Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Connie Converse


One by one, the years passed from the 1974 summer day when Connie Converse packed up her Volkswagen Bug, leaving behind letters to loved ones that said maybe they'd see her again or maybe they wouldn't.

And one by one, the odds grew against the chance that anyone outside those who knew her would ever hear the dozens of folk songs that friends and family always believed would make Converse famous.

Now, nearly 35 years after she gave up on her music and perhaps her life, Converse's music is being resurrected by an indie record label run by two New Yorkers who stumbled upon her recordings.

Read the rest of this San Fransisco Chronicle story HERE. Hear the music HERE.