Kath Bloom
Kath Bloom will be playing at End Of The Road Festival 2010. Buy your tickets now!
Kath Bloom is some kind of legend. She comes from a special place where country, blues and folk are made beautifully translucent and emotive. Highly regarded but a bit of a mystery. The Connecticut based singer/songwriter has a special gift - her almost supernaturally beautiful, wavering soprano is one that has to be heard, with a clear transparent moonlight quality that silences a room.
Kath made some very, very limited edition albums in the 70’s and 80’s with the amazingly (and equally dreamlike) guitarist Loren Mazzacane Connors, full of songs that float and melt into the ether. Impossibly beautiful. However music was put on the back burner as life changed and she raised a family, trained ‘problem horses’ and taught special
music programmes to kids. Just as she was starting to write and release CD-R’s again, Richard Linklater decided to use her song ‘Come Here’ in his 1995 film ‘Before Sunrise’. Life altered - not much - but the public conciousness was rightfully tweaked. Slowly her old recordings and new material have been seeping back into the world. This included a special tribute album by artists such as Josephine Foster, Bill Callahan, Devendra Banhart, Mark Kozelek and Scout Niblet.
One thing Bloom is not doing is resting on her laurels. The songwriting continues as penetrating and prolific as ever. Her newest album, Thin Thin Line is out on Mark Kozelek’s Caldo Verde Records. Likely, it will burn a hole straight to your soul on the first listen. She is something else.
