Various Artists

Loving Takes This Course - A Tribute To the Songs of Kath Bloom

Tracklist

  1. Marble Sounds - Come Here.
  2. Bill Callahan - The Breeze/My Baby Cries
  3. Laura Jean - When I See You
  4. Mark Kozelek - Finally
  5. Mick Turner & Peggy Frew - Window
  6. Devendra Banhart - Forget About Him
  7. Scout Niblett - I Wanna Love
  8. The Dodos - Biggest Light Of All
  9. Josephine Foster - Look At Me
  10. Mia Doi Todd - Ready Or Not
  11. Corrina Repp - Fall Again
  12. Marianne Dissard & Joey Burns - It's So Hard To Come Home
  13. Amy Rude - In Your School
  14. Tom Hanford - If This Journey
  15. Meg Baird - There Was A Boy
  16. The Concretes - Come Here
  17. Come Here
  18. Kath Bloom & Loren Connors - The Breeze/My Baby Cries
  19. Kath Bloom & Loren Connors - When I See You
  20. Finally
  21. Kath Bloom & Loren Connors - Window
  22. Forget About Him
  23. I Wanna Love
  24. Kath Bloom, Loren Connors, Tom Hanford - Biggest Light Of All
  25. Kath Bloom & Loren Connors - Look At Me
  26. Ready Or Not
  27. Fall Again
  28. Kath Bloom & Loren Connors - It's So Hard To Come Home
  29. In Your School
  30. If This Journey
  31. Kath Bloom & Loren Connors - There Was A Boy

About the album

“One of the most heartbreaking singers ever. Beautiful.” - Devendra Banhart
“I consider myself her biggest fan.” - Josephine Foster
“I've never enjoyed sharing a bill with anyone as much as I have with Kath. She's wonderful and lights up the room wherever she goes.” - Mark Kozelek                   


ORIGINAL 2009 PRESS RELEASE:

Sixteen artists from around the world come together to pay tribute to the arresting, gor- geous songs of Connecticut folksinger Kath Bloom.

Since the mid 70s, Kath has beguiled listeners with her haunting voice and powerfully honest songwriting. In the 1980s she made six albums with avant-garde guitarist Loren Connors which are now highly prized collector’s items. Then in the 1990s her bewitching song Come Here transfigured the Richard Linklater film Before Sunrise.

But it is in the last few years that Kath Bloom has truly come into her own. Beginning with the Chapter Music album Finally in 2006, Kath has begun to reach a whole new generation of fans, including many who make music themselves.

Compiled over two years by Chapter’s Guy Blackman and San Francisco filmmaker Caveh Zahedi (who first met Kath in 1980), Loving Takes This Course features artsts such as Bill Callahan, Devendra Banhart, Mark Kozelek, The Dodos and Scout Niblett.

Loving Takes This Course is a two disc set, featuring one disc of covers and one of the original versions of Kath’s songs.

Release Date: 2009-06-05