 He produced and recorded with The Band, Arlen Roth, Warren Bernhardt, Pat Alger, Tony Levin, John Sebastian, Richie Havens, Maria Muldaur, Eric Andersen, Paul Butterfield, Paul Siebel, Rory Block, James Taylor, Pete Seeger, David Grisman, Livingston Taylor, Michael Franks and Happy Traum, among others.Traum's songs were featured on PBS, BBC, ESPN, CBS, and The Weather Channel.He toured in Japan, Europe and the U.S.

Born and raised in the Bronx, Traum became a part of the Greenwich Village folk music scene in the late 1950s.