Listeners who pay attention to the lyrics will hear enough clues to guess something about Tommy and June’s lives. But label co-founder Fat Mike—who assembled the duo like an impresario from rock ’n’ roll’s past—wants to maintain the mystery. He will say that he met Tommy in Israel a dozen years ago and encountered June, an Iranian who lives in Colombia, on tour in South America. Both were great songwriters but had never met. At the urging of Fat Mike, the unlikely duo – a Jew from Israel, and a Colombian Arab – united in the studio, and the result is 10 clean, simple, catchy tracks; clocking in at 20 minutes.
