We Lived Alone: The Connie Converse Documentary

April 13, 2024 2:36 PM

A documentary (40m youtube video) from 2014 covers some of the life of the enigmatic singer/songwriter Connie Converse. Interviews with some of her closest relatives, and animator Gene Deitch, all of whom kept many of her letters and recordings. previously: 2016, 2009 (cw: depression, probable suicide)
posted by 2N2222 (4 comments total)

I am right now reading the biography of her, To Anyone Who Ever Asks. It's pretty good. You know what's excellent? Connie Converse's music. If you haven't heard it. She was only about 50 years ahead of her time. Do check it out
posted by nushustu at 2:48 PM on April 13 [2 favorites]

Were you just listening to Anne Litt on KCRW too? She just played Playboy of the Western World and dropped a few lines of this super intriguing story. It left me hungry to look up the documentary on Connie Converse but you seem to have saved me the search! Can't wait to watch.
posted by sigmagalator at 2:49 PM on April 13 [1 favorite]

nushustu: She was only about 50 years ahead of her time.

That was exactly my reaction too, the first time I heard Connie Converse. I thought for sure she was a contemporary, and not someone who’d vanished nearly fifty years ago.

I think one reason it’s easy to believe she’s still out there somewhere, is that she sounds so current.
posted by Kattullus at 3:38 PM on April 13

The podcast Criminal just did an episode on her!
posted by chesty_a_arthur at 7:40 PM on April 13