Kat Goldman

The Collection

The Great Disappearing Act

This was my first professional album I recorded in 2002. We took what were originally my folk songs and put a pop spin on them. It’s also the album in which my ballad, “Annabel,” made its first appearance.

  1. The Great Disappearing Act
  2. Everyone’s Getting Married
  3. Soft Place to Land On
  4. Balloon
  5. The Runaway
  6. Albion Moonlight
  7. La La La Paradise
  8. The Underground
  9. Annabel

Sing Your Song

Two years after recovering from a serious accident, I made “Sing Your Song.” It was my “coming-back-to-life” album which featured such songs as, “Baby, You Gonna Fall in Love,” and, “Damn Town.” Its final song, “Weight of the World,” was later recorded by American folk star Dar Williams.

  1. Sing Your Song
  2. Baby, You Gonna Fall in Love
  3. Music Teacher
  4. Driving All Night
  5. The Lone Plane
  6. I Know Better
  7. Stay The Course
  8. Red Canoe
  9. Angel Child
  10. Damn Town
  11. Weight of the World

Gypsy Girl

When I moved to Boston in 2009, songs started coming to me almost instantly. Living in Cambridge and attending university gave me such a rich palette for songwriting. I had left my home in Canada to search for a new place to put down roots.

  1. Just A Walk Tonight
  2. Moving Pictures
  3. World Away
  4. Make It Easy on Me
  5. The Road
  6. Letter From Paris
  7. Harvard Boys
  8. Summersong
  9. The Dream
  10. Gypsy Girl
  11. Traveling Band

The Workingman’s Blues

 This album, produced by Bill Bell in Toronto, is my love letter to a true Workingman in Boston (whom I dated for three years.) The songs tell a story in the form of a rock musical. I’ve always thought of this as my proudest work. Stevie Connor (www.soundcafe.com) called it, “a masterpiece.”

  1. Take It Down the Line
  2. Release Me
  3. The Courthouse
  4. Put Your Toolbox Down
  5. The Workingman’s Blues
  6. South Shore Man
  7. Ghosts in The Apartment
  8. Baby, I Understand
  9. It’s Ovaaah
  10. The One to Dream
  11. Right
  12. Don’t Know Where I’m Bound

Kat’s Book: “Off the Charts: What I Learned from My Almost Fabulous Life in Music.”

(Sutherland House Books)

So you want to make it as a singer-songwriter? Kat Goldman has been there, almost to the very top, and now she’s back with sage advice and hilarious behind-the-scenes stories from a lifetime of toil in the dive bars and legendary venues of the contemporary music scene.

Learn what it’s like to meet your first fan, date a rock star (never again!), perform in a grocery store, and rebuild your career after getting hit by a car in a bagel shop. Feel the sting of rejection and rampant sexism, and the thrill of writing a hit song and performing with your idols.

Off the Charts is a whimsical, uproarious tour through a fickle business that never seems to repay what performers put into it, and one woman’s highly intimate account of how she made the best of almost making it. Featuring a sparkling set of original illustrations by the award-winning Nina Berkson.