Kath Bloom + Linda Draper http://www.americansongwriter.com/2013/03/song-premiere-linda-draper-hollow/ Channeling the finger-plucked folk music of Joni Mitchell and Nick Drake, Linda Draper gets back to her acoustic roots with “Hollow,” the new single from Edgewise. It’s a haunting ballad, with dark lyrics that contrast Draper’s sweet, lilting voice. “I’ll blow away your sorrow; I am the promise of good fortune and all that is hollow,” she sings like a siren, luring some would-be lover to his grisly doom. http://pitchfork.com/artists/5083-kath-bloom/ In Kath Bloom’s 1982 ballad “The Breeze/My Baby Cries,” the cult singer-songwriter’s weary voice gnaws into the listener’s hide from the very start, as she sings, “I’d like to touch you, but I’ve forgotten how.” At the same time, avant-garde blues guitarist Loren Connors stretches the worn strings of his instrument around the devastating melody. It’s a stark reminder that the everyday can weigh a ton. On the tribute album Loving Takes Its Course, an assortment of high-profile Bloom fans — including Mark Kozelek, Josephine Foster and Devendra Banhart — cover her early-’80s work with Connors, as well as her solo return in the mid-’90s. For those who know the benefactors but not the beneficiary, the set places the covers on one disc and the originals on another, giving a new audience the opportunity to discover Bloom’s heartbreaking work firsthand.