Billy making a lovely guitar sound

Billy in OGM studios with Charlie Chadwick & Laurie McClain! Thanks to sweet Wendysue for making us part of her Wish day!

Pi Day in Nashville

We celebrated Pi Day at Oz Arts in Nashville. Origami Spheres, Pi inspired art, a panel discussion with one of my performers of all time, Laurie Anderson, & the debut of a symphony by Roy Wooten. All in all a very swell time!

Tiny Dancer, me back in the 80's

From tap dance to flatfoot dance. I still have one of those long gloves in my bureau drawer :) Happy Day, everyone!

Jeni Headquarters

Here’s where a lot of Jeni & Billy songwriting, booking, and correspondence happens. This is Jeni Headquarters. Those little notebooks are one of my favorite things in life. And those particular ones are full of original Jeni & Billy song lyrics as well as things like grocery lists, doodles, and lists of books I want to read. That Fuller brush man letter open was a gift from my Mom. The little blue stapler came from when I lived in Paris for a year and couldn’t make do without office/school supplies. Billy plays guitar and holds back the scrap paper. That’s my working Corona typewriter. Look out Tom Hanks.

Headed up Chicago-way! Share the Jeni & Billy LOVE!

Hey! Did you know that we are headed out on a mini-tour next week to Chicago, Detroit, and Bloomington (IN). Please spread the word to your friends and family for ultimate Jeni & Billy musical joy and happiness!

Two Way Street Coffee House on Friday, March 20.

Folkstage on Saturday, March 21.

Steve Deasy​ is hosting us for a Fabulous Fashionable Ferndale house concert in Detroit for us on Friday, March 27.

Then the Michael Kelsey​ Birthday Bash for WFHB Radio, Bloomington, is on Sunday, March 29.

Details: www.jeniandbilly.com/tour/

The right to read

Honoring the women who have fought for the rights of all people,  regardless of gender and class, to read. Honoring women, including my own mother, who have taught children to read. And honoring Mawmaw Margie who said, "Lord, girl, the only kind of person worth being is one of a kind." 

Crazy #6 on UNKOVR everyone! THANK YOU!

GUESS WHAT??? We are #6 on UNKOVR. YES! YOU DID IT! THANK YOU!

Not bad for an obscure folk duo and a bunch of very devoted fans.

Here’s a wish for you: I wish you all could go with us to Mawmaw’s right now. We would have homemade biscuits with butter and honey and then go over to the church and have a big ole sing! And then we’d get in our cars and go down Chicken Ridge together across the Dismal River into Jewell Valley where we would have our pictures made at the old scale house. Then we’d go over to Richlands and see my Aunt Princess for some homemade potato bread and dinner. And at night we’d go back up on Smith Ridge where there are no lights on the road and watch the stars and see the space station zoom overhead. And in the morning, we’d all walk down to our family cabin and read from the newspapers on the wall to each other. Then we’d sing as we walked on home.

Let’s have a huge hug when we see each other next time. OK? Or, if you’re not a hugger, let’s do a high five. OK?

You are THE BEST. LOVE and HAPPINESS all day again.

If you missed all of the excitement because you were on an internet break, just mosey on down to the previous posts or follow this link to VOTE for us (under our photo to the left, those little square boxes). http://unkovr.com/artist/jeni-billy/