Loving Takes This Course / Various Loving Takes This Course / Various CD

Limited two CD pressing of this 2009 tribute album contains a bonus disc featuring original versions of the songs performed by Kath Bloom. Disc One contains sixteen artists from around the world, who come together to pay tribute to the arresting, gorgeous songs of Connecticut Folksinger Kath Bloom. 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 artists such as Bill Callahan, Devendra Banhart, Mark Kozelek, the Dodos and Scout Niblett. 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. 31 tracks.

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