Pitchfork

The freak-folk scene is all about showing love to its unappreciated ancestors. Up until recently, the Connecticut songwriter Kath Bloom was probably better-known for landing a song on the Before Sunrise soundtrack than for a career that spans more than three decades. All of a sudden, though, she's teetering on a Vashti Bunyan level of rebirth, as Chapter Music gets set to release its double-disc Bloom tribute Loving Takes This Course: A Tribute to the Songs of Kath Bloom on April 7.

The album, compiled by Chapter Music's Guy Blackman and I Am a Sex Addict director (and Will Oldham co-conspirator) Caveh Zahedi features one disc of indie heavyweights like Devendra Banhart, Bill Callahan, Mark Kozelek, the Concretes, and the Dodos covering Bloom's songs and a second disc of the original songs themselves. So it'll be easy to figure out right away whether Devendra did her justice or not.

This month and next, Bloom will play a few scattered shows in the U.S.

Loving Takes This Course: A Tribute to the Songs of Kath Bloom:

Disc one, covers:

01 Marble Sounds: "Come Here"
02 Bill Callahan: "The Breeze/My Baby Cries"
03 Laura Jean: "When I See You"
04 Mark Kozelek: "Finally"
05 Mick Turner and Peggy Frew: "Window"
06 Devendra Banhart: "Forget About Him"
07 Scout Niblett: "I Wanna Love"
08 The Dodos: "Biggest Light of All"
09 Josephine Foster: "Look at Me"
10 Mia Doi Todd: "Ready or Not"
11 Corrina Repp: "Fall Again"
12 Marianne Dissard and Joey Burns of Calexico: "It's So Hard to Come Home"
13 Amy Rude: "In Your School"
14 Tom Hanford: "If This Journey"
15 Meg Baird of Espers: "There Was a Boy"
16 The Concretes: "Come Here"

Disc two, originals:

01 Come Here
02 The Breeze/My Baby Cries
03 When I See You
04 Finally
05 Window
06 Forget About Him
07 I Wanna Love
08 Biggest Light of All
09 Look at Me
10 Ready or Not
11 Fall Again
12 It's So Hard to Come Home
13 In Your School
14 If This Journey
15 There Was a Boy
16 Come Here

Kath Bloom dates:

02-06 Lake Worth, FL - Mother Earth
02-07 Miami, FL - Luna Star
02-22 New York, NY - The Annex
03-05 Santa Barbara, CA - Muddy Waters
03-06 Los Angeles, CA - McCabes Guitar Shop
03-07 Big Sur, CA - Fernwood Resort
03-08 San Francisco, CA - Cafe Du Nord