Kath Bloom's lonely, love-filled songs are some of the most beautiful and heartbreaking ever written, but since a series of limited edition LPs recorded in the early 80s with avant-garde guitarist Loren Mazzacane Connors, her only output has been a handful of CD-Rs available by mailorder from her website, and one song Come Here on the soundtrack to Richard Linklater's 1995 movie Before Sunrise.
So starts the booklet of this loveable compilation that chronicles this relatively unknown but very soft spoken folk singer through the 90s. While her music is for the most part the traditional acoustic guitar + voice combination there definitely is a fair bit of a country tinge in a lot of her songs. This is most evident in songs that feature more than one instrument. With or without extra instrumentation this is some damn fine folking around. I'm not familiar with her chronological career but this bundle of songs is so comfortable I don't really even feel the need for anything else. This music is having a cup of warm tea while there's rain and fog outside and you're in your living room, watching the streets through the window while time slowly passes away. Recommended.