[HN Gopher] When Connie Converse, the 'female Bob Dylan,' lived ...
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When Connie Converse, the 'female Bob Dylan,' lived in NYC
Author : tintinnabula
Score : 65 points
Date : 2023-05-07 13:09 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
| 8f2ab37a-ed6c wrote:
| Some parallels with the rediscovery of Nick Drake a few years
| back. Wonder how many more of these gems are buried in the river
| of history.
| jjulius wrote:
| >Some parallels with the rediscovery of Nick Drake a few years
| back.
|
| How long ago are we talking here? To my mind, he's enjoyed a
| healthy dose of posthumous popularity for a few decades.
| rodgerd wrote:
| Phil Ochs isn't buried, but he's really not as well-known as he
| ought to be; the story about Dylan "throwing him out of his
| limo" for being too political for Bob's taste says a lot about
| Dylan.
| lioeters wrote:
| This link is in the article, but it sure makes for a perfect
| soundtrack while reading.
|
| https://connieconverse.bandcamp.com/album/how-sad-how-lovely
| rcme wrote:
| If you buy the album, who are you supporting, exactly?
| pessimizer wrote:
| I hope the above isn't considered a rude question, but
| treated as a real question. Who owns these recordings, and
| how did they get ownership? If I had to guess, I'd say the
| copyright started with whoever had the belongings (and tapes)
| she left behind, likely a family member, and they probably
| went into partnership with whoever shopped the tapes (and
| story) around to record companies.
|
| One of my favorite CDs; I wish people still wrote music like
| that.
| escapedmoose wrote:
| "How Sad How Lovely" is such a beautiful album. I hum its songs
| to myself regularly. So glad her work has been preserved at least
| to some extent.
| dr_monster wrote:
| Been listening to these songs for quite a while now - amazing
| songwriting. A mysterious, tragic tale, too.
|
| On Spotify there is an album called "Connie's Piano Songs" that
| purport to be through-composed (as in, pen to paper notated
| music) art songs. I've unsuccessfully tried to find more info
| about them and there don't seem to be any scores are available.
| I'd be interested if anyone has any more information about them
| or has the scores. Part of me wonders if they are actually songs
| _about_ Connnie Converse and not composed by her...
| cenazoic wrote:
| Fishman discusses this in his recently released book (which is
| highly recommended, although it left me a bit depressed.)
|
| Basically, he got the music from her brother, and organized
| some singers and recorded it. There are no known recordings of
| Converse herself performing them.
|
| tldr; Connie Converse wrote the music/lyrics, but "Connie's
| Piano Songs" are performed by other artists.
| dr_monster wrote:
| Thanks, I see that there is more info in this article too. I
| mistakenly thought this post was an older article that I had
| already read about her.
| zabzonk wrote:
| another woman that seems almost forgotten:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Henske
| pessimizer wrote:
| Another lost (not missing, just unnoticed) artist whose
| discovery happened about the same time as Converse is
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibylle_Baier
| wslh wrote:
| https://archive.is/3iUYP
| mellosouls wrote:
| A non paywall alternative:
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| https://www.theawl.com/2010/08/the-story-of-connie-converse/
| readthenotes1 wrote:
| This one is much better than the NYT article. Also, it embeds
| some of her songs to listen to while reading.
| brandall10 wrote:
| It's good to have more insight, but the archive.is link at the
| top comment is the non-paywall version of the main article.
| zoklet-enjoyer wrote:
| This article has more information, like how she got on TV,
| while the first link says they don't know.
| brandall10 wrote:
| Understood ("more insight"), I mentioned due to the paywall
| comment. It was meant to be purely informative, not
| comparing content of the articles.
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