Perhaps the ultimate artist not meant for her time, Connie Converse’s only surviving recordings were lo-fi transcriptions from a lone 1955 session, songs unearthed (for most listeners) roughly three decades after her mysterious vanishing. A shy singer-songwriter, Converse crafted folk songs riddled with a surprising undercurrent of semi-repentant seediness and subtle sexuality. After a flirtation with mid-‘50s attention, Converse retreated into a life of quiet activism, her only musical outlet being a monthly tape exchange with her brother, until in 1974, suffering from severe depression, Converse drove away from her life, simply dissolving into the ether to be never seen again. In 2009, a first generally available LP of her music, the aptly titled HOW SAD, HOW LOVELY, was released.