Oliver Anthony
Posted on 08/11/2023 12:55:18 PM PDT by shadowlands1960
Singer-songwriter Oliver Anthony became an overnight sensation with his song “Rich Men North of Richmond” in August, and the story behind the hit sent chills up my spine.
Anthony lives off-grid on 90 acres in Farmville, Virginia, with his three dogs, according to Whiskey Riff. You can picture Anthony’s life pretty easily through the heart-wrenching vocals and lyrics of his debut hit single. The song is one giant F-U to the men (and women) wearing suits in Washington D.C. and the corporate overlords who control them and screw up the rest of America for their own profits.
An acoustic version of the song was shared online by Radio VW, and it hit like a brick wall with those of us living out in the middle of nowhere, wondering what the heck is going on in our cities.
“Just want you to know I cried on my way home from the plant listening to this. I haven’t ever heard someone making music really talk about how it truly is out here. Had chills the whole time, I really hope you make it, dude, because you’re what we need right now,” one person wrote, according to Whiskey Riff.
Anthony’s music resonates with America’s working class like no other performer before him. A recent interview with Jason Howerton, revealed why.
Anthony’s past includes struggles with mental health, alcohol addiction and the despair felt by so many people navigating life in the 2020s. Things came to a head one night, and Anthony knew he had a decision to make. “Though he wasn’t a religious man, that night he promised God to get sober if he helped him follow his dream,” Howerton explained.
(video of song at link)
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WOW, that’s incredible
Sounds too whiny
He just ‘whined’ his way into being a rich man himself. Personally I think he has a great voice for country style music.
For later.
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Not really. It sounds like heartfelt, emotional pain and frustration. I.e., it sounds very real.
Sounds too whiny.
He’ll fit right in with Johnny Cash and Coulter Wall.
Sounds like a bitch born after 1980. Just my opinion.
Sounds like a bitch born after 1980. Just my opinion.
I’ve been selling my soul
Working all day
Overtime hours
For bullshit pay
So I can sit out here and waste my life away
Drag back home and drown my troubles away
It’s a damn shame
What the world’s gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
But it is, oh, it is
Living in the new world
With an old soul
These rich men north of Richmond
Lord knows they all just want to have total control
Wanna know what you think
Wanna know what you do
And they don’t think you know, but I know that you do
Cause your dollar ain’t shit, and it’s taxed to no end
‘Cause of rich men north of Richmond
I wish politicians would look out for miners
And not just minors on an island somewhere
Lord, we got folks in the street, ain’t got nothing to eat
And the obese milking welfare
Well God, if you’re 5 foot 3 and you’re 300 pounds
Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds
Young men are putting themselves six feet in the ground
‘Cause all this damn country does is keep on kicking them down
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Lord, it’s a damn shame
What the world’s gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
But it is, oh, it is
Living in the new world
With an old soul
These rich men north of Richmond
Lord knows they all just want to have total control
Wanna know what you think
Wanna know what you do
And they don’t think you know, but I know that you do
‘Cause your dollar ain’t shit, and it’s taxed to no end
‘Cause of rich men north of Richmond
I’ve been selling my soul
Working all day
Overtime hours
For bullshit pay
After about thirty seconds of the song though the song kept playing the page auto switched to a page about a song about gay men in the 50s as the “antidote” to try that in a small town . The left never quit. They never ever quit.
Sorry. I didn’t play it through from that link.
Good song. REAL country music.
I liked his music as well. And, his message was spot on!
“How an obscure singer is reshaping the White Supremacist movement.”
LOL. Perfect!
Another name on the list of collaborators! TY!
Another name on the list of collaborators! TY!
Genuine and authentic. Tells the truth.
Anyone who criticizes this song is at best clueless, and worst an enemy.
Be quiet child
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