I knew her in Ann Arbor. By then she had stopped performing but I heard her play a couple of times at my uncle's house. I now wish I'd paid closer attention, I was just a stupid teenager at the time.
replyFascinating! Did her music feel different from other musicians at the time? Listening to some of her songs now, it's hard not to feel like she was way ahead of her time. Though that could just be hindsight talking.
replyWhat year was this?
replyRoving Woman is my favourite song of hers:
replyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAfUXna0N-4
This cover is pretty spectacular:
It's the first song mentioned in the article, but oddly no link to a performance. There's links to two other of her songs. The cover is lovely, as is the rest of that artist's music.
replyGosh, "Talkin' Like You (Two Tall Mountains)" is heartbreaking:
Talkin' Like You is incredible
replyPitchfork review from last year:
replyhttps://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/connie-converse-how-sad...
Lots of stories like this. My favorite is Judee Sill - disappeared, died of an OD pretty much penniless. Music ahead of its time with layered recordings, rediscovered decades later...
replyMy favorite is, fortunately, a lot less depressing. Sinead Lohan, right on the cusp of making it big, touring with some of the biggest names in folk at the time. Realized she didn't like the music industry so she stopped and retired right then and there. I have no doubt she'd be a legendary folk name if she continued. Whatever It Takes is my favorite song by her.
replyI have her album “No Mermaid” and wondered what happened to her. It’s a great album.
replyCollie Ryan is mine. She did three albums in the 1970s and then basically disappeared. I became aware of her through the use of her (amazing) song "It's Gonna Rain" which was featured on the soundtrack of Computer Chess (2013), a very weird (but good) film that seems to be about a computer chess tournament in the 1980s but gets weirder.
replyhttps://www.spinmagazine.com/2013/07/collie-ryan-its-gonna-r...
Oh wow, Crickets is an incredible track. Never heard of her before.
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replyThe private equity company that scooped up her music rights, most likely.
replyAs far as I know, the rights are still owned by her family. The albums were issued by an independent label operated by one of the persons who tracked down her music. The recent reissue of "How Sad, How Lovely" is on Jack White's Third Man Records (also independent).
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