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Connie Converse - How Sad, How Lovely (2015)

Connie Converse - How Sad, How Lovely (2015)

BAND/ARTIST: Connie Converse

  • Title: How Sad, How Lovely
  • Year Of Release: 2015
  • Label: Lau derette Recordings
  • Genre: Folk, World, & Country
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 40:50 min
  • Total Size: 130 MB
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Connie Converse was the quintessential musical enigma an artists before her time, forgotten, and disappeared without a trace over 35 years ago. If you stripped away the sharp literary mind, the precision of the songcraft, the bare honesty of her humble recordings, you would still be left with an unanswerable question: Where did she go? Why did she pack her belongings into a car, write goodbye letters to her friends and family, and vanish? Around 1949, Elizabeth Connie Converse dropped out of Mt. Holyoke College and moved to New York City to make her way as a musician. Over the course of the next decade, she wrote and recorded a body of truly unique, plaintive, and haunting work. Some songs she recorded herself in her Greenwich Village apartment, others were recorded by friends enamored of her music, but almost none ever reached an audience wider than, as she once put it, dozens of people all over the world. By the early 1960's, despondent over the limited commercial success of her music, she decided to leave New York for Ann Arbor where, in 1974, Connie wrote a series of goodbye letters to friends and family, packed up her Volkswagen and disappeared. She has not been heard from since. At first listen, Connie's music seems to keep close company with the female folk artists who were her contemporaries. The knack for plaintive storytelling shares much with Peggy Seeger and Susan Reed. Reed knew Connie s music well, and performed a set of her songs in 1961 at the Kaufmann Concert Hall in New York. But Connie's music stands out from that of the American folk revival of the 1950's. Her fluid and disarmingly intelligent poetry reflects an urban perspective, that of a new New Yorker becoming disenchanted by the bucolic tropes of folk music. She is at once a maverick and a romantic, intellectual and spiritual, a staunch independent and a tender, pining lover.

Tracks:
01. Connie Converse - Talkin' Like You (Two Tall Mountains) (2:30)
02. Connie Converse - Johnny's Brother (2:47)
03. Connie Converse - Roving Woman (2:41)
04. Connie Converse - Down This Road (1:45)
05. Connie Converse - The Clover Saloon (2:13)
06. Connie Converse - John Brady (1:47)
07. Connie Converse - We Lived Alone (1:16)
08. Connie Converse - Playboy Of The Western World (4:02)
09. Connie Converse - Unknown (A Little Louder, Love) (0:35)
10. Connie Converse - One By One (2:06)
11. Connie Converse - Father Neptune (2:07)
12. Connie Converse - Man In The Sky (4:04)
13. Connie Converse - Empty Pocket Waltz (2:00)
14. Connie Converse - Honeybee (1:34)
15. Connie Converse - There Is A Vine (1:36)
16. Connie Converse - How Sad, How Lovely (2:39)
17. Connie Converse - Trouble (1:24)
18. Connie Converse - I Have Considered The Lillies (Bonus Track) (3:46)

World | Folk | FLAC / APE

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