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Old Aunt Lou

from Heart of the Mountain by Jeni & Billy

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    Lauded roots singer and Jean Ritchie scholar, Susie Glaze, writes in her review of "Heart of the Mountain" for Folkworks, "During and after a good hearing of this great new CD project, you’ll feel like you’ve spent a fine long visit in the mountains with this family, remembering the generations, and that they’re all new friends of yours."

    Comes in a eco-friendly paper envelope with artwork by Jeni Hankins and her father, Greg Hankins. Includes CD with 27 tracks, fully illustrated lyric booklet, and a newspaper including the spoken word selections from the CD as well as a recipe for Aunt Erma's Gingerbread, poems, and essays.

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Jeni and her father, Greg Hankins, wrote this song in honor of their Aunt Lou who was a moonshiner in the Appalachian Mountains.

lyrics

Old Aunt Lou wore brogan shoes.
One was brown and the other was blue.
Danced all night ’til the sun peeked through.
She's comin’ down the mountain right after you.

Comin’ down, a-runnin’ down,
comin' down, a-runnin’ down,
comin’ down the mountain in her brogan shoes.
Comin’ down, a-runnin’ down,
comin' down, a-runnin’ down,
comin' down the mountain right after you.

Old Aunt Lou had a big tow sack.
Moonshine jars rattled in the back.
Dollar for a half-pint; two for two.
She's comin’ down the mountain right after you.

Old Aunt Lou made biscuits fat.
Once at her table you’d always come back.
Beans and taters and cornbread, too.
She's comin’ down the mountain right after you.

Old Aunt Lou had seven babes.
Ninety-nine pounds was all she weighed.
She was tougher than me or you.
She's comin’ down the mountain right after you.

Old Aunt Lou wore brogan shoes.
One was brown and the other was blue.
Danced all night ’til the sun peeked through.
She's comin’ down the mountain right after you.

© 2015 - Jeni Hankins & Greg Hankins.

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from Heart of the Mountain, track released May 1, 2016
Jeni Hankins, vocals.
Billy Kemp, vocals, guitar, harmonica, melodica, 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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