Kim Edwards New Single WHEN WE WERE YOUNG Out Now!

Kim Edwards is very pleased to announce that her new single "When We Were Young" is available now! Featuring Jared Salte from The Royal Foundry, the song can now be heard via Soundcloud here!

Edwards never intended for the follow-up single to her critically-acclaimed 2015 release Lovers and Loners (which Elmore called "a flawless set of songs that woos the listener on first encounter and simply refuses to let go") to take two years to complete; and she never planned on it being a duet. Yet fate finds a way, and the Pennsylvania native's new track with Jared Salte from The Royal Foundry gives us a glimpse of a creative force striding confidently forward into a new dimension of musical maturity.

Her 2012 full-length album Wanderlust debuted at #25 on the iTunes Singer-Songwriter chart and led to performances with artists such as Jars of Clay, Shirock, and Zerbin and a spot in the acclaimed NY Songwriters Circleshowcase. In 2015, she released Lovers and Loners. In September of that year she began work on her next single, but was beset by delays. Instead of giving in to frustration, Edwards changed direction.

Edwards turned to Salte for production help on her new single. He sensed Edwards' new artistic openness and decided to seize the moment. "I sent Jared the track which felt finished to me at the time," relates Edwards. "Jared sent back a rough mix of the track, with a note that he had added music for a chorus and trimmed the bridge. I loved it, and I wrote lyrics for the chorus. So yeah, it was a bit of an 'accidental co-write'!"

"When We Were Young" represents the next stage of Edwards' evolution as an artist, yet it's still very much a Kim Edwards song. While it marks the beginning of a new season for her artistically, there's an honesty to Edwards' work that's unmistakable. "You can dress up a song in a lot of different ways sonically," she says, "and those new options can really enhance and expand the way I write, but at the end of the day, it's still me. I still feel like I'm figuring out my sound and my art. Maybe that's all part of being an artist -- understanding that it is a never-ending process of artistic evolution. Come and watch me grow."

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