeah you know, yeah, Oh that's really cool. It's cool
that she's helping you with that. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah.
I was curious because there's there's so many different ways
to release music now.
Speaker 3: Yes, and and so I'm going to distro kid out
Stay Anywhere is available on all streaming platforms, uh and
and all of this will be But as far as
your original question, why did I decide to do the
it's I wanted to do a single or two and
then drop four and and try to get you know,
I really want. I missed going out and grabbing an
album and going home and listening to it back to back.
And I could either sit here and act like an
old man and say back in my day, or I
could do what they're doing today because I'm not going
to get anywhere marketing to people my age or just
like my Facebook friends, you know. So so I think
I've been, like I said, I was doing some research
and you know, private research and whatever, and it looks
like people are getting really successful this way. So I
figured why not throw my you know, I got some
good songs here? Why not my name and the hat?
Speaker 17: Yeah, no, it makes sense, it makes sense. The time
goes quickly. Do you want to play one more? I'm
dying to hear another live one. I want to make
sure that's going and then and then after that we'll
talk about the new the new single, Insure and whatnot.
But Jesse Rutstein is here with us live in studio,
and uh love loving these so much, so awesome.
Speaker 18: What are you? What are you gonna play for us?
Speaker 3: This one's actually called Picture of Our Hands, song I
wrote last year, which turned into a duet on the epy.
It's a male female and I brought my my wonderful
friend Alex Cecia into the studio. She's just an amazing,
amazing singer. She plays around here. Alex six strings is
what she goes by, and we originally brought her in
to do the backup vocals because there's a lot of
harmonies on this one and after her coming in and
absolutely nailing the part, I thought to myself, I was like, hey,
you want to try singing the second verse because the
song is about a breakup, and so with the female
vocal on the second verse, it kind of sounds like
a breakup within the song. So it's it's definitely cool
and her vocal makes the tune. So I'm gonna play
it now because I can't wait to get this song
out there. But this one's gonna be released with the
rest of them, and it's gonna I'm telling you it's
it's probably gonna be the treat, you know, because because
it's got the other vocal on there and she's absolutely amazing,
and I can't wait to release it. Our picture of
our hands.
Speaker 16: Moving up and down the stairs, wishing that you were
there now.
Speaker 1: Nowhere. I hope you don't feel this pain. I never
felt this way.
Speaker 16: Well this piece, and Yola, I'm going and see now
you you got me going in see and now I'm gone.
And sometimes they say and never get what you want,
But I've got to keep bound rolling. And sometimes they
say it's hard away and you're on your own, But
I've got to keep.
Speaker 5: Bond rolling.
Speaker 1: Higher keep bud rolling.
Speaker 16: I always knew you told my lies, saw that you
love in your eyes, that you have for me. That's
why I'm so surprised. But I'll take it where it leans.
No money and no plan. Stop crying and toss the
picture of my higher I really love the picture of
our hands.
Speaker 1: And now I'm gone.
Speaker 16: And sometimes they say you never get what you want,
but I've got to keep bound rolling.
Speaker 1: And sometimes they say it's hot.
Speaker 16: A win, you're on your own, but I've got to
keep bondaling.
Speaker 4: While ye.
Speaker 16: Worry all this reflection. I have to myself so many
reasons for you to run away.
Speaker 3: And now I'm gone.
Speaker 16: And sometimes they say you never get what you want,
but I've got to.
Speaker 1: Keep bound ruleing.
Speaker 16: And sometimes they say it's hard to win and you're
on your own, but.
Speaker 1: I've got to keep bond And.
Speaker 3: Now I'm gone.
Speaker 16: And sometimes they say, never get what you want, but
I've got to keep bound rule.
Speaker 1: In June. Know when I'm gone, go and killed, I
won't rude. I've got to keep bond ruleing.
Speaker 18: Nice.
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 17: Jesse Rutstein here with us alive in studio. So, Jesse,
do you have anything like when's your when's your next gig?
We should make sure people know.
Speaker 3: About Terminus on June seventh, will be the next one,
June say, and then the summer kickoff is June twenty second.
That is, it's going to be at the Auburn Pits.
It's a daytime through the nighttime thing. I'll be opening
the show at one Faith fans closing up and again
the Tumble Tooads, Glitter Tooth and the Whole Loaf We're
going to be down there too. It's going to be
a really fun time, you know, getting the summer kicked off.
It's a Sunday gig, so and that it's a really
great venue, the Auburn Pits, So you know, we're hoping
to get a bunch of people down there, and it's
gonna be that One's gonna be really fun. It'll be
the first time that I actually have a full like
the Terminus gig. I'll be doing a trio. Caleb's probably
gonna be with me on.
Speaker 16: That one took, but this will be the first time
I'm going to be able to actually perform it all
with all the parts.
Speaker 18: Oh, outstandy, outstanding.
Speaker 17: And where's the best place for people to go online
to keep up with everything.
Speaker 3: If your Facebook, you go to face Jesse Rudstein Music.
If you love Instagram, go to Jesse Redstein Music. Three,
and then on TikTok it's just Jesse Rudstein. Okay, And
then I'm embarrassed to admit, but I'm still getting the
website rolling. I'm not going to do one of those
plastic things. I'm yeah, I got somebody actually working on it.
That's gonna really make a nice one.
Speaker 17: Oh good, good, absolutely, yeah, No, that's that's very important.
That's very important.
Speaker 3: Like I said, starting from the ground up. This is
actually the first radio interview I've done promoting this thing.
Speaker 17: So I'm like, oh, okay, yeah, excellent. Well, we're very
happy that you're here, and glad you played live for
us too. That sounds everything sounds really good. And in
a moment, we're gonna get to well, let's let's talk
about it. So we're gonna do the World Radio you know,
we love the World Radio premieres on the on the show,
and we're gonna play this track. Now, what is tell
us about this? About this song?
Speaker 3: This song? So, twenty twenty four was a.
Speaker 16: It was a really like weird year for me, okay,
like crazy crazy year. And this song was something things
that have happened prior that led up to it. This
was actually written about three years ago when I was
at a place where I was.
Speaker 3: You know, it's an angry song. I was very angry
about the situation that I was in. And it doesn't
it doesn't even necessarily reflect it. It's my art, like
that's how I was feeling at the time. Like things
have changed since then and things have gotten a lot better.
So it's like one of those one of those things,
like a painter paints of painting. You can't change it
in two years when things get better. But this song
has just it. Instead of like acting on my emotions,
I try to let them out through my music, you know.
And this became It started off as just the weirdest
with the weirdest lyrics, and then I've I've changed a
lot of the lyrics. It came from a conversation. I
was a bartender for a while, and it came from
a conversation that I was having with another guy that
was going at the bar that was going through a
similar situation. And so Caleb decided that he really wanted
to throw a keyboard part on this, and we have
the hymn and B three and the keyboard part makes
the whole song. Okay, really does up until this past year.
So he basically put this tune together with me and
the outro had this really, really great keyboard solo on it.
And when I started to revisit it this year, he
said to me, He's like, I don't know if the
keyboard solo is right. And I'm like, what are you
talking about? Keyboard solo is awesome. He's like, he's like, no, man,
the keyboard runs the beginning of the song. He's like,
it should be guitar, you know. So I did a
guitar solo at the end, and I'm an okay guitar player.
I like the way I play lead guitar, but it
just wasn't cutting it for this tune. So I brought
in Peter Davis is his name him, and actually he's
in a band with Connor Coburn from No More Blue Tomorrows,
and they're an excellent band. Connor is all over thep
as well, helping me with engineering and vocal mixing and
you name it. But Peter we briefly played together. I've
only played together with him a few times, and I
was like, Hey, you want to come down and do
this track. It's really cool tune I think. I think
it's right up his guitar style. Like this guy isn't
just one of the best guitarists I've ever played with,
He's one of the best guitarists I've ever heard. That's
how good this guy is. And so he came down
to the studio and I was just I didn't know
what to expect. And we sat down for a couple
hours and collectively put together this solo. I was like,
this is what I hear, but I can't do it,
so can you do that? And he would be like,
all right, well, I'll just do it ten times better
than what you And it was really great working with him,
and he's absolutely a feature on this track. I couldn't
the song wouldn't be what it is without this guitar solo.
But it's just, you know, it's a tune that I
wrote when I was very happy about what was going
on in my life and everything has gotten better since,
but the song, you know, is there and I want it.
I just think it's a great tune. It's hard rocking.
You know, if anybody who's listening in their car right
now turn it up, yeah, because this is one of
those ones that you want to crank.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I'm just very very happy with it.
Speaker 18: Okay, okay, very cool. So we're gonna play that in
just a moment.
Speaker 17: And uh, I do want to remind people too, if
you missed any part of today's show, it will be
up in just a little bit at Wmnhradio dot org
and at my website Matt Connerton dot com. And Jenny,
you want to mention your website because you're always doing
a lot of great stuff.
Speaker 3: You can come check me out at Gencoffee dot com.
Speaker 5: J E N N c O f f UI dot com.
Speaker 17: Absolutely, and thank you to everyone who joined us today,
Katie Dobbins who called in, and of course I echo
Ray who joined us in studio. And we are going
to close out today's show with this. This is the
world Radio Premiere. This is brand new from Jesse Rutstein,
and this is called here.
Speaker 18: Baby, Gene, you are listening to do Waluminate.
Speaker 3: World Premiere.
Speaker 4: Sorry, baby, when your mama doesn't care her way and
your daddy has to pay, you're just jealous over sellsspone.
Admit she pushed herself out of this off while she
lives to herself and everybody else.
Speaker 1: To keep you aparty.
Speaker 16: You know he's sorry that he missed your last birthday.
You know your mama told you he wanted it that way,
telling you and a friends that he's the bad man.
Speaker 1: Because he broke her.
Speaker 16: But he'll see you would cant would put the shoe
in then and get a brand new star.
Speaker 6: Tam baby Gee.
Speaker 4: I hold this letter five well, because if your mama
is right about God, well, she's going street.
Speaker 6: Team baby Gee.
Speaker 1: Sorry mama, for things don't always.
Speaker 4: Go away, and that's when you lose your fck in mind.
Speaker 16: She'll make up your stories to your little tantrum.
Speaker 1: It's all the same.
Speaker 4: Your baby's gonna find out a good time. Dear baby Gee,
hold this letter why you well, and if your mama
is right about God, well she's going straight to hell.
Speaker 6: Tam baby Gee, Tam baby Gee.
Speaker 4: I hope you'll ride a balcone.
Speaker 16: Hope you're right loveco.
Speaker 5: Hope you don't route of bouc.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll run about, stop going strikes and round.
Speaker 5: Till baby Jane.
Speaker 7: Huste just like a bad you free for this is
a nice working up electricity through airways route.
Speaker 3: We call it the storm. A rebel sat dumb, A legend.
Speaker 1: Is born from the sat cross passion so true. I
used to fire up from me and for you look
change for silence.
Speaker 13: The way to contained spiral could cut.
Speaker 5: Straight in the leaf.
Speaker 1: It's just spinning songs, oping through the sky, trying.
Speaker 14: To tell you a lot of feeling flying and I
can't still at least breaking a wall si you.
Speaker 1: And then standings all for real.
Speaker 18: To little.
Speaker 1: Through the long nights, if blight days, you stand up fighting.
Speaker 14: Truth.
Speaker 5: The light shopper den the blade by.
Speaker 1: It was surlember, just a voice soun of bread. Even
the years, whatever word between lay from the standing rise
of pas shape.
Speaker 5: It's so true, it's so true. And at least the.
Speaker 14: Fire your filt on made a feel, no shase, no silence,
no way to truck cuts in scary, scary your kid
truts through the rain.
Speaker 1: Through it all from the stat of clay and passion,
so true. Unleash the fire You'll cook for me and
for you. No change, no sound is the way it.
Speaker 14: Contains spirit and broken cut straight through the ray, he
sping strong, tailing through the sky, telling the tilt of feeling,
flying that, trying to sell at least springing all the
walls so you and then nay.
Speaker 1: Standings all through it all.
Speaker 7: Two long nights by Jason said, not fighting for so
turning the tile, allow of feed it and fly in
Matt Charlton, I'm least.
Speaker 3: Breaking on the walls.
Speaker 14: So when you are they standing so.
Speaker 1: Off through you all.
Speaker 13: From the static rise of passion, so true, so true, at.
Speaker 14: Leastify your filth on me off you no sase, no silence,
no way truck can say staring staring a rock and
trucks freaking delay.
Speaker 1: Good thriddle the middle, thrill
Speaker 3: The little, the little,