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  1. 99%

From the recording 99%

 

Independent Vancouver artist Norine Braun releases a new single, Ninety Nine Percent. The gritty, progressive sound of 99% has edge, sonics and is full of adult alternative hooks that AAA audiences understand. Braun recruited a killer collection of local roots rock, soul and blues players for the single and upcoming album including: Juno nominated producer/guitarist, Adam Popowitz, drummer/percussionist Elliot Polsky, blues harpist Andrew “Huggybear” Huggard and pianist Alice Fraser. Using 99% as a muse, Norine is currently writing the material for the next album due out in 2013.Following on the heels of last year’s release No.8, Braun intensifies the moxie with 99% giving more than a nod to alternative feels and urban blues, a la Black Keys, Kings of Leon and The Pretenders. The song pays tribute to the unifying slogan of how the 99% are paying the price for the mistakes of a small minority. Braun has pledged 1% of the net profits of 99% to be donated to a non-profit organization dedicated to saving the planet.Hard working DIY indie artist Norine Braun has an impressive and prolific catalogue of 8 albums. The recipient of awards like Songs Inspired By Literature international songwriting competition and the prestigious ‘Female Singer-Songwriter of the Year’  at the Independent L.A. Music Awards, Braun, even as a newcomer, has dazzled her critics as “a rare find,” according to The Best Female Musicians Magazine.

 
 

Lyrics

99% (Ninety Nine Percent) I got something I got it in the bag Don’t look at me mister You’'d be better off dead We got busted for planning It'’s in the back of my head We got morning in the coffee yeah The blues is back in bed Mama’'s in the kitchen Papa hit the sack Up all night he’s looking But no one calls him back Do we pay for groceries? Or do we pay the rent? Scrounging in the garbage We'’re the 99% Occupy corruption Overtake and lead Even Jesus angered When he tossed away the greed Lining up for lunch People'’s right should rule Lining up for jobs Corporate wrongs so cruel Watching our destruction Or are the 99 ahead? We won'’t lost the world to evil But to those who watch instead My gal’s on piano She playing it real well Musing on this blues riff As we drift on down to hell We dream of baskets and the babies Dream of corn and the gravies Living on empties Living on maybe, maybe, maybes Nothing to fall back on On nothing to depend We gotta sweet sense We got no cents We gotta sixth sense We got no sense We gotta sweet sense ©Norine Braun 2012 SOCAN