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  • A Body Is A Delicate House, Limited Edition Handprinted CD with Deluxe Booklet
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Jeni's 2021 studio album in a Forestry Stewardship Council certified brown card envelope with a mock-polaroid cover photo. This edition of the CD comes with a forty page booklet which Jeni designed, cut, and bound in recycled silk ribbon. The CD is hand-printed by Jeni.

    She created poster-sized collages using family photographs, vintage envelopes, vintage books, wrapping paper, original handwritten lyrics, and pressed flowers in order to illustrate the lyrics of these twelve new original songs. Then she scanned the collages, had them printed by her trusted printer in Lancaster, England, and she cut and assembled them at home.

    The booklet includes all of the lyrics from A Body Is A Delicate House as well as Jeni's essay about the events which inspired her new songs. She's also included extra notes about five of the songs and full production credits.

    The booklets are made to order and can be purchased separately from the CD if you've bought a download of the music rather than a physical copy of the CD.

    Jeni signs and hand-numbers each booklet.

    APOLOGIES FOR THE INCREASE IN POSTAGE COSTS: Sadly, postage rates have risen astronomically in recent years – particularly for the USA, which is now classed by UK Royal Mail in a category of its own: it costs at least £5 more to send an parcel to the USA than to Canada or Mexico! You can save on postage by ordering more than one item at a time, as the base postage rate is determined by the item with the highest shipping cost. You’ll only be charged the incremental rate for any additional items. I wish I could weather the postage increase without passing the cost on to you, but I'm afraid my indy artist existence would be impossible if I did so. I hope you understand.

    Includes unlimited streaming of A Body Is A Delicate House – Limited Edition Handprinted via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.     ... more

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  • Deluxe Booklet for A Body Is A Delicate House with Digital Download of the CD
    Book/Magazine + Digital Album

    A forty page A6-sized booklet which Jeni has designed, cut, and bound in recycled silk ribbon.

    She created poster-sized collages using family photographs, vintage envelopes, vintage books, wrapping paper, original handwritten lyrics, and pressed flowers in order to illustrate the lyrics of these twelve new original songs. Then she scanned the collages, had them printed by her trusted printer in Lancaster, England, and she cut and assembled them at home.

    The booklet includes all of the lyrics from A Body Is A Delicate House as well as Jeni's essay about the events which inspired her new songs. She's also included extra notes about five of the songs and full production credits.

    The booklets are made to order and can be purchased separately from the CD if you've bought a download of the music rather than a physical copy of the CD.

    Jeni signs and hand-numbers each booklet.

    APOLOGIES FOR THE INCREASE IN POSTAGE COSTS: Sadly, postage rates have risen astronomically in recent years – particularly for the USA, which is now classed by UK Royal Mail in a category of its own: it costs at least £5 more to send an parcel to the USA than to Canada or Mexico! You can save on postage by ordering more than one item at a time, as the base postage rate is determined by the item with the highest shipping cost. You’ll only be charged the incremental rate for any additional items. I wish I could weather the postage increase without passing the cost on to you, but I'm afraid my indy artist existence would be impossible if I did so. I hope you understand.

    Includes unlimited streaming of A Body Is A Delicate House – Limited Edition Handprinted via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.     ... more

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  • Full Digital Discography

    26
    releases

    Get all 26 Jeni Hankins releases available on Bandcamp and save 20%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of String Unraveller Demo May 2021, The American Dream (Harlis and Freda), Voice Memo Demo, I'm Letting Go of You – Kitchen Single, The Wondarium: Songs For Kids, A Body is a Delicate House, I Fell Into the Fire, The Loneliest Snowman, I Fell Into The Fire – Limited Edition Handprinted, and 18 more. , and , .

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lyrics

Pretty Back Then

for the girl I was and the girls I knew

I was pretty back then, but you never told me.
When we’d sit in your car, did you even hold me?
I could have been a movie star
in a parade on a rag-top car.
I was pretty back then, but you never told me.

I was smart back then, but you never said so.
Just another teenage girl, easy come and easy go.
I won the science fair,
finished the test with time to spare.
I was smart back then, but you never said so

I had so much love –
love you couldn’t see.
I hope someone loves you now,
but I’m glad it ain’t me.
It ain’t me, it ain’t me.
No, it won’t be me.

I could fly back then, but you didn’t know it.
I had wings all that time, but I didn’t show it.
There’s someone who sees me now –
sees my wings even when I’m down
I could fly back then, but you didn’t know it.

I wrote you a letter. I’ll never send it.
No words I can say will ever mend it.
Are you in jail? Are you dead?
do you have a family now instead?
No matter how, you can’t defend it.

credits

from A Body Is A Delicate House – Limited Edition Handprinted, released September 1, 2021
Written by Jeni Hankins, Lulu Wall Music, BMI.

Jeni Hankins – Vocal, Rhythm Guitar, and Trombone
Alfred John Hickling – Harmony and all other instruments

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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.” ... more

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