About Me

Believe! EP is here!
Click on the CD below to listen/download it for FREE.
Summer 2009 Tour Vlog Episode 1 (all 4 episodes HERE ).
Summer 2009 Tour Vlog Episode 4
Debut album "Things I Will Need in the Past" out now!!!
or buy a hard copy on CD BABY (click the CD) for the sweet album art!!!
Artwork done by Three Bears Design
Album available at
Wazoo Records (336 1/2 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI),
Encore Records (417 E. Liberty St, Ann Arbor)
and
Underground Sounds (255 E. Liberty St, Ann Arbor.)
Track listing:
1. Andromeda
2. All the Life Around
3. Strike a Chord
4. Amber Light
5. Magnolia Wine
6. Ellilpsis
7. Skin & Bones (ft. Darren Criss)
8. Bonnie Parker
9. Bound Red Gideon
10. Human
11. Different Colored Eyes
Watch the new music video for "Magnolia Wine"!!
from Things I Will Need in the Past
Music video for "Skin and Bones"

"Mad Tom of Bedlam" live at the Blind Pig 1.15.09

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 24/04/2005
Band Website: http://www.charlenekaye.com
Band Members:

presently:

charlene kaye - piano, guitar, vocals
james hart - bass, mandolin
emily haltom - violin
taryn wood - cello
jared saltiel - guitar, drums
dave koenig - upright bass
miguel mcquade - drums
woody goss - wurlitzer
kiana weber - violin

other people i love who also play with me:
darren criss - vocals, guitar
michael swain - drums
laurel premo - dobro, banjo

for booking, questions, and other nice things, email me at [email protected].

Influences: Jim Roll, Perhapsy, The Dirty Birds, Liann Kaye, Alex Brumel & Janel Elizabeth, Darren Criss, Laurel Premo, Matt Jones, Luke Winslow-King, Cesspool, Matt Jones, M. Ward, Rufus Wainwright, Jenny Lewis, Jens Lekman, Belle & Sebastian, Joni Mitchell, Andrew Bird, mccormick road, Sufjan, reading, prog rock, chamber music, pop radio, traveling, musical theater, disney, taking entirely too many pictures, the books, tumbling towers on weeknights, never on time, IHOP at 3 am, art history, arizona, burt bacharach, coffee shops with big windows, oceans, steam engines, pumpkin flavored things, desert storms, string arrangements, the ones I haven't met, three-part harmonies, elliott smith, and the idea of something else.
Sounds Like: everyone i've ever loved.

Metro Times
Real Detroit
the Michigan Daily
SongsIllinois
Sarah's music blog
Michiganbands.com
The Ann Arbor news
the Eastern Echo
Current
Kalamazoo Gazette
Mic Control

Record Label: None
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

DIRTY BIRDS ALBUM!!!

The Dirty Birds album teaser - How the Cause Became the Cure from Charlene Kaye on Vimeo. Yeah, im way too excited about this&my favoritest ann arbor band THE DIRTY B...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:58:00 GMT

TOUR VIDEOS/NEWS!!!

OHMYGOD YOU GUYS!! TOUR VIDEOS ARE HEREEEEELet me say first, that it was truly a challenge to condense the hour and a half of footage we had into these four 7ish minute long videos. The camera went fr...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:57:00 GMT

tweet tweet!!

achtung, lieblings!!!I have a twitter account. follow me!! http://www.twitter.com/charlenekaye.hilarious videos/pictures from tour on their way. <3 c
Posted by on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:42:00 GMT

Single Barrel Detroit

In February, Taryn and I were filmed playing in an abandoned building for Single Barrel Detroit's video series (similar to La Blogotheque) and the videos are finally done - check them out HERE. the...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:30:00 GMT

free download of Believe! EP

Hey guys!I have recorded a small EP of sorts- 5 songs with just me solo on piano (3 new originals and 2 covers). And the best part is, it's freeeeeeee, available for download at the bottom of this po...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:59:00 GMT

BELIEVE! EP

I have a new EP!And it will be available for FREE at the Blind Pig show tomorrow night with Anna Ash and Laurel Premo. Only 100 handmade copies made by yours truly, so don't be late! doors at 9:30, ...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:21:00 GMT

Listen to Perhapsy!

My dear friend Derek Barber, songwriter, obscure pop culture enthusiast and former musical partner in crime (he lives in Nashville nowadays) has just made a record for his musical project, Perhapsy (s...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:34:00 GMT

MAGNOLIA WINE VIDEO!!

IT'S DONE! HALLELUJIAH!! make us happy and give it a looksee, we've been slaving over it for a month. Directed by Liann Kaye, Director of Photography Mark Arnold! much love!Charlene
Posted by on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:03:00 GMT

Just a little Cesscover

hahaha. i love this band. myspace.com/cesspoolcesspool!!!!!
Posted by on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:05:00 GMT

WCBN show downloadable!

Ahoy, friends!Caveman-style, I attacked my computer today equipped with a bowl of cereal, my dinosaur-like grasp on technology and the single determined goal of being able to share our WCBN show in Ja...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:25:00 GMT