Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed: Jesse Rutstein
Speaker 1: Really, it's just another story about life and love and pain.
Speaker 2: You want someone to need you, and I just broke
Speaker 2: the chain.
Speaker 1: You came to me in a hurry, never tried to
Speaker 1: take my hand. I had no intention, since you never
Speaker 1: had a plan. It could have been loved. It was
Speaker 1: a passionate fir I made come, but you never stayed anywhere.
Speaker 2: It could have been loved.
Speaker 3: If you wanted it to be. But you don't need no.
Speaker 2: One to blame it on.
Speaker 1: Baby, It could have been me. I never asked about
Speaker 1: your story. If I did, you never tell drowning in
Speaker 1: our sadness while your body cast a spell. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: just know it's not a night that brings you things.
Speaker 2: I got what I came for.
Speaker 1: It, you got your leaves. It could have been alone.
Speaker 1: It was a passionate affair. A made you come, but
Speaker 1: you never stayed anywhere. We could have been alone if
Speaker 1: I wanted it to be.
Speaker 2: But you don't need no one to blame it all.
Speaker 3: The baby, It could have been me. Who could have
Speaker 3: been some men?
Speaker 1: Well, let's just roll down my story about life and
Speaker 1: loving pain. We loved it when and our skin would
Speaker 1: touch the hearts or wrapped in chains, I could have
Speaker 1: been your everything and you.
Speaker 2: Could have been my wife, but you ran away and I.
Speaker 1: Let you go.
Speaker 2: In soul such as life, it.
Speaker 1: Could have been loved. It was a passionate fair I
Speaker 1: made you come, but you never stayed anywhere and could.
Speaker 3: Have been loved.
Speaker 4: If we wanted it to be.
Speaker 2: But you need someone to blame it on.
Speaker 1: Baby, ain't gonna be me.
Speaker 5: I love that that is called stay anywhere, and that
Speaker 5: is Jesse Rutstein, who is here with us and we're
Speaker 5: going to be speaking with in just a moment, and
Speaker 5: he's going to play a couple songs live with us,
Speaker 5: but or live for us, I should say. But if
Speaker 5: you are listening live on Saturday, I hope you're traveling safely.
Speaker 5: We've got some winter weather and was very surprised to
Speaker 5: wake up to that. But this is Matt Connorton Unleashed
Speaker 5: and we are live from the studios of wm NH
Speaker 5: ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire.
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Speaker 6: Cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 5: Today is a Saturday, April twelve, two thy twenty five.
Speaker 5: Jenny is here, of course at the news table, President
Speaker 5: accounted for and let me get.
Speaker 6: That mic up there.
Speaker 5: So we've got Jesse Rutstein.
Speaker 6: Is here with us.
Speaker 4: Hello, Jesse, Yay, how's it going good?
Speaker 5: I gotta boost this up a little bit. We have
Speaker 5: to kind of sound check live on the air. But yeah,
Speaker 5: welcome to the show. It's great to have you on.
Speaker 5: So we met you at the grand reopening of Terminus
Speaker 5: Underground back in how many months it becomes a blur.
Speaker 6: I don't know how many.
Speaker 4: Months ago, January I think, yeah.
Speaker 6: It was it was a yeah January that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that sounds right, yeah, yeah, and no, we were
Speaker 5: very impressed. I love your voice, thank you, absolutely absolutely,
Speaker 5: and uh and the songs are great. We have we
Speaker 5: played that studio track and we're gonna be playing another
Speaker 5: one toward the end of our conversation today too, which
Speaker 5: is a world radio premiere or something that that we'll
Speaker 5: talk about later. So really looking forward to that and
Speaker 5: looking forward to hearing you play live.
Speaker 6: But uh, that.
Speaker 5: Tell us about because we were talking off air too
Speaker 5: about a collaborator of yours who someone who has been
Speaker 5: on the show, although ironically not talking about music but
Speaker 5: talking about other subjects. So you was on a long
Speaker 5: time ago. But Caleb, Yeah, yeah, Caleb Dier.
Speaker 4: He is my probably my main producer, co producer because
Speaker 4: we both work on the stuff together, been in a
Speaker 4: few bands together over the years. I hooked up with
Speaker 4: Tree Street's Inc. Is the studio that we work out of,
Speaker 4: executive producers Dave Patterson, who makes all this happen for us,
Speaker 4: and me and Caleb hooked up years ago. We were
Speaker 4: in the Jes Solsen band together, and then we were
Speaker 4: in a short lived band called Stay in the End.
Speaker 4: And you know, both of us are just working working
Speaker 4: on the studio together, and we did a bunch of tracks.
Speaker 4: The track that we're about We're Gonna play later is
Speaker 4: actually a song that's been three years in the making.
Speaker 4: We recorded tracks years ago and it kind of gave
Speaker 4: some rebirth to it. So yeah, he's kind of like
Speaker 4: been my partner throughout this whole thing. It's definitely the
Speaker 4: EP is going to be a solo release, but it
Speaker 4: definitely takes a village, you know.
Speaker 6: Right right, Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 5: So where do you record like you record at his
Speaker 5: studio or where do you record?
Speaker 4: So the studio is operated own and operated by Dave Patterson.
Speaker 4: It's called Tree Streets. It's on Vine Street in Nashua.
Speaker 4: And the things that Dave has done with this place,
Speaker 4: it's a it's a full studio and a rehearsal space
Speaker 4: for other bands, similar to what Terminus Underground does. It's
Speaker 4: kind of a place where we can get in and
Speaker 4: uh not break the bank to record and and and
Speaker 4: put together some really great tracks. There's so much talent.
Speaker 4: Dave as an engineer, Caleb as engineer, musician you know,
Speaker 4: and producer as well. So the three of us have
Speaker 4: been working closely together for years, about four or five
Speaker 4: years now. So it's full studio at the sound booth,
Speaker 4: you know everything. It's not much to look at on
Speaker 4: the outside, but when you go in anytime somebody new
Speaker 4: comes down, they're.
Speaker 2: Like, wow, this place is great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know we have and there's a number of
Speaker 4: bands that you know, rent space in there and stuff too.
Speaker 4: It's not so much as a performance as as like
Speaker 4: kind of a studio the studio side of local music.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, very cool. And so how did your Are
Speaker 5: you from Nashua?
Speaker 4: Is that I'm from Nasha you're from?
Speaker 5: Is that how your your association with Eleanor and Andre
Speaker 5: from Terminus in New Hampshire Underground came about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Eleanor hit me up. I think that I forget
Speaker 4: exactly what happened. I think they had a cancelation or
Speaker 4: they just heard about me. But there was a show
Speaker 4: last fourth of July. It was a veterans benefit and
Speaker 4: they asked me if i'd like to go do it,
Speaker 4: and yeah, yeah, we met, we hit it off, and
Speaker 4: then they asked me to come play at Terminus. And
Speaker 4: I've been down there a few times. Great great place,
Speaker 4: you know, great, great place for local musicians and artists.
Speaker 6: I met.
Speaker 4: The person who's doing all my photography down there, crafty k.
Speaker 4: She's she's I met her at Terminus too, and okay,
Speaker 4: you know, so it's it's and what we're trying to
Speaker 4: do at Tree Streets is like the student udeo side
Speaker 4: of showcasing what they're what they're doing in Nashvilla. So
Speaker 4: it's really it's it's, uh, I really love those guys.
Speaker 4: They're really awesome. Yeah, yeah, and I'll be playing down
Speaker 4: there on the seventh of June.
Speaker 6: Oh, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we so when we went to that so, yeah,
Speaker 5: that was the first time Jenny and I had seen
Speaker 5: you and uh Quincy Lord who had just been on
Speaker 5: the show. I think uh might have been on that morning, no,
Speaker 5: or maybe.
Speaker 4: It was Definitely it was weird because I checked you
Speaker 4: out right after we booked the show and Quincy had
Speaker 4: been on because I just had just met Quincy that
Speaker 4: night as well.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, he's amazing, He's great.
Speaker 5: The thing that I tell everybody about Terminus is the
Speaker 5: first time you walk into it, it's like it's like
Speaker 5: walking into another world. It's like, uh, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean, It's so unique and so interesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you get there and you know, you look
Speaker 4: and you're like, am I in the right spot?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: And they do a great job with the sound there too, fantastic, Yeah,
Speaker 5: Andre And I think Katie is that her name, the
Speaker 5: sound engineer who's there a lot too. I think it's
Speaker 5: not really sure, I think it's I think I think
Speaker 5: it's Katie. Yeah, they do it, They do it great job,
Speaker 5: and they get a they get a great sound out
Speaker 5: of the place, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, Yeah, And we need.
Speaker 5: You know, we need as many places like that as
Speaker 5: possible that are really into supporting local music and also
Speaker 5: you know, being able to have national acts that come through,
Speaker 5: like Jenny was able to work with Eleanor to book
Speaker 5: Green Jello there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I missed that show. I was working that night,
Speaker 4: but my buddy went to that show and brought me
Speaker 4: an autographed shirt from from the bands, because you know,
Speaker 4: I remember those guys from when I was a kid.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 4: Do you play out a lot?
Speaker 5: Do you play a lot of live shows?
Speaker 4: I was, I was doing a lot of shows. I've
Speaker 4: pretty much been laser focused in the studio right now.
Speaker 4: Throughout the last few years, I've been trying to put
Speaker 4: together a number of different projects and uh the you know,
Speaker 4: I work with different bands and and different artists and
Speaker 4: amazing artists that that actually appear on the upcoming EP.
Speaker 4: Oh cool, Yeah, absolutely, but it at the beginning of
Speaker 4: this year, I decided that I had so much material
Speaker 4: that we've just compiled over the last couple of years,
Speaker 4: and I have all these new songs that I wanted
Speaker 4: to do, So I was like, all right, I'm going
Speaker 4: to try to do this ground up. I've never promoted
Speaker 4: myself as a solo artist before, and so I put,
Speaker 4: I mean, there's a song that's coming out that's a duet,
Speaker 4: you know, and the one that we're going to play later,
Speaker 4: Dear Baby Jean has some amazing, amazing musicians on it,
Speaker 4: and yeah, so I was just like, you know what,
Speaker 4: I'm going to promote it as a solo thing. I'm
Speaker 4: doing all the online stuff that you're supposed to do,
Speaker 4: which is extremely tedious. Yes, the music industry has changed
Speaker 4: the way that artists get themselves out there, but I
Speaker 4: can tell you that I never thought I'd be on
Speaker 4: TikTok as much as I have with this single. But
Speaker 4: but yeah, so I am booking through the summer and
Speaker 4: you know, and going forwards, and I'm going to be
Speaker 4: promoting it as a solo thing. The show I'm doing
Speaker 4: it Terminus, I have a couple of great players that
Speaker 4: are going to be playing with me. And then I'm
Speaker 4: playing a gig at the end of June the Sorry
Speaker 4: it's the summer kickoff at the Auburn Pits June twenty second.
Speaker 4: Faith and Band is going to be the liner. Nice
Speaker 4: and you know other bit tumble Toes, Glitter, Tooth and
Speaker 4: the Whole Loaf are also going to be playing. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna be opening the show, and I got some great
Speaker 4: musicians playing that one with me too.
Speaker 6: So standing yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But that's all I have for the live stuff
Speaker 4: coming up right now. It's going to be laser focused
Speaker 4: on studio getting the EP out. That way, I have
Speaker 4: something to promote when I really do get out there
Speaker 4: and start.
Speaker 5: Gigging exactly and when is the EP coming out?
Speaker 2: The goal?
Speaker 4: The goal is June tenth.
Speaker 6: Ok.
Speaker 4: We're dropping the next single on May first, and June tenth.
Speaker 4: I just there's some finishing touches, you know, different musicians
Speaker 4: are supposed to be coming in and doing a couple
Speaker 4: of things for the last song, So wow, I'm hoping
Speaker 4: to get it all done by then, but uh, it'll
Speaker 4: be five songs and then after that there'll be a
Speaker 4: full length. And don't ask me a date on that one.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, so you're already planning a full length.
Speaker 4: I am planning the full length, but it's I really
Speaker 4: want to see that stay anywhere. When I released it,
Speaker 4: you know, I did a ton of research on on
Speaker 4: how to promote and and what people are doing now
Speaker 4: to get heard and I'm getting I'm getting some views
Speaker 4: and I'm getting some some some positivity coming back from it.
Speaker 4: But I really like it's almost like I'm working through
Speaker 4: the kinks on this one as I prepare to really
Speaker 4: push the next five songs.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, no that makes sense. Yeah, Uh do you
Speaker 5: want to play I'm down here? You play live? I
Speaker 5: know Jenny is too on the audience shore Yeah, uh
Speaker 5: what yeah, I'll let you go ahead and grab your
Speaker 5: guitar and then while Jesse's doing that. Uh, if you
Speaker 5: are listening live, of course, we have Jesse Rutstein here
Speaker 5: with us live in studio on this snowy SAT.
Speaker 6: Morning.
Speaker 5: We were very surprised to wake up to uh a
Speaker 5: lot of snow on the ground and it was still
Speaker 5: coming down and the roads were messy and uh, just
Speaker 5: right back to winter. But uh, let's see. Let me
Speaker 5: turn that uphold. Oh that sounds nice in the headphones.
Speaker 5: That sounds nice. Yeah, that sounds really good. What what
Speaker 5: are you gonna play for us?
Speaker 4: There's a song called Superhero Toys.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 4: I have four amazing, amazing children, Gia, Junior, Jackson.
Speaker 6: And Reenie.
Speaker 4: Her name is Maureen, but we call her Reenie. Oh okay,
Speaker 4: this is a song I wrote a long time ago
Speaker 4: when I found out I was having my second son.
Speaker 4: And it's a song about my my first son, and
Speaker 4: and like, how nerve racking it is to find out
Speaker 4: you're having a boy, and all the thoughts that go
Speaker 4: through your mind. I have to raise a man. You
Speaker 4: gotta teach him respect, You got to teach him to
Speaker 4: be good, and you know, and and so the first
Speaker 4: verse is about that, and then the rest of the
Speaker 4: song is about how great he is. And then his
Speaker 4: his brother, Jackson was born. How great of a big
Speaker 4: brother and uh wow. So it's like yeah, and yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm really proud of all my all my babies.
Speaker 6: All right, very good? And what's it called again?
Speaker 4: It's called superhero toys.
Speaker 6: Superhero toys? All right?
Speaker 7: My mad loss and these tears are of joy.
Speaker 2: When she looked up to me and said, this one's
Speaker 2: a boy. Kind of funny. How to fear and the.
Speaker 8: Love of a son, stop you to think of the
Speaker 8: things you have done, because I want him to be strong,
Speaker 8: but be sweet to his mother, a moliot, brave with
Speaker 8: no fear of another. And don't want him to love
Speaker 8: me as much as he can, because it's my job
Speaker 8: to make.
Speaker 2: Him live.
Speaker 9: Him Sue, is you my angel? But this one's for
Speaker 9: the boys. To the truck say and the trains and the.
Speaker 8: Superhero choice to fish in and wishing we could stay
Speaker 8: up farm night.
Speaker 2: Until mom comes.
Speaker 8: Turns out Life, he said, don't worry, boys.
Speaker 1: It's all gonna be all ride.
Speaker 2: He gets the shot, and then his sister gets away
Speaker 2: with ball than he does.
Speaker 8: When she looks in me that way, he said, Hey, Dad,
Speaker 8: why can't I get what I want? I said, you
Speaker 8: know better, son, So let's have some furs.
Speaker 9: And so here's to my angel. But this one's for
Speaker 9: the boys. To the truck say on the trains and.
Speaker 8: The superhero choice to fishing and wishing we could stay
Speaker 8: up all night until mom comes.
Speaker 2: Turns out Life.
Speaker 1: Said, don't worry boys, it's all gonna be all ride.
Speaker 1: And I can't believe how much you have grown.
Speaker 2: I'm proud of.
Speaker 8: You, Soning, And I hope that you know there's another
Speaker 8: boy coming.
Speaker 2: I hope that she can help me.
Speaker 10: To make hill men long mad loss again. Ortis a joy.
Speaker 8: She looked up at me and said, it's another boy,
Speaker 8: and I know that you'll love him as much as
Speaker 8: you can, because it's my job to.
Speaker 2: Make him man. It's a job to make him man.
Speaker 7: And so here's to my angel.
Speaker 2: But this one's for the boys.
Speaker 8: To the truck say on the trains and the Superhero Toys,
Speaker 8: to fishing inn and wishing we could stay up bar
Speaker 8: night until mom comes and turns out the life.
Speaker 7: Let's see it. Don't worry, boys, it's.
Speaker 2: All gonna be all right.
Speaker 5: Oh that is beautiful.
Speaker 4: That is beautiful, Thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 5: That is Superhero Toys, performed live by Jesse Rudstein here
Speaker 5: in studio on this snowy Saturday morning. Matt connorton unleased.
Speaker 5: We are live from the studios of w m n
Speaker 5: H ninety five point three FM. And uh, let's see
Speaker 5: uh my art by KF in the chat room, says
Speaker 5: Rocket Jesse.
Speaker 4: That is uh that she did all of all the
Speaker 4: photography for the album. Oh that's who did the Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 4: she's really great, outstanding.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely very cool, very cool.
Speaker 5: I'm curious about, like, how did you learn to sing?
Speaker 5: Because you've got a certain there's a rawness to your
Speaker 5: voice that I really like that I think, and I
Speaker 5: think it works perfectly with your material, Like did you
Speaker 5: ever take lessons?
Speaker 4: Are you self taught? Or the only lessons I ever
Speaker 4: took were on drums? The singing. The singing has it's
Speaker 4: been you know, I thought I could sing for a
Speaker 4: long time, and then I started record and I was like, wow,
Speaker 4: I really need to work on this. Yeah, for sure,
Speaker 4: it's it's uh so. My my influences are everything from
Speaker 4: BB King to Michael Jackson to Metallica, you know, I mean,
Speaker 4: and but and the Beatles and everything in between. And
Speaker 4: and I had I found out early on that a
Speaker 4: little bit of rasp can hide the fact that I
Speaker 4: don't know a lot of notes. I used to play
Speaker 4: the blues a lot. That's how I really learned how
Speaker 4: to play, me and my friends just in high school,
Speaker 4: and I played a lot of blues, and then the
Speaker 4: classic rock with classic rock, which I guess is now oldies.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I always really liked the raspy kind of voice. Yeah,
Speaker 4: ken hits, you know. I and through the years, through
Speaker 4: you know, recording and listening back, and I always joke
Speaker 4: like I hate my voice, you know, because I listened
Speaker 4: to it more than anybody else studio and whatnot. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I definitely. Of course I appreciate it, and it's uh,
Speaker 4: I definitely don't want to say it's years of practice
Speaker 4: and lots of smoking, but but yeah, so I I
Speaker 4: you know, it took me a while to kind of
Speaker 4: like be like, all right, this is my my thing,
Speaker 4: this is my voice.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: I have friends and bands back in the day who
Speaker 4: are like, why are you always doing the raspy thing?
Speaker 4: Like you have a really nice clear voice too, and
Speaker 4: that does that does come through on the record, Okay,
Speaker 4: you know, but yeah, I try to be as diverse
Speaker 4: as possible because my influences range. They're just all over
Speaker 4: the road. Yeah, so you know, I'm trying to put
Speaker 4: you know, there's that one which is the sweet song,
Speaker 4: and then the one you played, which is kind of
Speaker 4: like the outlaw acoustic. Yeah, and then Dear Baby Jeane
Speaker 4: is like a hard rock and tune with amazing guitar
Speaker 4: work done by Peter Davis and who's a great local
Speaker 4: musician as well. So yeah, I'm trying to like bring
Speaker 4: a little bit of everything. But the one thing that
Speaker 4: does hold it all together, I at least in my opinion,
Speaker 4: and is the voice. Okay, you know, yeah, I'm trying
Speaker 4: to put ham and B three organs on one and
Speaker 4: then we have a shaker on the other one. It's
Speaker 4: just acoustic, you know. So it's like it's it's uh,
Speaker 4: what holds it together? Is that familiar voice.
Speaker 5: When you sing with with that rasp. Is that something
Speaker 5: you do consciously or does that just happen? Because you
Speaker 5: mentioned too, you do also sing on some tracks with
Speaker 5: a cleaner voice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I I control it the best I
Speaker 4: can do it. I do it on purpose because I
Speaker 4: can hit you know, lovely notes too.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, especially when I'm doing the acoustic gigs, you got
Speaker 4: to kind of do that. But yeah, it just it
Speaker 4: just it comes naturally to me. And yeah, it's like
Speaker 4: a guitarist learning how to control his feedback, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, sometimes it's cool. Sometimes it's like you just
Speaker 4: turn it down right right.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 5: You mentioned so you used to play in a band. Actually,
Speaker 5: you mentioned you played in a band with Caleb.
Speaker 4: I played in a couple of bands with Calebs We
Speaker 4: met I believe around two thousand, two thousand and one
Speaker 4: with the jess Olsen band. Jess Olsen's another amazing music
Speaker 4: musician from the area. She's Jessica Songbird is probably how
Speaker 4: anybody would know her.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, she's really great. I think I interviewed Jess
Speaker 5: Olson once.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't doubt it, Yeah, I wouldn't.
Speaker 5: It becomes a blurb, but I think a long time
Speaker 5: ago I interviewed jess Olson. That's very familiar.
Speaker 4: That surprises me because she's really really memorable. But she's yeah,
Speaker 4: she's awesome. And the band just kind of went separate
Speaker 4: ways me and me and Jess had different ideas of
Speaker 4: what we were going to do with the music going
Speaker 4: forward after being together for a couple of years. And
Speaker 4: when the band split, the guys that were, you know,
Speaker 4: Alec Philip Brown was our bass player and Seth Sedars,
Speaker 4: who appears on some tracks on the record as well,
Speaker 4: played drums, and we were like, hey, you want to
Speaker 4: just keep jamming and doing some rock stuff. I was like, well,
Speaker 4: are we going to find a new singer?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 4: And they're like, why don't you just sing? So we
Speaker 4: did a few gigs and recorded some really really wonderful
Speaker 4: music as a group, and that was about two or
Speaker 4: three years ago, and now here we are where some
Speaker 4: of those songs that I thought that I was just
Speaker 4: gonna scrap because that been you know, people have schedule,
Speaker 4: different goals and whatnot. And when that ended, I thought,
Speaker 4: oh well, I lost a couple of tunes here. But
Speaker 4: I ended up, you know, going back in and putting
Speaker 4: some stuff together. And you know, this one song called
Speaker 4: on Your Toes, which originally was a song about a
Speaker 4: girl and I just for whatever reason, I'm not going
Speaker 4: to be playing that song anymore. But the drums were
Speaker 4: just so good in it. And On Your Toes was
Speaker 4: a song that I wrote years and years ago about
Speaker 4: my daughter, who's an amazing dancer, and it's a song
Speaker 4: about her doing getting up on toe shoes when she
Speaker 4: was in ballet for the first time. And there's a
Speaker 4: really nice song. But I was like, wow, those drums
Speaker 4: are gonna work really cool. So I went in and
Speaker 4: cut up. I told Seth. I was like, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: be cutting up your drum track, but I'm gonna be
Speaker 4: using it.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So he hasn't even heard his drum track yet.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, it's cool. That one.
Speaker 4: I can't wait. I'll be playing that one for you
Speaker 4: today too. Okay, that one I can't wait to release
Speaker 4: because that's a really cool tune. Yeah, I have some
Speaker 4: saxophone on it.
Speaker 6: Oh, very cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, the forgotten rock and roll instrument.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: What was it that brought you after playing in bands?
Speaker 5: What was it that brought you to wanting to do
Speaker 5: a solo thing but where you're still obviously collaborating with
Speaker 5: a lot of musicians.
Speaker 4: Well, Number one, I've never done it before. Yeah, It's
Speaker 4: always been a dream of mine. But I find that, like,
Speaker 4: especially in this area, it's really really tough to get
Speaker 4: out there and promote original music. And if I'm gonna
Speaker 4: start a band, nine times out of ten, you're gonna
Speaker 4: be playing three hour cover gigs. Not that I have
Speaker 4: anything against that, and not to think anything's wrong with that.
Speaker 4: There are some freaking workhorses in this town. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: in the area who are out there every night killing it,
Speaker 4: bringing live music to the area. It's just I want
Speaker 4: to do my thing. I want to get on some
Speaker 4: bills that are promoting original music, and I realize in
Speaker 4: order to do that, I'm going to have to have
Speaker 4: that original music available. So I kind of instead of
Speaker 4: playing in bands that will be funded by playing three
Speaker 4: hour nights at a bar, I'm going to go the
Speaker 4: other route and try to promote this first and then
Speaker 4: get out there and get some opening slots for some
Speaker 4: bigger bands and some kind of thing.
Speaker 6: At least that's the goal.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I think that makes a lot of sense. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: Well do you want to play that song?
Speaker 6: You're just talking about it. I'd love to hear another one.
Speaker 5: And if you are listening live, if you're just joining us,
Speaker 5: Jesse Rutstein, it is here with us live in studio
Speaker 5: on this Saturday morning here and sounding amazing.
Speaker 6: So that one.
Speaker 4: The last one I played was about my son. This
Speaker 4: is about my daughter. Don't know if you know anything
Speaker 4: about dance, but I was a dance dad. And okay,
Speaker 4: when when a kid gets company, it's like being one
Speaker 4: of the all stars.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, got she.
Speaker 4: She became a company dancer, and uh, this is about
Speaker 4: the first time I saw it, because it takes a
Speaker 4: couple of years to get up on those toe shoes.
Speaker 4: And you know when you picture a ballerina like like
Speaker 4: a music box or something and they're on that toe
Speaker 4: that's what that's what the song's aboutast time I actually
Speaker 4: saw her do it.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, very cool, You're sorry, No worries.
Speaker 8: The size of campy real with the light up when
Speaker 8: they look at me. The yard would be ideal.
Speaker 2: Way to walk and touching the trees, every touch tree.
Speaker 2: When I saw you dancing on your toe.
Speaker 8: I knew what they man when they said it's hot
Speaker 8: to watch them grow.
Speaker 2: When you first dance.
Speaker 11: With me, I had to hold gems and capture clothes.
Speaker 11: She said, I love you, mom.
Speaker 2: Now can't believe she's really give you man, I can
Speaker 2: never be I see a woman, not a girl.
Speaker 8: And I can remember the time of sun from the
Speaker 8: til you came into my life. That had been so Friday.
Speaker 8: When I saw you dancing on your toes, I knew
Speaker 8: what the man when they said it sung to watch
Speaker 8: them grow.
Speaker 1: When you first dance with me, I had to pold
Speaker 1: your hands, catch your club, she said, I love.
Speaker 12: She said, I love you more. The man saw you're dancing,
Speaker 12: and I'm not tild.
Speaker 2: I what th man when you said it's no man
Speaker 2: saw you're dancing. Are you telling sound thing?
Speaker 10: Now?
Speaker 2: When you said it's.
Speaker 13: To watch you rom to watch you grow, to watch
Speaker 13: a ground?
Speaker 5: Very nice, Thank you very much, very nice, Thank you
Speaker 5: so much.
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
Speaker 5: Jesse Rutsteene is here with us live in studio on
Speaker 5: this Saturday morning. And uh, by the way, uh so
Speaker 5: Philippe is in the chat room, says loving it Jesse.
Speaker 5: And also Rob Dyon, who does a show here called
Speaker 5: through the Stage Door, was inquiring about your last name
Speaker 5: and his rut scene, so he's obviously a fan, all right,
Speaker 5: T s t E. I yes, yes, and uh, let's
Speaker 5: see also I see uh Miriam Banish of course, our
Speaker 5: good friend and a big supporter of the show and
Speaker 5: all the shows here at w M. And H's in
Speaker 5: there also, and we have somebody listening from Uganda. Hello, welcome.
Speaker 5: So that's good news, absolutely absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So the so the EP, we went into the decision
Speaker 5: to do an EP because I you were saying, so
Speaker 5: the EP will come out June is what you're shooting for.
Speaker 5: But then you've but then you've also got an album
Speaker 5: in my pretty much time.
Speaker 4: And you know, the studio is utilized by by a
Speaker 4: number of people. My day is Sunday, so I'm down
Speaker 4: all day Sunday and I you know, I spend time
Speaker 4: and I record some other people too. I teach lessons
Speaker 4: out of there. Oh wow, oh yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: I only have one student and one potential at the time.
Speaker 6: Coming up.
Speaker 4: But I love you know, I work, I work right
Speaker 4: with kids. Yeah yeah, I got a bunch of them. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so you know, and uh, I really I love I
Speaker 4: love watching the uh young, the younger generation get into
Speaker 4: to rock and roll, which I actually think is really
Speaker 4: happening right now. I'm seeing so many kids and it's funny,
Speaker 4: Like my daughter is gonna kill me for telling this story.
Speaker 4: But she wears a deaf leopard shirt and I'm like,
Speaker 4: name one song and she's like, it's a cool shirt, dad,
Speaker 4: And I'm advertising the band.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 4: It's all about the marketing.
Speaker 6: Right right, all right, cool? Okay.
Speaker 4: She's so, she's twenty she's twenty one. Her name is Gana.
Speaker 4: She actually she's involved too because she's helping me with
Speaker 4: the marketing because I did excellent. I did not know
Speaker 4: how to use Instagram or TikTok. She had to like
Speaker 4: come over and show me.
Speaker 6: Yeah you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh that's really cool. It's cool that she's helping
Speaker 5: you with that. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was curious because there's there's so many different ways
Speaker 5: to release music now.
Speaker 4: Yes, and and so i I'm going to distro kid
Speaker 4: route yuh stay anywhere is available on all streaming platforms,
Speaker 4: uh and and all of this will be But as
Speaker 4: far as your original question, why did I decide to
Speaker 4: do the it's I wanted to do a single or
Speaker 4: two and then drop four and and try to get
Speaker 4: you know, I really want I missed going out and
Speaker 4: grabbing an album and going home and listening to it
Speaker 4: back to back. And I could either sit here and
Speaker 4: act like an old man and say back in my day,
Speaker 4: or I could do what they're doing today, because I'm
Speaker 4: not going to get anywhere marketing to people my age
Speaker 4: or just like my Facebook friends, you know. So so
Speaker 4: I think I've been like I said, I was doing
Speaker 4: some research and you know, private research and whatever, and uh,
Speaker 4: it looks like people are getting really successful this way.
Speaker 4: So I figured why not throw my you know, I
Speaker 4: got some good songs here? Why not my name and
Speaker 4: the hat?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, it makes sense, It makes sense. The
Speaker 5: time goes quickly. Do you want to play one more?
Speaker 5: I'm dying to hear another live one. I want to
Speaker 5: make sure that's doing and then and then after that
Speaker 5: we'll talk about the new the new singles and whatnot.
Speaker 5: But Jesse Rutstein is here with us live in studio
Speaker 5: and uh love loving these so much, so awesome.
Speaker 6: What are you? What are you gonna play for us?
Speaker 4: This one's actually called Picture of Our Hands, song I
Speaker 4: wrote last year which turned into.
Speaker 6: A duet on the EPA.
Speaker 4: It's a male female and I brought my my wonderful
Speaker 4: friend Alex Cecia into the studio. She's just an amazing,
Speaker 4: amazing singer. She plays around here Alex six strings is
Speaker 4: what she goes by, and we originally brought her in
Speaker 4: to do the backup vocals because there's a lot of
Speaker 4: harmonies on this one, and after her coming in and
Speaker 4: absolutely nailing the part, I thought to myself, I was like, hey,
Speaker 4: you want to try singing the second verse because the
Speaker 4: song is about a breakup, and so with the female
Speaker 4: vocal on the second verse, it kind of sounds like
Speaker 4: a breakup within the song. So it's it's definitely cool
Speaker 4: and her vocal makes the tune. So I'm gonna play
Speaker 4: it now because I can't wait to get this song
Speaker 4: out there. But this one's going to be released with
Speaker 4: the rest of them, and it's gonna I'm telling you
Speaker 4: it's it's probably going to be the treat, you know,
Speaker 4: because because it's got the other vocal on there, and
Speaker 4: she's absolutely amazing, and I can't wait to release it. Yes,
Speaker 4: our picture of our.
Speaker 8: Hands, moving up and down the stairs, wishing that you
Speaker 8: were there.
Speaker 2: Now I live life, ain't living nowhere.
Speaker 1: I hope you don't feel this pain, never felt this
Speaker 1: way while this peace in your life.
Speaker 2: I'm going and see now you got me going in see.
Speaker 4: And now I'm gone.
Speaker 8: And sometimes they say, he'll never get what you want,
Speaker 8: but I've got to keep bound rolling. And sometimes they
Speaker 8: say it's hard away and you're on your own, but
Speaker 8: I've got to keep bond rolling, higher, keep bond rolling.
Speaker 1: I always knew you told my lies, saw that you
Speaker 1: love in your eyes, that you had for me. That's
Speaker 1: why I'm so surprised. But I'll take it where it lands,
Speaker 1: no money and no plan. Stop crying. Then toss the
Speaker 1: picture of my hands.
Speaker 3: High.
Speaker 8: Am I really love the picture of my hands, And
Speaker 8: now I'm gone. And sometimes they say, and never get
Speaker 8: what you want, But I've got.
Speaker 2: To keep bound rolling. And sometimes they say it's hot
Speaker 2: a win.
Speaker 1: You're on your own, But I've got to keep bound rolling.
Speaker 7: Why am worrying all this reflection? I have to myself.
Speaker 2: So many reasons for you to run away. And now
Speaker 2: I'm gone.
Speaker 8: And sometimes they say you never get what you want,
Speaker 8: but I've got to keep bound rulling. And sometimes they
Speaker 8: say it's hard to wear and you're on your own.
Speaker 8: But I've got to keep bond and now I'm gone,
Speaker 8: And sometimes it say never get what you want, but
Speaker 8: I've got to keep bond rulling. And you'll know why
Speaker 8: I'm gone.
Speaker 1: Go and kill what I want, but I've got to
Speaker 1: keep bone rulling.
Speaker 6: Nice. I love it.
Speaker 4: I love it awesome.
Speaker 5: Thank you Jesse Rutstein here with us alive in studio. So, Jesse,
Speaker 5: do you have anything like when's your when's your next gig?
Speaker 5: We should make sure people know.
Speaker 4: That Terminus on June seventh will be the next one.
Speaker 6: June seventh, okay, and then.
Speaker 4: The summer kickoff is June twenty second. That is, it's
Speaker 4: going to be at the Auburn Pits. It's a daytime
Speaker 4: through the nighttime thing. I'll be opening the show at one,
Speaker 4: faith fans closing up and again the Tumble Tooads, Glitter
Speaker 4: Tooth and the Whole Loaf We're going to be down
Speaker 4: there too. It's gonna be a really fun time, you know,
Speaker 4: getting the summer kicked off. It's a Sunday gig, so
Speaker 4: and that it's a really great venue, the Auburn Pits,
Speaker 4: So you know, we're hoping to get a bunch of
Speaker 4: people down there, and it's gonna be that One's gonna
Speaker 4: be really fun. It'll be the first time that I
Speaker 4: actually have a full like the Terminus gig. I'll be
Speaker 4: doing a trio. Caleb's probably gonna be with me on
Speaker 4: that cool took, but this will be the first time
Speaker 4: I'm going to be able to actually perform it all
Speaker 4: with all the parts.
Speaker 6: Oh outstanding, outstanding.
Speaker 5: And where's the best place for people to go online
Speaker 5: to keep up with everything that?
Speaker 4: If your Facebook, you go to face Jesse Rudstein Music.
Speaker 4: If you love Instagram, go to Jesse Rudstein Music. Three,
Speaker 4: and then on TikTok it's just Jesse Rudstein And then
Speaker 4: I'm embarrassed to admit, but I'm still getting the website rolling.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to do one of those plastic things.
Speaker 4: I'm yeah, I got somebody actually working on it. That's
Speaker 4: gonna really make a nice one.
Speaker 5: Oh good, good, absolutely, yeah, no, that's very important. That's
Speaker 5: very important.
Speaker 4: Like I said, starting from the ground up. This is
Speaker 4: actually the first radio interview I've done promoting this thing.
Speaker 5: So I'm like, oh, okay, yeah, excellent. Well, we're very
Speaker 5: happy that you're here and glad you played live for
Speaker 5: us too. That sounds everything sounds really good. And in
Speaker 5: a moment, we're gonna get to uh, well, let's let's
Speaker 5: talk about it. So we're gonna do the World Radio
Speaker 5: you know we love the World Radio premieres on the
Speaker 5: on the show, and we're gonna play this track. Now,
Speaker 5: what is tell us about this? About this song?
Speaker 6: This song?
Speaker 4: So, twenty twenty four was a it was a really
Speaker 4: like weird year for me, okay, like crazy, crazy year,
Speaker 4: and this song was something things that have happened prior
Speaker 4: that led up to it. This was actually written about
Speaker 4: three years ago when I was at a place where
Speaker 4: I was you know, it's an angry song. I was
Speaker 4: very angry about the situation that I was in, and
Speaker 4: it doesn't it doesn't even necessarily reflect it. It's my art,
Speaker 4: like that's how I was feeling at the time, Like, yeah,
Speaker 4: things have changed since then and things have gotten a
Speaker 4: lot better. So it's like one of those one of
Speaker 4: those things like a painter paints of painting. You can't
Speaker 4: change it in two years when things get better. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but this song has just it. Instead of like acting
Speaker 4: on my emotions, I try to let him out through
Speaker 4: my music, you know. And this became. It started off
Speaker 4: as just the weirdest with the weirdest lyrics, and then
Speaker 4: I've changed a lot of the lyrics. It came from
Speaker 4: a conversation. I was a bartender for a while, and
Speaker 4: it came from a conversation that I was having with
Speaker 4: another guy that was going at the bar that was
Speaker 4: going through a similar situation. And so Caleb decided that
Speaker 4: he really wanted to throw a keyboard part on this,
Speaker 4: and we have the ham and B three and the
Speaker 4: keyboard part makes the whole song. It really does up
Speaker 4: until this past year. So he basically put this tune
Speaker 4: together with me and the outro had this really really
Speaker 4: great keyboard solo on it. And when I started to
Speaker 4: revisit it this year, he said to me, He's like,
Speaker 4: I don't know if the keyboard solo is right. And
Speaker 4: I'm like, what are you talking about? Keyboard soul is awesome.
Speaker 4: He's like he's like, no, man, the keyboard runs the
Speaker 4: beginning of the song. He's like, it should be guitar,
Speaker 4: you know. So I did a guitar solo at the end,
Speaker 4: and I'm an okay guitar player. I like the way
Speaker 4: I play lead guitar, but it just wasn't cutting it
Speaker 4: for this tune. So I brought in Peter Davis is
Speaker 4: his name him, And actually he's in a band with
Speaker 4: Connor Coburn from No More Blue Tomorrows, and they're an
Speaker 4: excellent band in Connor is all over thep as well,
Speaker 4: helping me with engineering and vocal mixing and you name it.
Speaker 4: But Peter we briefly played together. I've only played together
Speaker 4: with him a few times, and I was like, hey,
Speaker 4: you want to come down and do this track. It's
Speaker 4: really cool tune.
Speaker 6: I think.
Speaker 4: I think it's right up his guitar style. Like this
Speaker 4: guy isn't just one of the best guitarists I've ever
Speaker 4: played with, He's one of the best guitarists I've ever heard.
Speaker 4: That's how good this guy is. And so he came
Speaker 4: down to the studio and I was just I didn't
Speaker 4: know what to expect. And we sat down for a
Speaker 4: couple hours and collectively put together this solo. I was like,
Speaker 4: this is what I hear, but I can't do it,
Speaker 4: So can you do that? And he would be like,
Speaker 4: all right, well, I'll just do it ten times better
Speaker 4: than what you Yeah. Yeah, And it was really great
Speaker 4: working with him, and he's absolutely a feature on this track.
Speaker 4: I couldn't the song wouldn't be what it is without
Speaker 4: this guitar solo. Okay, but it's just, you know, it's
Speaker 4: a tune that I wrote when I was very unhappy
Speaker 4: about what was going on in my life, and everything
Speaker 4: has gotten better since. But the song, you know, is
Speaker 4: there and I want it. I just think it's a
Speaker 4: great tune. It's hard rocking.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: If anybody who's listening in their car right now turn
Speaker 4: it up, you know, because this is one of those
Speaker 4: ones that you want to crank. Yeah, And I'm just
Speaker 4: very very happy with it.
Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, very cool.
Speaker 5: So we're gonna play that in just a moment. And
Speaker 5: I do want to remind people too, if you missed
Speaker 5: any part of today's show, it will be up in
Speaker 5: just a little bit at wmnhradio dot org and at
Speaker 5: my website Matt Coonnerton dot com and Jenny, you want
Speaker 5: to mention in your website because you're always doing a
Speaker 5: lot of great stuff.
Speaker 4: You can come check me out at Gencoffee dot com.
Speaker 7: J E N N C O F f U I
Speaker 7: dot com.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, and thank you to everyone who joined us today,
Speaker 5: Katie Dobbins who called in, and of course I echo
Speaker 5: Ray who joined us in studio. And we are going
Speaker 5: to close out today's show with this. This is the
Speaker 5: World Radio Premiere. This is brand new from Jesse Rutstein
Speaker 5: and this is called here.
Speaker 6: Baby, Gene, you.
Speaker 1: Are listening to WUMNH.
Speaker 6: World Premiere.
Speaker 2: Sorry baby, when your mama doesn't.
Speaker 3: Care and your daddy has to pay, you're.
Speaker 8: Just jealous over and sellings mooning mid She pushed herself
Speaker 8: out of his off while she lies to herself.
Speaker 2: And everybody else to keep you apart.
Speaker 8: Tam, you know he's sorry that he missed your last birthday.
Speaker 8: You know your mama told you he wanted it that way,
Speaker 8: telling you and a friends that he's the bad man.
Speaker 2: Because he broke her off.
Speaker 8: But he see you auld Cain would put the shoe
Speaker 8: in then and get a brand new starck.
Speaker 3: Tam, Baby, jee.
Speaker 8: Whole this letter find well because if your mama is
Speaker 8: rather about God.
Speaker 2: Well she's going straight.
Speaker 3: T baby Gee.
Speaker 8: Sorry mama, for things don't always go away, And that's
Speaker 8: when you lose your in mind.
Speaker 2: She'll make up your stories to your little tantrum. It's
Speaker 2: all the same.
Speaker 8: Your baby's gonna find out a good time.
Speaker 3: Tam baby Gee.
Speaker 2: I hold this letter fin you well.
Speaker 5: Deaf?
Speaker 7: Your old mama is right about God.
Speaker 2: Well she's going straight.
Speaker 6: To tail, baby Gee.
Speaker 2: Tare baby Gee.
Speaker 13: I hope you old.
Speaker 7: Ride about God.
Speaker 2: Hope you're right love God. Hope your rude about God.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll have about time.
Speaker 2: Stop going straight to
Speaker 12: Tail baby j
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