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Cousin Joe

from I Fell Into the Fire by Jeni Hankins

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    This album includes songs which Jeni Hankins and Alfred John Hickling wrote mainly via correspondence between March 2020 and August 2021 when collaboration in person was impossible due to coronavirus lockdowns in Britain. Jeni lives in Carnforth, Lancashire, and Crystal Palace in Southeast London. Alfred lives in York. They've been writing songs together since 2015 and collaborating on performances since their bands met in 2010.

    Jeni and Alfred recorded most of these songs in the course of 72 hours around a single microphone in Jeni's studio in Carnforth. A few of them were recorded by correspondence where they sent each other ideas and then subsequently recorded their musical responses over each other's initial musical idea. The final song on the album is a special recording from their February 2021 appearance at Bromborough Folk Club on The Wirral. This was their last live show before lockdown and they weren't to perform again for 540 days.

    This album also includes Jeni and Alfred's single mic, single take recording of songs from the Jeni & Billy catalog including "Miner's Reward,"" Tazewell Beauty Queen," and "Reckoning Day."

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Cousin Joe
for Joseph Fisher Casey, d. 30 July 2021

You always wondered how I could write
all the stories of our lives –
how the words flowed from my pen
and the notes came following them.

I had the words, you had the heart.
You always let me be the star.
Your cut-off jeans and crazy laugh,
I wish we could all go back.

I wrote your name into this song
just as a way of saying so long.

Did you play drums or guitar?
I can still see your big brown car.
You’d drive us kids to the Dairy Queen.
You were so much younger than you
seemed to me.

I wrote your name into this song
just as a way of saying so long.
And when I look up to the sky,
it’s my way of saying goodbye.

We’d ride the waves into the surf.
You picked me up when I got hurt.
Coke bottle glasses and a wild-eyed stare,
we kids would follow you anywhere.
Goodnight, goodnight, our Cousin Joe.
Safe journey to wherever we all go.

Tell them all I say hello, Cousin Joe.

credits

from I Fell Into the Fire, released December 13, 2022
Written by Jeni Hankins, Lulu Wall Music, BMI, and Alfred John Hickling.

Jeni Hankins – Vocals
Alfred John Hickling – Harmony Vocals and Guitar, piano,

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Jeni Hankins London, UK

Jeni Hankins grew up in the coalfields of Appalachian in Southwest Virginia among a family of miners, moonshiners, and journalists. Her writing pulls the grit, gumption, and keen sense of observation out of that heritage like drawing water from her grandmother’s well.

In every song, Jeni’s “true sense of place shines through – old as the hills, but brand new at the same time.”
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