Roots Reggae for Reading and Rest | THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOW — Full Album

Eight things that happened to one woman, ordered by how many people know about them. Track one is known by exactly one person, which is her. Track eight is known by everybody, and she can tell it at a funeral and get a laugh. The count runs one, two, three, five, eleven, thirty-one, the district, everybody — and every chorus says the number out loud. 00:00:00 - Nobody But Me 00:03:14 - The Two of Us 00:06:44 - Three Women and a Reason 00:10:36 - Everybody in the House 00:14:39 - Eleven at the Graveside 00:18:17 - The Whole Choir 00:22:29 - The District Version 00:26:17 - And Now It Is Weather Album notes: the argument is that the headcount is what decides whether a thing is still a wound or has become a story. At one, you are carrying it and checking it is still there. At two you can put it down in the middle of a table, go to the shop, come back, and somebody else was watching it for you — that is the entire mechanism, and it costs one other person. Three is the last number that holds tight. Eleven people cannot hold a thing without shaping it, and the handle they put on it is never the true part. Thirty gives it a beginning and an end, which makes it a story, and a story belongs to whoever is telling it. By the time the district has it, it is about a woman with her name who she has never met. And the record ends on the thing she was most ashamed of in her life — thrown out of a shop over a tin of milk at seventeen, in front of the whole Saturday queue — which everybody now knows, which she tells herself at tables on purpose, and which does not weigh one ounce. That is not what anybody tells you about shame. The heaviest thing on the record is the one at the top that only she knows, and she explains in the last verse exactly why she cannot hand that one to anybody, and it is not a comfortable answer. One female lead voice, alone, on all eight tracks — no harmony, no answering voice, no crowd. The widening is done entirely by instruments, one more added at each step, because she is the constant and only the number of people around the fact changes. Bandoneon carries the melody: bellows-driven, with an audible intake before every phrase, like somebody deciding whether to say a thing. One drop, offbeat guitar chop, fat analog bass and organ, 1970s Kingston analog production. Tempos rise 66 to 80 as the count rises and the weight comes off. Album: The Only One Who Know Artist: Guinep Lane Style: Slow to mid roots reggae, one drop, 1970s analog production Lead instrument: Bandoneon Vocal: One female lead, alone, no backing voices on any track Lyrics are on screen for every track. This music was generated with the assistance of AI. The lyrics, concept, sequencing and album notes were written by hand. #rootsreggae #reggae #fullalbum #jamaica #1970sreggae #reggaemusic #vinyl #aimusic #guineplane #bandoneon