Jeni &Billy

Jeni & Billy are a sweetheart duo who perform new old songs and old old songs rooted in Appalachian culture Fine harmonies accompanied on guitar, banjo, mandolin, and harmonica. Captivating stories and poetry from Southwest Virginia mine family lives - blue-ribbon flatfoot dance too.

Jeni & Billy bring not only heart and soul, but an authenticity all too rare in today's folk world. Hearing them sing their real lyrics of the coal life at Seedtime on the Cumberland in the heart of the coalfields was incredibly moving.

Art Menius
Director of Appalshop
Artistic Director of Seedtime on the Cumberland

Discovery of the month (or maybe the year) is Jeni & Billy, whose release Jewell Ridge Coal arrived a few days ago. I finally got it in the player yesterday, and have been totally captivated by it. The songs are great and Jeni’s voice makes the hairs stand up on my neck — a pure mountain voice that is beautiful.

Mike Kelsey
WFHB Community Radio
Bloomington, IN

Jeni & Billy provide acoustic music lovingly dressed with graceful phrasing and old-time charm. It’s soothing, relaxing, heartfelt and richly steeped in the traditions of old-time country and bluegrass. Better yet, it provides many great stories of a “Miner’s Reward” and a “Tazewell Beauty Queen.”

Joe Tennis
Bristol Herald Courier

They sound so natural together, it feels calming and clear. It's as if you were there sitting on a back porch in the old-timey South and they were right there with you and just stumbled upon some instruments.