Name: One Drop
Duration: P00H05M45S
Description: Spaced-out dub reggae call-to-action, calling out the power structure while calling on the listener's empathy.

One Drop

from THE PINSTRIPES / I by The Pinstripes

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Because of length restrictions when pressing up high-quality LP's (after a certain point, the more music per side, the lower the audio quality, especially low end!) we picked 7 of the album tunes to stand as the LP tracklist. Could we have pressed all the onto one LP? Probably. But if they all sound like a bad mp3, then what's the point!? Fear not, though. This LP package is one you can't pass up. Read on!

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-11"x22" folding paper insert with complete lyrics, album credits, and poster art
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-Full copy of The Pinstripes / I CD in a paper sleeve
-Special edition Pinstripes / I silver foil sticker
-PDF Liner notes and desktop/iphone wallpapers on "enhanced content" CD

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Contents include:
-13 tracks of reggae/ska/soul/dub/fire from Cincinnati's finest in the game
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-Special edition Pinstripes / I gold foil sticker
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Spaced-out dub reggae call-to-action, calling out the power structure while calling on the listener's empathy.

lyrics

The power in the system
Has got to change
The privilege in the system
We’ve got to rearrange
The One Drop rule was created to choose it
We take that one drop
And put it in our music
We put it in the riddim
And put it in the drum beat
It runs through our veins
But some say they don’t see
They don’t, they don’t say they see

So feel the one drop
Feel it in your blood
Now feel this one drop
So we can rise above
And feel the one drop
Feel it in your blood
So we can rise up

So why them care
Who was your great grandmother
You can’t steal our rights
We must walk as brothers and sisters
Of a great family
We’ve got to build it now
With U-N-I-T, And I’ll tell you Y
Because it’s been too long
The tides have changed
And we won’t carry on
We won’t, we won’t carry on

credits

from THE PINSTRIPES / I, released February 3, 2012
** Words&Music: Sarason **

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The Pinstripes Cincinnati, Ohio

Winners of the 07, 09 and 2010 Cincinnati Entertainment Award for Best World Band, and 2010 nominees for Best Live Act, The Pinstripes don’t merely play reggae and soul music — they inhabit the sound like it’s a ramshackle house that’s keeping them alive. ... more