Connie Converse
Find Connie’s music at connieconverse.com
She was arguably the very first singer-songwriter with inner-city tales of loneliness, loss, love and longing. She was at the heart of the Greenwich Village scene a decade before Dylan, a beatnik before Kerouac and a political activist and thinker for our age.
But have you heard of her? Have you even heard her music? And why isn’t her name sung from the rooftops?
Oswin and Carla are joined today by the singer Sarah-Jane Morris of Don’t Leave Me This Way fame to help us understand the joy and sorrow of Connie Converse’s short life, the pressures on women in the music industry then and now and how luck, time and place can conspire to sweep people’s stories away.