Mawmaw's Story (Live)

from Live At McCabe's Guitar Shop by Jeni & Billy

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Story spoken by Jeni Hankins: This story honors Jeni's great-grandmother, Narcie Smith, who lost her husband to death in the mines of Southwest Virginia. Many of her daughters also married miners, so that in a sense the women were married to the mines.

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from Live At McCabe's Guitar Shop, track released May 1, 2015
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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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