Too Young To Sing the Blues

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#		Title	Length
1		lookin' for love	2:27
2		home	2:29
3		so bad	3:38
4		misuderstood	3:00
5		60 dollars	2:37
6		too young TO sing the blues	3:15
7		human	2:54
8		i don't have a heart	3:10
9		i fell on a dime	3:48
10		didn't i	3:19
11		solitude lane	2:28
12		don't want to be buried when I'm dead	3:06
13		noBody but me	2:49

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"Too Young To Sing the Blues" is the title of Arum Rae's debut record. On the all original, full-length album, Arum is accompanied by world class musicians: Todd Sickafoose from Ani Difranco on upright bass, drummer Andrew Borger from Tom Waitts and Norah Jones, and Larry Saltzman from Paul Simon on banjo and slide guitar. "Too Young To Sing The Blues" also features New York's only Gerelde Menke on pedal steel. Recorded in Brooklyn, New York at Bushwick Studios, produced by Michael Bongiorno, another from Ani's team, alongside studio owner Josh Kessler, who also lent himself on guitar. The state of the album's independence and/or record label support has yet to be determined but in the meantime Arum is back and forth from NYC to the country in Virginia down through Atlanta and occasionally Nashville. Arum is accompanied with the band in the city but also appearing solo for those in the country and beyond.
Arum Rae did not follow the beaten path of most singer/songwriters. She didn't write songs, she didn't join a band, and she didn't do much performing. It was at the urging of her high school music teacher that she applied to Berklee College of Music at the age of 18. Arum was accepted and granted scholarships on the merit of her vocal ability. At Berklee she majored in Music Business and Management but toward the end of her senior year she started writing and singing her own original music.
After graduation Arum moved from Boston to be with her family in central Virginia. Nine miles up the mountain, in her mother's log cabin she honed her songwriting skills and started to get her toes wet in playing for the community in Rockbridge County VA. One gig lent itself to another... after winning the Open Air Waves Talent Contest, Arum was given the slot on the local college radio 91.5 WLUR to play and record a live cd. This took her on to playing Charlottesville's live music scene which also put her on 91.9 WNRN's Acoustic Sunrise. Arum has gone on and continues to play shows in Northern Vinginia and Maryland where she won honorable mention in the 22nd Annual Mid-Atlantic Song Contest for her song "Too Young To Sing The Blues" as well as opening up for Grammy nominated blues singer Shemekia Copeland, and Nashville's current top ten artist Danielle Peck.
To keep keepin' on, Arum then started trucking it up to New York City once a month to play shows at Columbia's famed PostCrypt Coffee House as well as her once a month residency at the lower east side Rockwood Music Hall, all the while searching for the right situation to record a formal full-length album. It was after a music festival last year (2005) that Arum approached and met friends who played and worked with Ani Difranco. Timing is everything because Ani decided to take a year off from touring which meant that Michael Bongiorno (producer) and Todd Sickafoose (bass) were available and looking for a new project! And now, not even a year later the product "Too Young To Sing The Blues" is in hand!
Arum's career so far has been an intentionally independant one with much support from friends and exceptional musicians who have guided her to planting permanent and growing roots in the americana music scene. Arum continues to play up and down the east coast to growing and captivated audiences.