The Hobo's Story (Live)

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

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Jeni tells of how, when she was a child, her Dad read Paddington Bear to her and sang hobo songs to her. This convinced her that all hobos were bears. So, he took her to a shelter in Boston to meet real life hobos. She wrote the song in her Dad's honor.

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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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