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Warm Morning Stove

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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Song about two boys growing up in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia.

lyrics

For Dad & Uncle Tom.

My brother and I,
we slept in the basement,
with the warm morning stove
and ten quilts on the bed.
Mawmaw, she slept
in the room up above us,
and the grate in the floor
told her all that we said.

We dreamed of cowboys
and red fire engines
and of building a still
in the woods out back,
‘cause what was the use
of all that book learning
‘cept to make corn liquor
and play quarterback.

My brother, I wish you warm mornings,
may you walk in peace all the days of your life.
At the very least, I wish you warm mornings.
Goodnight, my brother. It’s me, goodnight.

My brother, he broke
my nose one summer
playing like kids do.
Mawmaw thought I was dead.
I laid on the floor
of the cool dark basement
with the warm morning stove
upside down in my head.

My brother, he stayed
on our couch for a while
’til he saved for his rent,
when his job came through.
Our kids sat with him
in fuzzy pajamas
eating Lucky Charms
and watching cartoons.

My brother and I,
we grew up different
even though,
we grew up the same.
Ain’t that the way
with brothers or sisters?
Sometimes all you share
is part of your name.

The warm morning stove
rusts into the mountain,
thrown over the hill
with our corn liquor still.
My brother and I,
sometimes we go fishing,
and Mawmaw, she listens
from Calvary hill.

© 2015 - Jeni Hankins & Billy Kemp.

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from Heart of the Mountain, track released May 1, 2016
Jeni Hankins, vocals.
Billy Kemp, vocals, guitar, percussion, electric guitar, electric bass, banjo, organ.

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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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