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Thread #172585   Message #4198883
Posted By: Thomas Stern
10-Mar-24 - 09:50 PM
Thread Name: Connie Converse, singer-songwriter mystery
Subject: RE: Connie Converse, singer-songwriter mystery
Elizabeth Eaton Converse (1924 - disappeared 1974)
2 years at Mount Holyoke College, then to New York City.

music composed and recorded in the 1950's compared to
Dylan, Carter Family, Robert Johnson.

Left NY in 1960 to Ann Arbor.
 
a documentary, includes interviews with Phil & Jean Converse (brother and sister-in-law), Gene Deitch (famous illustrator - covers of
Record Changer and cartoons, late 40's, animator-Tom & Jerry), and
Tim Converse (nephew).
We Lived Alone: The Connie Converse Documentary

Recordings:
Connie Converse - How Sad, How Lovely

Book:
To Anyone Who Ever Asks-THE LIFE, MUSIC, AND MYSTERY OF ONNIE CONVERSE
By Howard Fishman
DUTTON, 2023.

GUARDIAN review: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/11/to-anyone-who-ever-asks-by-howard-fishman-review-vanishing-act

THE NEW YORKER November 21, 2016
Connie Converse’s Time Has Come
By Howard Fishman
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/connie-converses-time-has-come

New York Times - Published Aug. 11, 2022 Updated Aug. 17, 2022
The Art of Disappearance
Some might hear the music of Connie Converse, who drove off without a trace in 1974, as a haunting record of depression. But what about the liberation?
By Hanif Abdurraqib
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/magazine/connie-converse-disappearance.html


ANYONE KNOW HER ????
Thoughts on her music ????

Thanks, Thomas.