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Let Me Go By Lightning

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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Let Me Go By Lightning
for Greg Hankins (1956-2016)

When the lightning struck,
Charlie slept inside you.
The lightning rocked him,
but he never woke up.
The lightning jumped
‘cross the pan of potatoes.
You held it in your lap
and raised it with your son.

And the lightning walked
in the fields beside him.
It hoed the corn.
It drove the plow.
The lightning talked
to Charlie like a brother
and when he died
the lightning took him home.

And I am thirsty for electro static.
I am dialing God’s telephone.
When I fly on up to Heaven,
let me go by lightning.
Ride that lightning bolt.

When the lightning struck,
you were in mid-sentence
in your Red Sox cap
telling an old joke.
When the lightning jumped
into your spirit
it brought an urgent message.
God was calling you home.

When the lightning spoke,
it was meant to be, child.
It came for you
and it came for me.
Now that lightning bolt’s
working in my soul,
won’t let me go
’til it carries me home.

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from I Fell Into the Fire, released December 13, 2022
Jeni Hankins – Vocal and Rhythm Guitar
Alfred John Hickling – Harmony Vocal and Mandolin
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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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