Check out our #SummerSolsticePlaylist #LithaPlaylist to serve as the soundtrack for you #SummerSolstice #Litha needs!
Featured artists:
#MermaidChunky (featured image)
#MarianneFaithfull
#ConnieConverse
#ELSZ
#PatrickWolf
#StrawberrySwitchblade
#Jasmyn
#LaLuz
#Anohni
#Hex
and many, many more!
link:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ssC7GAiqqlIhoB9JoW7BW?si=1o1KbWb6SKm1wHEPoqLx2w
Zag gister Good One. Goeie film, indrukwekkende hoofdrolspeelster. Het liedje bij de aftiteling kreeg ik niet meer uit m'n hoofd. https://connieconverse.bandcamp.com/track/talkin-like-you-two-tall-mountains-2 #ConnieConverse #GoodOne
Die drei Leben der Connie Converse
Die Frau, die den Folk erfand und verschwand – Von Monika Kursawe
Was für eine Stimme! Was für abgefeimte Melodiebögen! Und erst die Texte: böse, durchtrieben, feministisch, witzig und poetisch. Als Connie Converse in den frühen 50er-Jahren nach NYC kam, brachte sie Songs mit, die den Folk hätten verändern können. Sie spielte sie auf „listening parties“ vor ergriffenem Publikum – trat sogar im Fernsehen auf – einen Plattenvertrag bekam sie jedoch nie.
Zum Glück gab es Menschen, die diese Song auf Tonbandgeräte aufnahmen … Und dann verschwand Connie einfach und ward nie mehr gesehen … Monika Kursawe auf den Spuren einer großen Musikerin und schwierigen Existenz.
https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/feature/die-drei-leben-der-connie-converse/swr-kultur/13896011/
#ConnieConverse #DLFKultur #Feature #Folk #MonikaKursawe #Musikerin #SWRKultur
Nat Johnson & The Figureheads – I’m Across, I’m Ashore (2012, UK)
[This guest post was written by @satsuma about number 356 on The List. The album was also submitted by satsuma.]
Nat Johnson moved to Sheffield to study at the University in 2002 and quickly became a leading light of the local music scene, supporting festivals, organising gigs and contributing to magazines. She formed the band Monkey Swallows the Universe with fellow student Kevin Gori and others, and produced two albums of critically acclaimed folk tinged pop before putting that project on hold in 2008 and working on solo material, before re-uniting with Gori in 2009 for the band Nat Johnson and the Figureheads.
This was their second album, crowdfunded and produced in 2012 with a launch party at Sheffield City Hall. The music still has a folk feel, but with a wider range of instruments (including a musical sawblade) and a rockier edge in places, but the heart is still Nat’s gorgeous, pure voice with lyrics ranging from the wistful to the surreal. If anyone is wondering, a pie bird is a little china figurine that is baked in the crust of a pie and lets out the steam as it cooks, playing a merry tune and keeping the pastry crisp.
As well as this album, Johnson has worked with film maker Andrea Kannes on a documentary called We Lived Alone about the enigmatic folk musician Connie Converse who struggled for recognition on the New York folk scene of the 1960’s before going missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. As part of the project Johnson recorded several songs dedicated to Connie Converse as well as covers of her music, feeling an empathy for a fellow musician.
After one final farewell gig, Johnson moved to Whitley Bay in the North East of England to be closer to her family, but she will always have a link with the Steel City.
#ConnieConverse #folk #folkPop #MonkeySwallowsTheUniverse #music #musicDiscovery #NatJohnson #NatJohnsonAndTheFigureheads #sheffield
The fascinating people Cerys Matthews introduces us to on her show, such as singer-songwriter and musician, Connie Converse.
She would have fitted in very nicely with us here on Mastodon, but sadly she was born deep within the 20th Century 😞
#JakubMajchrzak (ex #TheKurws ) and #LukaszPlata (#AtolAtolAtol) plays #ConnieConverse .
Cannot stop listening to this cover of Connie Converse's Honeybee by Reina del Cid...
#ConnieConverse – How Sad, How Lovely #LauDeretteRecordings 2009........thanks @satsuma http://connieconverse.bandcamp.com/album/how-sad-how-lovely
Lá breithe sona do Connie Converse. Níor chuala mé fúithi roimhe seo - scéal suimiúil atá ann
I'm listening to folk music today and my two favorite singers from today's random sampling are Connie Converse and Tia Blake.
Just really nice stuff.
Fascinating episode of Criminal podcast about folk artist Connie Converse who vanished in 1974
#folkmusic #connieconverse #music
https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-259-if-im-long-unheard-from
New #podcast! #HowardFishman joins the show to talk about his new #book, TO ANYONE WHO EVER ASKS: The Life, Music & Mystery of Connie Converse. It's a fun talk about an AMAZING book, so give it a listen! (& go read the book): https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-548-howard-fishman
Thought brought on by the biography of Connie Converse I’m now reading, which is well written, exhaustively researched, and broad in scope (making digressions into discussion of music history and fleshing out cultural context). But there’s just too much of it—especially about a subject about whom little is truly known. #ConnieConverse
Connie Converse spielt in den 50ern Gitarre und schreibt berührende Songs, zehn Jahre vor Bob Dylan. Dann verschwindet sie spurlos. Damals hält man ihre Musik für nicht vermarktbar, heute inspirieren ihre wieder aufgetauchten Songs andere Künstler*innen. Wir stellen die musikalische Pionierin im Popfilter vor.
#ConnieConverse #DerSongDesTages #Musikpodcast #Popfilter #RovingWoman #SingerSongwriter #SongDesTages #Songwriter #PopfilterDerSongDesTages
"When Connie Converse, the ‘Female Bob Dylan,’ Lived in N.Y.C."
#ConnieConverse #BobDylan #NYC
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/06/nyregion/connie-converse-nyc.html
Wow I had never heard of her before. Thanks, @jasonisaacdrums, for turning me on to #ConnieConverse!
Connie Converse: “How Sad, How Lovely”
A biography of Connie Converse is being published next month! This will probably be the most complete look we'll ever get at the obscure folk singer who disappeared in 1974.
https://newrepublic.com/article/171925/lost-music-connie-converse-howard-fishman-review
This is fascinating. I am particularly taken with this paragraph:
"Beginning in the 1920s...record companies began to categorize music by genre, a trend that only intensified over the ensuing decades. The result was a domestication of the unruly common language that was American music, and homegrown misfits like Converse were left to rot in the wilderness."
How might #American #music be different today if it hadn't been domesticated and #ConnieConverse had survived?
