Review: Connie Converse

Subject: Review: Connie Converse
From: GUEST,Freddie Pinkgill
Date: 18 Oct 20 - 10:21 PM

My lord a quick perusal of the forums' search
suggests that Connnnnie Conversseee may be crim'nally underdiscussed

Her songs "talkin like you, bobbie's brother, n also roving woman"
are just downright marvelous

this hear's just to alert y'all
i am personally learning
some of these songs
i like them very much

Subject: RE: Review: Connie Converse
From: GUEST,matt milton
Date: 19 Oct 20 - 09:54 AM

I love Connie Converse.

She was a unique songwriter, clearly influenced by the folk tradition but with a modernist poet's detachment and cool.

I think of her as a cross between Peggy Seeger and Frank O'Hara. You couldn't make her up: her music sounds like something you'd expect to hear from the 60s or 70s counterculture but I think she stopped writing songs in 1961. All those songs were written in the 1950s. She was really was an anomaly. A feminist icon.

I sing her song 'We Lived Alone' and one or two folk singers sing her stuff.

If you haven't heard her before:
https://connieconverse.bandcamp.com/album/how-sad-how-lovely

Subject: RE: Review: Connie Converse
From: GUEST,matt milton
Date: 19 Oct 20 - 09:56 AM

And here is the Connie Converse wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Converse

Subject: RE: Review: Connie Converse
From: GUEST,matt milton
Date: 19 Oct 20 - 09:57 AM

...and here is Anna & Elizabeth's cover of Connie's song 'Father Neptune'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HpgfoRs-cc

Subject: RE: Review: Connie Converse
From: GUEST,matt milton
Date: 19 Oct 20 - 09:58 AM

Sorry, blue clicky link to Connie Converse's album:

connieconverse.bandcamp.com/album/how-sad-how-lovely