Connie Converse was an outsider when she made her music in the 50s. Her Greenwich Village neighbors owned Harry Smith's 1952 anthology of American folk music. "I hear what we now think of, or describe, some people describe as singer-songwriter music," he says.
The life of musician Connie Converse easily reduces down to one of those Hemingway length sad stories: Before Dylan there was Connie Converse and then she disappeared.
In his new book “To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse” Howard Fishman gives us the complete tale. We meet up with Howard and learn why this incredible musician just couldn’t catch a break in 1950s New York City, and why he is devoted to her life and art.
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