Jenny Mae made only two full length records, released just two years apart in the hey-day of 90s indie-rock.

Jenny’s music found a small, devoted audience and her music was covered not only by many zines but also Rolling Stone, Spin, Interview, even Entertainment Weekly.

She played shows with Guided by Voices, Magnetic Fields, Neko Case, Chris Knox and more but to see her live one never knew what one would see, perhaps on a good night, a deeply moving set sung in her sweet midwestern voice or maybe a woman who could barely stand.

"Jenny lived life how an engine swallows gasoline, hot and quickly except her gasoline was alcohol which she used to quiet her undiagnosed schizoaffective disorder and by the early 2000s she went from living in Coral Gables to living on the streets of Columbus, Ohio in a matter of weeks

Her music was sweet, catchy and at times bawdy - some songs as short as Bob Pollard‘s (who championed her) and others lush electronic that was closer to My Bloody Valentine or OMD. She was a fan of the Beach Boys and Beatles growing up in rural Ohio and started writing songs in high school.

Eventually she started recording on a borrowed Tascam 4-track in the late '80s, songs as innocent as Daniel Johnston’s or the Marine Girls.

Some of these earliest recordings are gathered here on this compilation that stretches from 1989 through 2016, where her last recording, the devastating “Not Another Bad Year” was recorded months before her death in 2017.

It includes many of the songs she made in the years before she died, including the ode to her good friend, Jim Shepard as well as songs she created as she pined for Ohio while going off the rails in Miami. Side two contains some of the singles she recorded for various indie-labels that have not been available since the mid-90s and several unreleased songs from a never materialized third record." -Bela Koe-Krompecher, 2022