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The Lost Singer-Songwriter: Sarah-Jane Morris on Connie Converse | Episode 32


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A decade before Dylan, there was Connie Converse – arguably the very first singer-songwriter with inner-city tales of loss and longing. But have you heard of her? Have you heard her music? And why isn’t her name sung from the rooftops?

Oswin and Carla are joined today by the singer Sarah-Jane Morris to help us understand the joy and sorrow of Connie’s short life, the pressures on women in the music industry then and now and how luck, time and place can conspire to sweep people’s stories away.

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