Kath Bloom & Loren Connors

Katherine Bloom Is An American Singer-Songwriter Based In Litchfield Connecticut Whose Sad Voice Often Accompanies Simple Folk Melodies. The Daughter Of Oboist Robert Bloom Kath Grew Up In New Haven Where She Studied The Cello As A Child And Started Playing The Guitar When She Was A Teenager. She Collaborated With Bruce Neumann In The Early '70s But It Wasn't Until She Met Avant-Garde Guitarist Loren MazzaCane Connors In 1976 That She Started Recording. Bloom And Connors Recorded Multiple Albums Of Fragile Simple Folk And Blues Melodies The Majority Of Which Were Written By Bloom Herself. Their Collaboration Ended In 1984 With The Release Of Their Final Album Moonlight Of Which Only 300 Copies Were Pressed. Bloom Stopped Recording New Material Soon After Her Collaboration With Connors Ended And A Period Of Financial Hardship Followed. A Single Mother Bloom Focused On Raising Her Children Rarely Playing Shows Outside Of New Haven. Director Richard Linklater Discovered Bloom's Music Sometime In The Early '90s And Subsequently Featured Her Song "Come Here" In His 1995 Film Before Sunrise. Encouraged By Linklater's Interest In Her Music Bloom Started Writing New Songs And Released Her First Album In Over Ten Years Come Here The Florida Years In 1999. Loren MazzaCane Connors Born October 22 1949 New Haven Connecticut Is An American Experimental Musician Who Has Recorded And Performed Under Several Different Names Guitar Roberts Loren Mazzacane Loren Mattei And Currently Loren Connors. He Is A Prolific Collaborator Who Has Worked With Artists Including Alan Licht Jim O'Rourke Bassist Darin Gray Thurston Moore John Fahey Keiji Haino Jandek Suzanne Langille Avant Garde Poet Steve Dalachinsky Chan Marshall Margarida Garcia Kath Bloom And Blues Musician Robert Crotty. read less