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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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Your Yellow Bike

for Greg Hankins on 24 July 2020

Do you swim amongst the eels
all their mysteries revealed –
their new initiate
in the deep Sargasso Sea?
Keeping counsel in the weeds,
Atlantis down the street.
A well-deserved rest
with the fish that you loved best.

Are you with your old friend Dave?
With Jesus breaking bread?
Picking John the Baptist’s mind
‘bout the tablets left behind?
All religions now refined
into a greater truth.
The joy of the now –
the eternal kissing booth.

If I had your yellow bike,
I’d ride it everywhere
singing Bob Dylan songs.
We wouldn’t care.
We’d be loud and we’d be free.
You on a trip with me.
You’re on this trip with me
just like you said you’d be.
Just like you said you’d be.

Are you out among the stars
where Mawmaw knows you are
looking down with a grin,
camera-shy again.
I have a picture of you
in the gap in my front tooth.
You’re the fox who came to tea –
the busy bumble bee.

You know you’re everywhere –
a pilgrim on the move,
a dragonfly’s wing,
grit in my daily groove,
the spine of my book,
the squint in my eye.
You shed your skin,
but you never said goodbye.


Those old rags and bones
were a temporary thing.
You wear a mantle of stardust
in a house beneath the sea.
There’ll be loaves,
there’ll be fishes,
the answer in your hands.
You’ll tell it all to me
when I reach the promised land.







Let’s play an old familiar song
with a well-worn melody
about a famous meeting
in Heaven’s Jubilee.
You’ll play your old banjo,
I’ll play your old guitar.
We’ll sing it all together,
so we know just where we are.

I saw you in the moon –
overalls and baseball cap
with a rooster at your heels,
a parade of dogs and cats.
You were spreading the good news,
you were gathering the peas,
you were growing this new tune
just to send it out to me.

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, 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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