Live & New Music Alert with Tali Yess on JM in the AM

Well, it's no secret. I've been saying it for a couple of days. So excited that Tali is visiting us this morning here at JM the he actually did bring his guitar by the way. So Arammy, we have the answer to that. Arammy was curious if uh he'd be bringing his guitar. Oh, and also we must must get Tales before he leaves this morning. We must get him to record a very special message for listener Dovy, who is the Tales fan out there. My gosh, he is like addicted to your stuff listening. o as he's driving listening over and over and over to your tunes. So that that was the conversation at the Shabas table this bad Shabas. Uh you worked your way into the agenda. How do you like that? Tally. Yes. Welcome back to JM in the AM. >> Exciting to be back again. I'm like uh stoked to be on your show twice in the same year. This is like a big year for me. >> I appreciate that very much and it's great to welcome you here. And boy oh boy, when I invited you, I was hoping that the brand new single would be ready. And sure enough, we have it. We have the brand new Toreta, which is I assume obviously a tip of the hat to the holiday of obviously a tip of the hat to your dear late father who created this song and recorded it and did an amazing job. And I'm sure you also you and Hill Capnik together, right? >> Oh, Kapnik, Hill Kapnik, by the way, is a legend. Um, and he uh he he did such an amazing job with it. I kind of uh think that he breathed some serious new life into it in a way that um it kept a lot of the original uh you know motifs and and anchor points of the original song in it. Uh but at the same time it has a much more modern sound to it. >> Your father recorded in what year would you know? >> It was on the Shabas on My Mind album. So early or early to mid 80s I would imagine it >> before 1990. Shabas on my mind is before 1990. Wow. >> It could be. I mean, I think I'm I'm thinking uh mid80s probably. >> Wow. >> Maybe like 85 or 87. >> I didn't realize Shabbas on My Mind was was that close to the Mamba era. I just didn't realize. >> Well, it was one of the first solo albums afterwards. Uh it was there was um the first album that came out, then the Pintilate album, then Shabas on my mind. >> So, I'm I'm I'm estimating a couple years apart each one. So, that's what I'm saying. Maybe 85 86. >> And that was released on cassette. >> Yeah. Pintalyad also did not make it to LP. It was only on cassette. >> Yeah, those are the ones that are cassettes only. >> I guess the last LP that featured your father was the one uh with the the brown cover >> with the guitar. Yeah, >> I have that one hanging on my wall in this studio. >> You know, I'll never forget and I had the privilege of being on and I'm sorry I do this to you that we always end up reminiscing, but >> I've been used to it, >> I guess. Right. But I'll never forget standing on stage, you know, off to the side. Obviously, my role my role is over once the performers on stage and just watching how he sat in his chair playing the guitar. I wonder if you have any photos from the >> someone just last the night before you called me literally just sent me this video and I wanted you to see this cuz I it can't be it can't be um how do you call it? Um any more time? So, >> correct me if that's not you. that. Let me see. I was about to say it's not me, but now I'm wondering. >> Now I am wondering. >> I think it might be. >> It is not me. >> It's not. >> It is not the first time that I've been confused with the young Zale Newman. It's not the first time. >> Never mind. Never mind. Okay. >> In fact, someone from Israel sent me an intro and said, "Oh, this is you from years ago." And I said, "I hate to tell you that now." We do look very much alike. Yes. I'm not even arguing. And he's an amazing man. >> You know, if I saw how tall he was on video, you showed him from like the >> Correct. I'm only a drop taller than him. >> Oh, really? >> So, I wonder if there is that shot that I always used to love, >> which was being off to the side and getting that side view of your father with the cowboy boots and how he always seemed like when he was sitting in that chair on that stool, he always seemed like he was bent over the exact right amount. He has to. >> There was a silhouette that was just incredible. >> He had this round back guitar. Actually, the guitar >> That's the one you brought with me. >> The one I brought is his guitar. The one that that that Toronto was probably written on is the one I brought today. Holy cow. >> This is the one you saw from the Brown album. >> Unbelievable. >> I figured there's a crazy story behind this one, too. I think I may have mentioned it to you once, but >> Oh my god. It's It's got such a unique look. Look at that thing. >> It's a little beat up, but >> it is beat up, but it's got that I don't know. What do you call that part of the guitar with those with that with that unique? What is it called? >> The pick guard here. >> No, the whole thing. Like the whole piece. That wooden piece. >> Yeah, it's a rosette. It's the It's the um This is >> It's unique. >> Yeah. I mean, it's a >> It's cool. >> It's an ovation. It's a tobacco sunburst finish. So, it's kind of very classic. >> That's what it is, right? Wow. Anybody who has seen the cover now knows exactly what I'm looking at. It's incredible. >> It's a big deal to for me to bring this to your studio actually because normally this doesn't leave my house very often. I brought it to Hill Capnik studio cuz he was a huge fan of my dad's and I was like, you know, I have a little present for you. You get to, you know, like hold the guitar that that that maybe it'll give some good vibes onto the song or something. >> No joke. And I'm telling you, I saw this guitar from that side view 45 years ago. >> Yep. >> And it was just he had such a command. Yeah. >> And how do you have a command when you're a solo artist sitting on a chair, but he had a command of the stage in that position, which was amazing. He did own it. He did own it. Correct. >> Get up on a stage and look at the audience and basically tell them exactly where he's going to shle them and they followed. >> Correct. no matter where he went, he just had this intuition about who he's playing for, how to speak to them, uh what's what songs to pull out of his repertoire, and he had a huge one. >> Um and yeah, it was it was great. When to be serious, when to be funny, like he he just knew how to work the >> um emotional angle of an >> even in the song. Like I always say that AB Rottenberg's a brilliant I think I said this to you last time, a brilliant casting director. >> Yeah. He casted your father in certain songs and the the the cute inside jokes that were in his voice >> as he's singing. Whether it's pesak blues >> pesak blues where he was a woman. >> Correct. Whether it's pesak blues, whether it's the ninth man, the ninth man. We just passed Log B. Do you know how big that song is? >> But it's funny that he said Pes and he's got this really deep gruffy voice and he's like I'm a woman. >> But he got away with it. >> Yeah, >> he got away with it. >> Yeah, it was great. Do you know how big the ninth man is? >> It's huge. It's so big. Every They've made a few versions of it now, >> right? >> It's unbelievable. Anyway, for you for you youngans out there, we're talking about the late great Mosha. Yes. The amazing Tales is in our studio. I'm with Dovy on Chab as I just told you. He's your biggest fan. We if we don't do a recorded message. >> I see. I don't know. I've met a few people in the last year since this country country album came out. They're all saying that they're my biggest fans. I have to figure out like who's really >> If you would have seen his enthusiasm, >> let's put it this way. If you would have been at the shop table, he would not have been able to eat. There's no way he would able to eat. >> Oh wow. I was just in Chicago and uh for Pesak and this gentleman named Mity Weiss comes up to me and he uh and he and he's like, "Oh, I listen to your music. I'm a huge fan." I'm like, "Okay." You know, I think I hear this all the time. I was like lately, you know, country >> and then uh I was like, "All right." I didn't make much of. And he invited me for Yap Chick. I'm like, "Everybody's got Yapchick. I'm going to the mother-in-law for Yap Chick. I'm sorry. I can't just bail on the family." And then next day he buys me an Aaliyah for like, you know, I don't know, over probably over $1,000. >> Are you Morty? >> It was Pes. Yeah. I was like, "Wow." Okay. >> Wow. >> That That's where my like my father's famous line says like send money, not kisses. >> Save the aliyah. Send me a check. It was really nice. Yeah. Listen, you know, I guess music can take it places. >> You're not a coy, are you? >> No, I got uh >> playing your stroll. >> Yeah. >> You got you got >> I don't know what I got. I got up Sika actually. Yeah. Yeah. >> Very nice. >> But it was one of those shows where it went for a lot. >> I hear that. Ty is here. All right. Um I think Dovy told me >> Yeah. >> that his favorite I hope I have this right was just me and the one above now. Is that the one that's getting the most reaction from your album? >> No. >> Which is getting the most from your album? >> So there's there's three that did very very well. >> Yeah. >> Um >> is that one of them or not? >> Not even close. >> Interesting. >> Yeah. I got a lot of people that told me they like that one specifically because it's it's more country and a little softer. >> I think it's the one we're playing the most here >> possibly. Yeah. And also it's also a little less leaning into the rock side of things. So it's, you know, people that can't handle all the heavy guitars and stuff, you know, it's a little more up their alley. >> So what's in the top three? >> So I'm just looking like at the analytics on Spotify. Uh when the when the album first came out, the first song was was the one that got the most cuz people were listening to the first song and then skipping if they didn't like it. >> Um and then after about a >> what is that? Ain't no higher. Uh, yeah. You know, Higher Power on the Chef. And then, um, >> Oh, you're playing. >> Well, while you talk, I'll play you. >> And then the next one, the one that I thought would do very well, cuz it was a heavier song. >> Um, and more of like a boot stomp and party type of song, >> was called This Chosen Soul Here Ain't Afraid, >> right? >> That one had a lot more effects going on on my voice and a lot more cooler riffs on the guitars, like a little more of like a like a heart pounding. >> And that's high on the analytics. That one's very high. And then when I I did a sneak peek song around Kaneka for uh the the volume two of the album. I saved like five songs that I was going to originally put on the first one >> for volume two. >> Where is volume two? How many months? >> Not out yet. I'm probably I'm not I'm going to try to do it lol. >> Ah, cool. >> Yeah. Um so that was that song was called Makabe Blood and I sent it to you as a single. >> Right. Of course we did it time. >> That one did tremendously well. I mean, Kaneka in general gets a tremendous response out there, and that's a great song. >> That I felt like it was a great song. >> That was a It had an edge to it, that song. >> It It had to because it was coming around a time where we're like at war with like half the Middle East. And and and I I I figured it would be a way to give r, you know, like to people that are actually fighting for us >> to say, you know, like we're look at our ancestors and look who we've been up against. We can do this, >> right? >> It's just Iran. Just it's just calm down folks. It's only a country of 90 million people who want to kill you. >> Tal is here. JM in the AM. All right. A couple other things to clear up for me. >> First of all, you did you did the new single which we'll get to. You did it with We did it with Captainic as you said. >> I also did another single uh recently that I forgot to mention last time. It was with a guy named Eton Schmool Lieberman from Texas. >> Do I have it? >> Uh you you probably do. The song is called Sunrise, and it came out like right before the the the um Holy Outlaws album. >> I don't know if we got it here. >> So, it was a it was a um it was a cool collab that I did randomly. Yeah. how how I I bumped into this guy. Uh a friend of mine, Jason Letterman from from Fairlon, reached out to me as I was on my way to go do a show for around Pesak time and he said, "Oh, uh I have my uh my nephews in the car with me and my uh and randomly they said, "Oh, you know, they were listening to music. They were talking about Jewish music." "Oh, you know, you listen to Talia." I was like, "Dude, I just ate by his house for Shabas." Like, "What do you mean?" I was like, "Really?" I was like, "Why don't you guys like come to I'm doing a show with uh Jesse Green and you pal for for Pesak. I have some extra tickets if you guys want to come. He goes, "No, no, we're in Texas." I'm like, "Wait, wait, wait. This happened in Texas." I was like, "That's wild." >> Amazing. >> And uh so then eventually he like made the the shik, you know, and like we wound up working together. His father came in. He was like a yeshiva bucker. He came in with his dad and we we we worked on a song together and it came out and it was really good. I loved it. It was a song that he wrote and it it reminded me a lot about Jewish child. Like those kind of vibes. is about like speaking to the person that's a little off the derek and encouraging him to come back and to me it felt like I work with a lot of cure of organizations. So for me that's like a >> oh we got to get to your we're going to get to your concert tour. I know you have limited times your company sending you on a big mission today but we we do need time for the concert tour. We need time to play the single >> and um >> and there was one a couple other things someone said we were having this discussion at the Shabas table because again when your name comes up your father's name comes up. Okay. Um, and someone said that there's one Magama song that disturbs them and only Mosha Yes. could have gotten away with it. >> I know which one it is. >> Go ahead. >> A young girl named Maria. >> How do you know that? >> Because it's the only one where the >> that doesn't have a happy ending. >> Uh, it's No, it's it's it's it's the story itself is taboo to begin with because but it's the thing that unfortunately happens. So you you were about to say what that the reason was >> um well it's the one that the Msiah at 246 told me I need to change the cover on. >> Are you serious meaning the words? >> Sorry. No, he there was like a silhouette of a woman in it. >> I figured I can blur it out like Mishbucka magazine, but it wasn't good enough. But I had a >> your standards aren't as high. I had a I had a I was like okay for you know for your platform I'll I'll send you a revised version you know but that but that one was a story that unfortunately you hear about like correct and it can happen to the best of the best like I knew a guy who was like one of the most people you'll meet he's like the gaba in a he learns all the time and you know unfortunately ran off with the shika >> right oh I get it we know the reality it still took a a certain amount of courage for him to actually record it and release it and in those days it was a little bit more >> common probably. Yeah. And it it wasn't as shocking, I would think, which is weird when you think about it because today everyone's used to everything like you know. But all right, but that we could debate for for a while. But um but that was the only but again you got it right away when I said 80 wouldn't end very nicely either. I mean he dies in the end. I hate to spoiler alert. >> Wait a second. >> That was our biggest hit song. >> Well that was the biggest but I'm trying to think what would you consider my Zadei? I mean everyone loved that song. You can't imagine my Zadei in an era when if something was popular, I it stayed on top, you know, for a lot more than the 10 minutes of today. >> Oh, it was like on Art Raymond's like top list. >> Oh, it was everywhere. Are you kidding me? >> Eight years in a row. Nine years in a row. >> And not only that, but every concert, you know, and you know, and and and if anybody came up with an English ballad in Jewish music, which was not that common in those days, Journeys didn't exist in those days before Mama etc. >> But the Vegas was around. >> Yeah. But Vicus wasn't English. It wasn't It was an English balance. So it was always judged against my zade. It was always 100%. >> I did not know that. >> Was it as meaningful? Was it as dramatic? Etc. etc. >> Make you cry as much. >> Right. >> Yeah, it did. >> Oh, we also were talking about another song of your father's on Shabas. And I'm trying to remember now if it was being if it was being spoken about um how great a song it was or maybe how sad it was. Yoseph, my son. We were talking about. >> Yeah. So that's not his his writing. That's his song that he made famous. I think I touched on this last time. >> That's on that album. >> That was Morty Rockman's song >> from Destiny. >> Yeah. I guess I think he took on the stage name of Ellie Nathan. >> Correct. Boy, you know your stuff. >> And now he's like under lowkey a Russa somewhere and doesn't want anything to do with Israel or here. >> I don't know. No one tells me. He doesn't It's very hard to get ask us. He's why. He'll tell you. >> Your father knew him. >> My father knew him because in the he had a he had a Mosha coffee shop in Jerusalem after Mama split up. My father >> I remember the coffee shop >> and um Morty was a bakar that passed through the place. >> Oh, I thought Morty was also from Toronto. No, >> he it could be he is. >> Yeah, I think he was also in Toronto. >> But he he lived in Israel for a little bit or was studying in Israel or something and a lot of talent passed through that that coffee shop and he he wound up uh for my dad's first solo album. He said, "Here, I have a song for you. I think I think it might do well." >> And my dad took it and he he great. >> Ironically, I don't think your dad ever appeared on Destiny. Now that I told you, by the way, that it's his song, you can hear it in the in the writing. >> Interesting. >> Cuz he's a great storyteller. >> Correct. >> Yeah. Phenomenal. >> Well, you know what they used to say about him, but I don't know. I should say this publicly because I don't know how sensitive people are. And honestly, it's it's still a good comparison. I think they always call Destiny Journeys Light because AB stuff was deeper. No, this I don't think it's an insult, by the way. I don't think it's an insult. If AB did Yoseph My Son, it would not be as simple a song as it is and as simple a story. >> How would I say this? Jour Journeys to me was was English Jewish music catering to very mainstream central um uh you know audiences meaning in our audience in our communities. >> Destiny to me was slightly more radiating outwards on the fringe. Not quite correct but the heading in that direction. Well, if that's the case, then >> so it's like more modern orthodox, you know, >> right? And even beyond that, Colored Candles is even beyond that. >> Excellent. Yeah. >> So, okay. >> And we love that stuff. We listen to that on repeat like all phenomenal. >> So, the reality is that if you're going to try to be what you just described that Destiny became, it does pay to do things even though again that might >> he never did shows. He always just has been produced. >> Such a shame cuz it was so it was so such good material. I'm trying to think if he ever appeared on stage or anything representing Destiny ever did. I don't think so. >> It was It was a stretch to get Journeys on stage. >> I don't think he did. >> It was a stretch to get Journeys on stage, but you know, AB finally felt that, you know, Revy Schweel and company could pull it off. Yeah. >> Speaking of AB being a great caster, he actually reached out to me while I was at CVS picking up like a bunch of prescriptions from my wife who was like a pediatric empty. And he's like, he sends me a WhatsApp message. Can you can you do a Jamaican accent? And I'm like I texted him back Yaman. So I'm just good with accents. So he's like uh he's like okay. He calls me up right away on WhatsApp and I'm surrounded by a bunch of Jamaicans and the line. He's like okay do it. I'm like no I can't. >> This ain't the place. >> I can't but I I was like but he's like send me something. So I sent him this song that I then never released and I might never release it. It's a song I wrote actually in Pua. It's like a English dialect Jamaican dialect of English and it was a uh it was about how God is in everything. It's very spiritual, you know, like uh, you know, anoid vulvado vibes, you know, >> uh, but true to like authentic like Bob Marley and reggae type kind of kind of thing, like mystical reggae. And I sent it to uh to him. It was very very rough, scratchy draft. And then he's like, "Okay, oh my god, I got to put you in touch with Kanya, my son." Goes, "Oh, your son." Goes, "Okay, yeah. So, so what's what's with your son?" He goes, "Oh, >> oh, meaning Kanye." He's putting out his first album which went which did very well. called uh war on war on gravity, right? >> Just give you the idea that depth that you know correctain very very depth >> and uh so I get there >> and he's like okay we need you to do first a skit >> uh like an acting skit and then a song and the song had it was called half cup and it was about like how your cup is half full or half empty and it depends on like your perspective of how you look at life. So that was a really fun song. They got a lot of a lot of good feedback to somebody yesterday at headquarters at Infinite Care and Lakewood told me like I love this love this song. >> Spending a lot of time in Lakewood, huh? >> Yeah. Well, only for meetings for important meetings. We do stuff there. >> So I'm just looking to see cuz we did a lot of stuff off that album when it came out. It came out uh just now in March. It just came out. >> It's pretty new. Yeah. >> Uh so what' you say the name of it was? Oh, Half Cup. Here it is. It's a short song. Oh, no. The intro was short. Intro is short. The intro is short. real song is right here. >> Yeah. >> Um, you know why he called you? >> What? I >> mean, I I assume that he thought that because of your >> It would be good. >> Because of your pedigree, >> poetic to for us to work together. >> Well, not just that, but because of your pedigree, you're likely as versatile as he thought you were. >> Well, yeah. I mean, it was a it was a good pick. He said he almost scratched that song and that uh because they couldn't find a guy to do the accent, right? Sounds like >> manile. >> Boy, did we go off course this morning so far. >> We haven't done the concert tour. We haven't done the new single. And I have a comment from a listener. I need your clarification on it. Let's start with that one. Here goes. The listener writes, and I tried looking this up and I just couldn't um I couldn't figure it out based on our on our um what am I trying to say? Our collection of music here. Um oh gosh, now of course I can't find it. Hang on a second. Everyone be patient. I'm begging you. This is really important. Here it is. Can you play? They ask Tal's version of David Cohen's bar mitzvah now. >> Yeah, I can do that. >> Wait a second. >> Oh, asking if I can play it or if you can play it. >> No, they asked me. >> Oh, >> no. Meaning knowing you're coming in. >> I only know my version. >> No, but knowing you're coming in, they asked that question. So, here's my question. >> I did that song with Luzy Klatskco. Rob been seeing Klasco's son. >> Wait a second. Slow slow down. >> Yeah. >> I went to the S Legacy album, It's Not You on David Cohen's Baritza. It's >> I wasn't on the S Legacy album. It sure is. >> Not my version. >> Correct. >> Yeah. >> Someone else did it, >> right? Yeah. I'd be wrong did it. >> Correct. It was a correct. >> When you released >> How could you forget? >> Yeah. I just looked at it 10 minutes ago. I should have remembered. When you released the um what I have in my library as as uh as Tali Yes. doing Mama. That's what I have in my library. Tom. Okay. Which you did what a year ago? Like I I did a bunch of covers of my dad's, maybe like 10 or 10 of them already. Maybe 12. >> So I was wondering if it was just that you remastered them or you actually were on them. >> So I both So I one second I I I got the album the original Magama albums remastered in high definition. >> Correct. Which we call your version of it. At least that's how we refer to HD the HD. >> Correct. >> I've also done until I was able to find unopened mint copies of the records to do that remastering. I was trying to figure out how to get the music back out there again. because what we had was really scratched up transfers and it sounded terrible. >> So I did covers of quite a few of the songs. One of them was David Collins Baritzvet and it was with Lozi Klatskco of Rabbi Klatskco fame from M. >> Why don't we have that one? >> You should. It's everywhere. >> That's so funny. I sent that out to you. >> All we have here is Mama Tales David Cones and that's what I assume is the remaster. >> So download it. It's download. Yeah, you can play that. Sure. >> Oh my gosh. Hey listener, ask me on a different day. Give me time to repair here. >> Well, I can do a live if you want. >> That would be amazing. By the way, >> Leslie was great cuz Lozie had turn this microphone on. >> Lzie was a young uh bucker at the time. So, I I casted him. >> What do you mean? How long ago was this? >> It was maybe four years ago. And I casted him to be the the do the bar mitzvah speech for the kid. Like I want to thank the Revs. He had like the octave higher. >> Yeah. But he was no bucker at that point. The guy's got kids and the whole thing. >> No. Luzie Klat. >> Oh, Luzi is one of the kids. Got it. Kids. Sorry about that. All his kids are legends. I confuse him with his father. >> All right. Ready? >> Yep. I'm always ready. >> The Cadillac. No, I got to warm up. I'm not usually singing at 8:00 in the morning. >> Yeah, they all say that. The Cadillacs were all lined up in the driveway. Mink so many colors were on display. The caterer was the best that money can buy. It was David Cohen's bar mouth day. It was David Cohen's bar. Uncle Abe flew in from Cincinnati. Aunt Becky drove up from Miami Beach. And the rabbi was watching with a tear in his eye. As David Co read his bar mitzvah speech. I want to thank the rabbi, my mother, and my father. Today I am a man by Jewish law. I accept all of my Jewish obligations. I acknowledge that there is only one God. I acknowledge that there is only one God. That was the last time David Cohen saw Rabbi his talis filling. They got lost. He's now a lawyer up in Sacramento. Looking back, it wasn't worth the cost. I want to thank the rabbi, my mother, and my father. Today, I am a man by Jewish law. I accept all of my Jewish obligations. I acknowledge that there is only one God. I acknowledge that there is only one God. All right, that was it. >> Unbelievable. >> Thank you. Unbelievable. >> Tali in studio JM in the AM. All right. A couple of things. First of all, >> you have the big concert tour coming up. >> Yeah. I got to pull up those dates for you. >> Kabad of the Melands, May 26. That's a week from yesterday. A week from yesterday. Kabad of the Metallands means what? In Rutherford, New Jersey. Right here. Rutherford. Yeah. >> Literally right here. >> Yeah. Well, right here. Close enough. >> Yeah. Kabad of Bedford. Where is that? Up near the Catskills. >> Yeah, >> that's happening on May 28th. >> Yeah, I've been there before. They're bringing me back. I'm very excited. Yeah. >> Do they got a crowd up there? >> They got a crowd. Yeah. It's a It's a It's um again, you know, I work with a lot of curve organizations, so it's not going to be like Madison Square Garden. They have a crowd, but they have a nice community and they love getting together for things and it turned out they know it was a really nice turnout last time I went and the communities in Kabad tend to grow, >> right? >> So, we'll see what five years will do or so. >> It must be cool to be in Bedford. You're right in the middle of all of of festival land. like, you know, so it's like every music festival on planet Earth has been there. >> Yeah. >> In that area. >> I played out there a few times actually. The Sabba Music Fest was uh near where they did the original Woodstock and I played that one a couple times. >> Amazing. >> So yeah, exciting stuff. >> On May 31st, you're in New Haven, Connecticut at the Orchard Street Shel. >> Yep. >> Um you're going to California in the middle of June. >> Yeah. It turns out it's going to be in Santa Barbara uh for Kabara Monteceto, >> right? >> Yeah. So it's going to be fun. I've never been to Santa Barbara before. I've been all all over California, but I don't remember ever being in Santa Barbara or San Diego. >> So, they know you everywhere. >> No, I get around. >> Is Israel checking in on your music or not? >> Very much so. >> Seriously? >> I think Tel Aviv is one of my highest uh listening cities. I was laughing about it. >> You got to do an Israel tour. >> You know what's You know what blew my mind? Brazil. >> How do you figure? >> I I don't I have no idea what what possessed them to listen to me out there in in soccer country. And then in the middle of July, actually the end of July, right after Tishabove, you'll be in Hudson, New York. That's also up there in the uh in the New York State region, I assume. >> Yeah. Kabad of Colombia County. >> Yeah. >> Boy, there seems to be a lot of Kabads out there. >> They're all over. You know what's crazy? This past year, um cuz you know, for many years, I've also done like voiceover work and things. I'm like the, for example, like the Zadei for Bella Braha and a couple other little projects and things. I was I was on the amazing Torah bike. It was binyam and >> oh wait how many years ago was that? >> That was very that was my first uh gig ever but like I did like commercial video and things like that for JLI and other retreats and things like that. Kabad this year called me to do the the roll call video that to do at the annual convention. >> I I saw it this year. That was you. >> That was me. >> Nice. I think I knew this. I think I knew this. I wanted to >> 500 mcvoys 300 in >> and I wanted to text you. I seriously I wanted to text you. Yeah. >> To let you know how good it is. Thinking that if it came from me, you'd really appreciate it. >> Very much so. Yeah. >> And I don't know if I ever got to it or not, but that was a great great presentation. >> Yeah. Knowing how much my father worked with Kabad and how much you love Kabad, it was probably giving him a lot of nas to see me up there. >> How old were you when he left us? >> Uh 15 years ago. So I was 30. >> Wow. >> Just about. Yeah. >> So you knew the whole history already. I mean you knew everything before he left us. >> Yeah. It was uh >> all the songs, the stories. >> Yeah. There's a lot going on. >> We went into We went into a lot of this last time. Check out the archive section of noms single.com, folks. Uh, all right. So, that performance Columbia County is going to be right after Tishabuff. >> Yeah, >> you'll be up at back at upstate New York. Information, go to tales.com. >> tales.com and, uh, you get an opportunity >> in Rutherford. You don't have to be from Kabad. >> No, not at all. >> You can just show up to Kabad of the Meadowlands a week from a week from yesterday. >> People show up to Kabads all the time. That's one of the >> Oh, yeah. They don't they don't turn away anybody. the Airbnb of Judaism. You know, just this week, I actually sent my Mashpia from Montreal Pearlstein. I sent him uh my wife's uh friend has a cousin that's going to Montreal with a bunch of friends. She's like, "Oh, where are we going to eat for Shabas?" I'm like, "Hold my beer. I got you." You know, and like we basically called uh he's like, "Of course, yeah, we'd love to have them." >> It's quite a network, huh? >> It's great. >> Unbelievable. The only network bigger than Kabad they say is like the uh you know the the funy network on in in in in the world where they have all the little like mushroom roots that all connect to one another. >> The only one that's more populous. They say >> they always take second place. They always compare them to the Coca-Cola. They always have to be second. >> Well, they say wherever the Coca-Cola sold, you'll find them there. I had something I wanted to do for you today. It's possible. If First of all, if you can play the >> We got to do the single. Yeah, >> the single. But I have another one if we have time. >> You tell me if we have time. I'll give you we'll play the single and then I'll do one more. Uh I'll do I'll I'll give you a taste of something that's coming on the next. >> All right. Live music alert Wednesday. That's right. It turned into a live music alert with Tali. Yes. He's got a brand new one. It's called Toreta. Of course, originally recorded by his father, the late great Mosha. Yes. This is with Hilal Kapnik. And it's being released today because guess what? Tomorrow night starts the holiday of Shabuis. Torah SA. It is Tales. Hillel Kapnik. You're listening to the best place for brand new Jewish music, JM and the A.M. My love my Russy. What's new for evil for sure night in the night and the Night. I night in the night. In the night. And in the night. And night. Russia. And in the night, in the night and the night. And in the night and the night. In the night and the night. In the night in the night. In the night in the night in the night in the night in the night in the night in the night and the night in the night and night and the night In the night in the night in the night of the night. in the night. Oh, if people only saw what was going on behind the scenes here. All right, there it is. Toreta, the great Moshi single, the cover done by Tali and Hill Kapnik. And Tali has one foot out the door. He's got this major appointment to go to, but he says before he leaves, he's got to do something for us. Tally, what are you doing for us? So, this is going to be a song for my uh my next album uh which is kind of called Holy Outlaws Volume Two. After the success of the first one, I figured, you know, why not just keep the same branding? All that brand equity is worth something. >> And so, um it's probably going to be the first track on the song and on the album. Yeah, sorry. On the album. And the song is called Jewish American, Not American Jew. And I'm hoping with the three hours of sleep I got that I'll be able to remember all the words. >> It's radio. You could have brought a cheat sheet. >> I was raised on dust and freedom with a flag out in the yard. The Torah lit my fire and it still beats in my heart. You can question all my choices. Try to curse me till I'm mad. But my covenant runs deeper than the stars upon that flag. Who I don't flinch and I don't run. I'll always be a chosen one. I'm a Jewish American and not an American Jew. Those words mean something to me. They should mean something to you. They get lock me up in prison. Throw me in a hearse. No matter where I live, I'll always be a Jew first. From the shadows of my fathers to the deserts of the west. Every mile is a witness that our faith adds to the test. You can take away my fortune. Strip my body. Beat me down. But a sham's name is on my lips when you lay me in the ground. I don't flinch and I don't run. will always be a chosen one. I'm a Jewish American, not an American Jew. Those words mean something to me. They should mean something to you. They can lock me up in prison, throw me in a hearse. No matter where I live, I'll always be a Jew first. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Tell a yes. >> Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. >> By the way, >> I like this one very much. >> We can tell you're a yes. >> Why is that? >> Only your family >> Yeah. >> would toss in a line like throw me in a hearse. >> Only that's only you. >> We're gritty. >> And exactly. And I mean, I don't know if we discussed this last time or not, and I know you have to run. >> Yeah. >> But there are a couple of lines. >> Yeah. >> You know what I'm talking about already. There are a couple lines in the history >> like Annabelle. the correct. That's one. >> I actually covered that one, but I didn't put it out, so I'm thinking about it. Oh, I shouldn't even tell this on the radio. >> You know, it's funny. It's >> It's like to me that one is like the Chalkaw Ridge of of of my dad's >> That was originally on which album? >> Um I think it was on the first solo album, >> meaning Pil. >> No. >> Oh, meaning still on LP? >> Yeah, I think so. >> Wow. >> I think it was. Yeah. And I don't know if I was brave enough last time to bring up another example I had and I'm not going to do it. No, we're not doing this now. >> What's that one? >> I can't do it now. I didn't even know if I would say it to you on the air, frankly. >> Okay, fine. All right. So, don't say it on the air. >> Cuz your father sent me a cassette. >> Oh, yeah. Don't say that one. >> Oh, you know what I'm talking about. You do know what I'm talking about. >> Yeah, the wacky albums. >> Yeah. >> Holy cow, Tally. >> I had a uh >> you know the whole routine. Of course, I know the routine, but I also know that he had a he had a change of heart about a lot of those things like at the last at the last minute. >> Yeah. >> And I I understand after losing two parents what grief can do to you >> and it can get you into like such a weird place. >> Meaning when he lost his second parent? >> Uh, no. >> Is that what you meant or No, >> you meant when you did. >> No, I'm saying when I lost my when I lost my parents. Like I had to work through all these things and I >> And you're saying that made you appreciate what he was going through then? It it made me understand him a little better um and not be so judgy about it because it's a powerful it's a powerful thing >> that I hear >> like when you you know like uh my father had a an incredible amount of emotion and I think he worked through them eventually but uh you hear a lot of them on some of the albums that you can't find anywhere. It's interesting because um I always tell my friends and for some reason I'm having deja vu that you and I have discussed this before but I always tell my friends who've lost their second parent to be prepared. I say this to them during Shiva because that experience is nothing like when you lost the first one. >> Yeah. >> When you become an orphan, you could be 50 years old. >> You grow up you grow up really fast. >> And not just that, but it's a whole different mentality. >> You're a different you're a different person. >> You go into survival mode. That's that's one way of putting again >> the the yes extreme descriptions. >> You have no fall back. You have no you don't have a house to go to. You're if you lose your apartment, you're you're not going back to >> correct. And some family and friends can detect it and others can't. >> Yeah. >> But you have to be self-aware of it. That's so cool. Do you understand what I'm saying? >> And um and but but >> and then in general and and this is such an important point and I discussed this with AB. you should know once your father passed away. I I spoke to AB about it >> because I figured who would have more insight into your father, you know, from the outside than he would, >> right? >> And we were both a bit confused about it. This this what you call I don't know >> his grief stage. >> Yeah. But what did you what did you call it? You called it a turn. What you just call it like a he he looked at things differently. Certain things he just he changed his attitude toward >> Yeah. No. No. the very very very end he changes his tone towards it and he all the things that he was pushing he just kind of like I don't know he just made peace with with everything that he was denying. So he he worked through uh he worked through it and thank goodness at the last minute but um >> which is comforting to people like me by the way I didn't know that. Yeah. I mean, but you know, you have such tremendous respect for somebody and then you lose them and all of a sudden like uh your your brain if you don't have somebody to actually walk you through what you're about to experience and the roller coaster that it is. >> Did he feel that our community at large somewhat disappointed him or let him down? And again, not on purpose. I mean, >> feeling for a lot of people was mutual, but then again, like they weren't going through it. He was >> right. >> You know, it's it's important to take mental health serious and and and if you have lost somebody, get a grief counselor. I had paid a really expensive one and helped me work through stuff and and I came out healthier because of it. But like uh you can't you can't you can't put a price on that even because if you don't the cost of not doing it is way greater. >> Wow. You know, >> call it a vote. Anyway, >> call it a vote. Boy. >> Yeah. My pleasure. >> I cherish our friendship. I don't know how you feel, but I I I love the fact that you and I are friends. >> Me, too. >> I appreciate that. And good luck with the tour. We'll remind everybody as we get closer to the events. Of course, the big one or I should say the first one in this area is just 6 days from now on the 26th of May in Rutherford, New Jersey. Kabad of the Meadowlands. You go to tales.com for information on that. >> Thank you. >> Toreta, you know it's going to be part of our show tomorrow obviously in honor of Shuis. >> Tali, thank you. >> On my way to uh to Montreal tonight. >> Are you heading up to Montreal? >> Yeah, my family is there. All my siblings. I'm the only one who lives out here. So, we're we're doing shoo with the family. >> You're sle everybody up. >> Yeah, that's it. >> Wow. Driving back Memorial Day or what? >> Uh yeah, it looks like either Sunday or Memorial Day. One or the other. But we'll be uh we'll be on the road with lots of time to listen to music and that's >> taking in Canadians game or not. >> They don't. No, >> they they I I I stopped letting them disappoint me in 93. >> But I think they're still in it. >> You know what? Two a day late and a dollar short. >> Wow. Listen to him. A frustrated sports fan to say the least. Holly on a Wednesday live music alert Wednesday at JM in the A.M. I've walked through the dust with just my shadow for friend. Felt the heat on my back and the night never end. Every mile took a piece. Every fight took some skin. But I kept on moving cuz I won't give in. But when the ground shakes hard and the sky turns red, I hold to the words that my father said. Ain't no higher power that has felt. He's the one that you'll call in the lion's dead. Through the sweat, the blood I rise again. Cuz there ain't no higher power than I've been cold in the rain. I've been burned by the sun. I've lost more than I want, but the fight ain't done. Got scars on my hands from the lines I've crossed. But I count it all worth for the ground I've lost. In the dark moves in and I can't see when I lean on the truth that's been mine since then. They know how power is. He's the one in your cold in the lion's den. Through the sweat and the blood, I'll rise again. Cuz there ain't no higher power than If I'm outnumbered 1 to 10, I'll still hold my ground till the very end. Ain't no higher power than he's the one that you'll call in the lion's d through the sweat and the blood I'll rise again cuz there ain't no higher power than ain't no higher power that has JM in the A.M. Live Music Alert uh Wednesday with Tali. Yes. Wow. Is that great or what? That was great. He's amazing. He He's just amazing. He's just amazing. Simple as that. The Toreta, the brand new one. I'm sure it'll be in tomorrow's show here at JM. Uh just incredible.