Acoustic guitar and banjo. This one has been kicking around for a few months, I finally decided to record it.

Lyrics:
It has been a long time
It has been a long time
I'm prepared to wait longer still in this state of decline
It is just a feeling
It is just a feeling
I expect it will take over my life given room to grow

Something in the middle
Just somewhere inbetween
Threatens a departure
We don't know what it means
It just don't seem likely to me

You're going it alone
You're going it alone
The battles you fight with all of your might are nothing you have sown
I am right there with you
I'll be right there with you
Given change I will be guiding your hands, hoping you will know

Something in the middle
Just somewhere inbetween
Prevents a real connection between you and me
I'm just trying to find the key

Discovering the answer
Uncovering the answer
Cannot be the goal for which I strive and never arrive

The Middle (demo)

Les Deux Escargots
An original setting of “Chanson des escargots qui vont à l’enterrement” by Jacques Prévert

This is one of Connie’s several experiments in homebrew “multi-track” recording. Each instrument was recorded, then played back over the hi-fi while Connie accompanied the playback on another instrument. From the sound of it, the vocal was the last element to be recorded. The result is a one-woman living room orchestra, with the oldest layers sounding most distant, as they’ve been played back and re-recorded the most.

Connie created musical settings from the texts of other writers (Whitman, Cummings) in a handful of extant recordings and scores, but “Les Deux Escargots” is unique among them in that she’s singing in another language. According to her alumni card from Mt. Holyoke College, Connie indicates French as her major, and indeed her pronunciation here is above average for an American who, as far as we know, never travelled to continental Europe.

Connie would later send a copy this tape to her brother Phil, accompanied by the following caption:

“This is a dub taken from an experimental recording, included here for laughs. Instrumentation: two drinking glasses, two pencils, empty Kleenex box, alto recorder, guitar. I couldn’t really concentrate on the singing part...”

Connie Converse - Les Deux Escargots

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Lots of sliding around. Read by the incredible ETHEL.

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pet coke

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Better to do lots of different things than actually do them well.  Bass player for Leap the Dips but never judge that band by the sounds heard on this page.

The Middle (demo)

Scott Marks