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    This album includes songs which Jeni Hankins and Alfred John Hickling mainly wrote 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.

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lyrics

Milk and Butter

A jug of milk across your horse
will churn butter while you’re riding.
If the lord wants you, he’ll get you of course.
You’d be a fool for hiding.

Milk today, tomorrow butter.
Jonah don’t know my mind.
Us girls along the Dismal River
speak just as we find.

Momma needs that dollar honey.
If the mine will pay, no telling.
The Lord provides, this I know
if butter and milk ain’t selling.

A lovin’ spark tucked in your breast
will burn you up come morning.
Your old heart will just feel worse
’til my kissin’ sends you soarin’.

I’ve got sweethearts up and down this mountain
and I’ve been know to tarry.
On your lovin’, I’ll be countin’.
You’re the only one I’ll marry.

Sold that bloodroot down in town
to buy my wedding shoes –
high top boots for riding Nellie
and dancin’ all night with you.

credits

from I Fell Into The Fire – Limited Edition Handprinted, released October 15, 2021
Jeni Hankins – Vocals and Guitar
Alfred John Hickling – Harmony Vocals and Banjo

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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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