The Other 99% - Revival of the Fittest

The Other 99%

Kazoo & Tambourine Repair Co.
Hoots & Hellmouth
Mason Porter
WoodPussy & WhistlePig

The Other 99% is not a band; it’s a movement. It’s a rebellion against the idea that music is a one-way street…that performer and audience members must keep to themselves. It’s an attempt to channel our individual experiences into a kind of group catharsis, wherein the terms "audience” and “performer” dissolve into one another. The Other 99% performs with a crowd, not for it.

Revival Of The Fittest is more than just a playful twist on an old scientific theory. We’ve chosen to take the songs of a bygone era and make them our own. The same passions that drove those in the early part of the 20th century still ring true almost a century later. These tunes, most of which are pre-WWII, have a fire that we seek to preserve and to stoke into a raging bonfire. Gather round, y’all…things are about to get real hot. Yaw!

In memory of: Leadbelly, Elizabeth Cotton, Rev. Gary Davis, countless field hands, prison gangs, mountaineers, jug bands, holiness congregations and anyone else given to songs of unbridled expression.

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Songs

Revival of The Fittest
Live (8/27/05)

30 Days.mp3
Oh Glory How Happy I Am.mp3
Candyman.mp3
Samson & Delilah.mp3
Pallet On Your Floor.mp3
Banks Of The River.mp3
Freight Train.mp3
Frankie & Albert.mp3
Sinner Man.mp3
Cocaine.mp3
Hesitation Blues.mp3
Babe It Aint No Lie.mp3
Chug-A-Lug.mp3
Shake Sugaree.mp3
Good Times.mp3
Old Time Religion.mp3
Groundhog.mp3
Down To The River To Pray.mp3