I think that line has 3 different meanings to be taken from it. 1- Miners, not minors on an island 2- Miners, not miners on an Island 3- Minors, not minors on an island
oh yes, those corrupt sacks of corp controlled (insert word) He made an Anthem for all of us, I for one am done with how stuff is going, Biden failed all of us and sends more and more of OUR tax money to a war
It really rich compromised politicians selling out everyone else. They play divide and conquer so people are fighting each other and not noticing what the politicians do to everyone. God bless❤
Oliver was 30 days sober when he did this video ,one night he dropped to his knees and asked God to help him get over his drinking problem and depression. (A local paper interviewed him) Now look at him all i can say is God is good and I wish this guy the best of luck. I just hope Tom,Adam and Upchurch get to him and let him know to stay independent and not give his soul to the music industry. ✌🏼♥️🇺🇸
@@ryaniscool.1245 I was not comparing him to thim I was just stating hopefully they can talk to him about staying Independent and not signing to a label.
I lived in Lynchburg and worked in Farmville long story short Farmville is a simple place a true small town I'm sure he is just as humble as everyone I met there I miss VA live in Baltimore now hard not to miss that part of VA
This isn't just a song, it's an anthem for all the people being stepped on and forgotten about in Middle America. People are fed up, and this song perfectly demonstrates how we feel.
Middle America is just the tip, the rest of us are under the foot of tyranny in the west, battles will be fought but the war will be won by the people!
exactly. i been stating...stay independent, like Tom MacDonald, so you do not sell your spirit and soul to the Devil fortune and fame... he needs to stay where he is meaning do not change his lifestyle because it is exactly that which gave him the raw passion, heart, emotion, spirit and soul to make the music he does, you change that recipe then you change the whole thing.
@@RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217 Tom McDonald's is a pandering clown. He is just taking advantage of the gullible cult. Oliver is making honest music.
Gentlemen, welcome to authentic, real, raw, Appalachian Blues. Sung by an authentic Scotch-Irish Appalachian boy. Appalachian Blues like Bluegrass has it's roots in Irish folk music and Mississippi Delta blues. Just a factory worker and tradesman a few weeks ago, writing songs and singing in the woods with his dogs. THIS is the REAL DEAL. Enjoy.
Thank you for sharing that.. it's educational - i love to learn especially utmost when it's about what God/Jesus teaches. I see Appalachian folk make clear it's not country music, it's Appalachian folk music.
@@RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217 Yes. "Appalachia Blues" officially, but given the Irish influence is absolutely a form of folk music!! Oliver is a classic example of a descendant of the Scotch Irish people who when they found Appalachia settled there as it reminded them so much of home: The hills/mountains of Northern Ireland.
The other day me and my girlfriend were out at dinner, and a guy on a motorcycle rode through dowtown on a motorcyle blasting this song. We both js looked at eachother an smiled, it really is the people's anthem. You could feel it, everyone there knew the song.
😂😂😂😂 Working??? He’s an out of work alcoholic musician that “woke” up the insurrectionists😂 Appealing to the crybaby😭 complainers that want nothing more to bit ch about EVERYTHING. Man up💪🏼
Saw that... was awesome to see... he also has his own YT channel... has had it for awhile but should blow up now... does some covers and other originals... worth checking out for sure...
I've been binge-watching your channel. And what might surprise you is that I'm a 62-year-old white woman from the burbs. You guys crack me up. And you prove how much we actually have in common-not all divided up based on our color, gender, age, etc. What unites us is if we have common beliefs, no matter the other stuff.
Out of the ten richest counties in the US five are around DC. Four in Virginia and one in Maryland. That tells me our public servants are living much better that the rest of our country. We’ve been sold out to foreign countries and corporations. Enough is enough.
Yeah people are always talking about rich business men but I care waaay more about rich politicians that became crazy wealthy while they are supposedly career public servants.
@@Olivia-bl8ez all multi-millionaires from a $187,000 a year salary. The fact is, and the hard truth is, no is going to stop it. America is soon to be a 3rd world economy and we're watching it unfold.
English teacher here and noticed your confusion as to the spelling. Miners are the guys who look for coal, minors are the kids. It doesn't matter, but hoping one day it will matter again!
Well, Politicians didnt lookout for the minors Epstein island either, or they wouldnt have sealed and hidden away the list of elites in Epsteins black book.
First time I heard this song I cried. We're small business owners who worked from morning till night every day...only to have everything we sacrificed for taken in the name of taxes and fairness. Our health insurance went from $300 a month to $1650 with less coverage. And our taxes and fee's were increased constantly. They don't want us to survive anymore. Corporations get all the benefits and protection from the people we voted into office.
I am all teared up... And i am not even American, I am Greek living in the Netherlands, this guy touched my soul, we are also selling our souls in this part of the world. Great song, GREAT VOICE...
There were hundreds of iconic anti Vietnam war (protest) songs of the 60’s and 70’s. Now we have the first New World Order Protest anthem!!! 🌟 Thank you Oliver Anthony!
Instead of taking aim at our capitalist overlords (billionaires), he calls out people on welfare. So it’s all poor people’s fault? This song is so dumb and it’s sadly predictable that a certain portion of the population will just eat it up
@livinglife4835 yes, but she had to step out of her bluegrass roots and do pop country to get anywhere. Don't get me wrong, I love her pop country, it's just nice to see bluegrass getting some mainstream respect.
I hope this brings a change to Nashville and the California pop bs is permanently excised from county music I gave up on country music when cmt started allowing bs like without me in there shows .
Exactly! All politicians and the top1% concluded with each others. It has always been this way but now it is far worse because now they want to control everything with AI.
As a richmonder, he’s def talking about DC I think. It’s a straight drive to DC from Richmond and there isn’t much between. Just suburbs for people working in DC.
"Oliver Anthony really does punch down on the poor. The lives of ordinary working people are being torn apart by the rich, he laments, but we can fix it if we cut welfare - and taxes too. Listening to the lyrics in that context, I came to understand why the song had gone viral among rightwing figures in the US. It’s a classic example of the divisive narrative that bosses have used to pit worker against worker since the days of Joe Hill. If the poor are fighting one another over racial hierarchy or cultural grievance, their anger will be directed away from the people responsible for their plight - the rich who exploit those in work and abandon those in need." Billy Bragg 2023
We'd all be happy to do the same. Technology has made most jobs easier, but many of us still work our asses off. The real difference isn't in the amount of effort, but in the relative pay. Your father could afford to support a family with his job. I don't know a single soul below the age of 50 that has only one job right now, that doesn't also have 1 or 2 roommates that they have to live with to afford the rent in a two bedroom apartment.
If only it was so simple these days. It has become so difficult to afford a family with only one source of income. Sounds like he was a great man, in my youth my father wasn't around as much as he wishes he could have been but he worked so hard to allow us to be together and give us what he could.
He's an off grid farmer and just joined twitter recently. But 3 of his songs as of last night are the top 10 of itunes. This song is now known as the anthem to the working class.
I completely agree. We have to get aimed in the same direction, at the root of the problem. There are just a tiny group of people ruining everything for everyone else. Once people get on the same page that governments are just violent criminal gangs who extort and rob people for their own benefit, stop pointing fingers at each other, and instead point at those who are really wrecking everything, then the game is over.
Bro I’m a Romanian living in my home country and this hits me deep. Your country and it’s politics have a really far reach. We all need to stand up to this divide and conquer mentality. ❤️
I was thinking about him today, and been listening to this song on youtube. Still makes me tear up. Fortunately I made past living hand to mouth, but that first decade was an struggle of barely getting by. I remember coming out to the parking lot after waitressing over 8 hours trying to make rent, and seeing a flat tire on my car and just breaking down in tears. Supposedly this month marks a year since this song came out.
He is viral now - he just sang live for the first time ever in a Richmond farmers market The crowd was singing along. This man is the original. Untouched by any label or promoter, just pure raw emotion
His first time with that many people, before he sang, he made like a speech, and was saying how back in June he played there and there was about 20 people, and now hes playing and theres 6000 and how if he can do it then we can, and then he read out of the bible!
He should stay away from the money handlers, they'll have him wearing a cowboy hat and singing about partying everyday in a pick up truck with a girl in cut off jean shorts. This song is promoting itself with its simple truths, and people everywhere know it. The New World Order is set to take control of every aspect of your life. I'm 70 years old and will not live to see it, but my children and grandchildren will. Something needs to change and quickly.
I'm Portuguese and I can relate to what he is singing, I think most people around the world, if they listen the song, they will feel the same way. Very few rich man control the world now and although the countries in Europe have a lot of political partys to vote for ( Communist, Socialist, Christian Democrat, Royalist, Green, Liberal, Anarchist, Nationalist Patriotic, etc.), they are in the rich man pocket. Our clown president is going around now in ex-Portuguese Africa, preaching the war in Ukraine so the rich man north of Richmond (Virginia) can make billions of dollares. Pray my dear, pray.
Guys, Imm an Iraqi living in Zimbabwe and this song resonates with all of us. Rich men north of Richmond have global reach. We all the same ! Much love !
Thx for checking out this song guys, I’ve can’t stop listening to it and seeing peoples reactions, it’s really resonating with people all over the world
It’s funny. Inbred rednecks think people give two $hits what they think of them. This song isn’t doing anything worldwide. It’s just more talking points that get idiots to spend money. The conservative right just looooooves the idiots. Cha, Ching!
I taught high school English for 35 years and it's refreshing and encouraging to see young men have thoughtful and intellectual conversations about today's issues.
I often wonder what my high school English teacher Mr. Lundquist would think about today's current political environment. He was my favorite teacher because he taught us more about life than just book learning. You know, how to think. Not what to think.
This is the kind of folk/country music I appreciate. The working man's blues. Not that truck-driving, buy shorty a drink finger-snapping commercial pop stuff.
What happened to rap music is the same thing that happened to country music. Back in the 90's and even 2000's when there was actually good rap has been replaced with absolutely garbage which is what is popular. Same with country music. The good stuff gets covered up with all the crappy garbage over produces trash gets pushed to the front
I wish that were the case. But sadly I fear the fix is in. The combination of corruption, uneducated Americans, and a corrupt media will ensure this problem continues.
@@YankeeMugwump Except it is the "educated" Americans and other countries elites around that world, including the mainstream media, that are entrenching themselves into a ruling class and creating the conditions Oliver is talking about.
This is the new anthem for “We The People!” It’s not for a specific side, Republican or Democrat. It’s for all of us who are FED UP with our government!! United we stand divided we fall.
It's absolutely for a specific side, mostly the right. Not everyone agrees with this non-sense. Some of us are happy for our tax dollars to be used to help the less fortunate. Why would he call out the least fortunate people on welfare when there are plenty of fat cats milking the country illegally for far more than any welfare recipient.
It's the most powerful song I've heard in a very long time. It's raw, authentic, real and heartfelt. It hits your soul directly if you have one. I cried the first time i heard it and I still get goosebumps. His story is inspirational. He struggled with alcohol and depression when he fell to his knees and prayed to God. God took it all away. A local radio station recorded this and posted it. He was so surprised when so many people resonated. Polo tv posted him at the farmers market today about 2 hours ago. Standing room only and everyone was singing along.
I’m from the uk I felt every word .This is a song is for the working classes every where in the west, his voice is so beautiful real/raw honest talent telling the truth.
Word this goes for the whole worker population not just the west, the children working in sweatshops in asia for western companies could resonate with this song too if they could speak english shit same for africa, this the global effect of the system (corrupt governments x capitalism)
This song brings me to tears every time! We the people are ALL in this together. We are more alike than we are different. It’s time to start acting like it! ✌️🇺🇸
If you got an American flag in your comment calling for everyone to do nothing, you either didn’t understand or you’re being paid by someone north of Richmond to throw water on the fire
I’m a South Korean American immigrant and the song hits my soul deeply. I’m glad many of us Americans with different color, culture and background can resonate with a song written from a man’s heart.
@CongressSux1776 you're kidding right? You become an American when you come here. I'm guessing you're one of those people who yell "go back to where you came from" when you're angry. Unless you're native American, you really can't talk regarding that.
Powerful song, dude on the right was feelin it look at his brow furrow, dude 2nd from left was just wincing. You can tell they were digging it and understood the words. Bravo, gents...
I love his story. When he wrote this song, he was 30 days sober from drinking, and he prayed with all his soul, for God to give him a purpose. Apparently God answered him. PRAISE BE TO JESUS CHRIST,!!!! HALLELUJAH
There are two kinds of country music; you've got "my girl left with the dog, the beer's run out, and my truck broke down", and then there's REAL country music like this.
@@slipstreammonkey Off Grid simply means self sufficient. Well water, solar, wind or generator for power. Usually a garden and some livestock. You can do it on 2 acres, 5 10 or 90!
@@littlewing4299 cool, so my power gets shut off and suddenly I'm cool cause I live off the grid. It's bogus, he worked in a factory and he'll stay in a factory.
@@slipstreammonkey What? Off Grid pertains to his home and land lifestyle choice, which has nothing to do with where he works. I guess he will work in the factory if he needs to until he doesn't have to. Maybe he will make bank off his music. Who knows? Why does it bother you?
this song unites us in the exact way the "rich men north of richmond" want to divide us. see what we can accomplish when we stop fighting each other and turn our gaze to the rich men north of richmond.
They only control the ones who will put on a mask, that their poison shot and close down their business while their meager wealth is redistributed to the top .0000001%. @@Oilman6969
They don't want the men of America uniting and fighting back against them, so they divide and down trodden you all to not unite or have the energy and finances to. But at the end of the day, if a farmer can't sell their food, they will just trade it for goods they need and skip the currency issues.
Love yalls reactions! I'm a 40 yr old Latino in los Angeles this song hits hard for everyone not just in America but the world! We the last ones standing to make a difference as a whole! We as in the humans of earth, we are all one in this together in this insane world/new world order. Our skin colors makes us stronger, not separate! As kids we are all friends because it's just spirits with spirits. These powers that think they be made us hate each other. United we stand, divided we fall. We are all struggling together from dark forces that have created whats going on for another RESET. The Internet was for "THEM" too to control us but now the interwebs is uniting ppls while the main stream media keepa pushing its agendas of hate and division
He's singing about the plight of young men in this country, black, white, and brown. Historically high rates of suicide, homelessness, drug and alcohol related deaths, lowering levels of education, lowering life expectancy, lowering standards of living, the #1 victims of violent crime and murder, and the most incarcerated demographic in the country.
It would be great if men of all races, creeds, and backgrounds would band together instead of letting the elites put us against each other. Those in power don't want strong men. Strong men can remove those elites from power.
Theme song for the new Cultural Revolution and National Revival coming in the USA 🙏🇺🇸🙏 We The People Have had enough of the BS from the ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’
Not just the US.... reading comments from Sweden, UK, Germany, Canada, etc. That is a WOW factor for a song to speak on behalf a whole class of good, hard working people across the globe.
I came here to say exactly that... it may be an American song and it may be a folk song...but it's speaking the Truth to every single country on this planet. It represents every single citizen on this Earth that has felt the exact same sentiment in the exact same way he sang it. Fed TF Up Beyond Belief is the vibe from this song... Ready to Shut Shit Down is the tone of his voice. I LOVE IT. I hope that he stays independent... Hellyweird is corruptible and he needs no change from any part of the "SIN-dust-ry".
@@hornyconvict I literally don't see what all these clowns see in this song lmfao. Its literally so fucking basic, nothing about it is complex or hard to understand. Just goes to show how you need to really dumb something down for people to understand. Very on brand for the people of Appalachia.
This man has quickly become a hero to all of us in the Appalachia. This ain’t country. This right here is Appalachian folk. God Bless Christopher and Oliver❤️
You’re absolutely right. I’m 71. My father was born in Kentucky in 1896. When I was little he would not listen to what they called country music on the radio, called it crap. He had a bunch of old 95 rpm lacquer records with serious old times bluegrass and jug band music. Closest thing I know of that most people would recognize is the music in the movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou”.
@@JJJOOSSHHHThat remains to be seen. There's only one way to remove a corrupt system, and it would mean the lives of millions of people will be forever changed if not lost. Most people recognize that. History shows there will be a breaking point.
Latest statement by Oliver(Chris) Anthony---It's been difficult as I browse through the 50,000+ messages and emails I've received in the last week. The stories that have been shared paint a brutally honest picture. Suicide, addiction, unemployment, anxiety and depression, hopelessness and the list goes on. Im sitting in such a weird place in my life right now. I never wanted to be a full time musician, much less sit at the top of the iTunes charts. Draven from RadioWv and I filmed these tunes on my land with the hope that it may hit 300k views. I still don't quite believe what has went on since we uploaded that. It's just strange to me. People in the music industry give me blank stares when I brush off 8 million dollar offers. I don't want 6 tour buses, 15 tractor trailers and a jet. I don't want to play stadium shows, I don't want to be in the spotlight. I wrote the music I wrote because I was suffering with mental health and depression. These songs have connected with millions of people on such a deep level because they're being sung by someone feeling the words in the very moment they were being sung. No editing, no agent, no bullshit. Just some idiot and his guitar. The style of music that we should have never gotten away from in the first place. So that being said, I have never taken the time to tell you who I actually am. Here's a formal introduction: My legal name is Christopher Anthony Lunsford. My grandfather was Oliver Anthony, and "Oliver Anthony Music" is a dedication not only to him, but 1930's Appalachia where he was born and raised. Dirt floors, seven kids, hard times. At this point, I'll gladly go by Oliver because everyone knows me as such. But my friends and family still call me Chris. You can decide for yourself, either is fine. In 2010, I dropped out of high school at age 17. I have a GED from Spruce Pine, NC. I worked multiple plant jobs in Western NC, my last being at the paper mill in McDowell county. I worked 3rd shift, 6 days a week for $14.50 an hour in a living hell. In 2013, I had a bad fall at work and fractured my skull. It forced me to move back home to Virginia. Due to complications from the injury, it took me 6 months or so before I could work again. From 2014 until just a few days ago, I've worked outside sales in the industrial manufacturing world. My job has taken me all over Virginia and into the Carolinas, getting to know tens of thousands of other blue collar workers on job sites and in factories. Ive spent all day, everyday, for the last 10 years hearing the same story. People are SO damn tired of being neglected, divided and manipulated. In 2019, I paid $97,500 for the property and still owe about $60,000 on it. I am living in a 27' camper with a tarp on the roof that I got off of craigslist for $750. There's nothing special about me. I'm not a good musician, I'm not a very good person. I've spent the last 5 years struggling with mental health and using alcohol to drown it. I am sad to see the world in the state it's in, with everyone fighting with each other. I have spent many nights feeling hopeless, that the greatest country on Earth is quickly fading away. That being said, I HATE the way the Internet has divided all of us. The Internet is a parasite, that infects the minds of humans and has their way with them. Hours wasted, goals forgotten, loved ones sitting in houses with each other distracted all day by technology made by the hands of other poor souls in sweat shops in a foreign land. When is enough, enough? When are we going to fight for what is right again? MILLIONS have died protecting the liberties we have. Freedom of speech is such a precious gift. Never in world history has the world had the freedom it currently does. Don't let them take it away from you. Just like those once wandering in the desert, we have lost our way from God and have let false idols distract us and divide us. It's a damn shame.
I'm a white man in the hills of Tennessee and I love you guys. Fist bump to you all. Don't let the politicians divide us. Let's unite and take this country back. Don't believe them most of us aren't racist black and white. Love you guys in Tennessee
So true. White man here in Canada (originally from Germany). Those guys put a smile on my face. People are so lethargic/inactive (especially in Canada) hopefully we can unite one day and strive for better.
That line “wish politicians would look out for miners, not just minors on an island somewhere” is absolute 🔥🔥 I think it means that they should care about the coal miners (and other poor hardworking folks) and not just be looking at teenage girls (minors) on a private island of a rich man (Jeffrey Epstein and the many politicians who he flew in to party there with underage girls). Wow 💣
It’s a double entendre. Wishing politicians cared about minors, not just minors in the face of the media but the child miners on the islands that have child labor mining precious metals and resources.
@@christopheryou5040I think it could have a couple meanings, miners as in coal miners, then minors on island somewhere is the second one referring to Epstein Island and all the politicians ….Coal mining is fading out in Appalachia and a lot of small towns that depended on it are dying off because there’s nothing here, not much here but coal mining, logging and oil and natural gas production
I'm in Britain, i hear and feel this song through my core. it's touching the whole world .I listened yesterday for the first time i think the words are now within ,so relevant. ❤
Love from across the waters in Canada to you my English brother. If this song hit you like it hit me, then I know I'm not alone out here. Peace my friend
My girlfriend's kid sent me this song last week. He's not even 20, but he's been working a few years now and feels the pain already. I'm an old dog at 46 and feel bad he feels that way already. It's a damn shame...
It is his generation that will be robbed more than any other before his in America. The working middle class and working poor have been systematically destroyed by the corrupt monetary policy of the democrats and the neo cons ( all who detest MAGA). Banks get bailed out when their gambling doesn't pay. NAZIs in Ukraine get trillions to pay for their people's pensions and to launder for the political campaigns of democrats and neo cons. Meanwhile we the people of America get screwed. We need a thousand more songs and a thousand more singers writing songs about this situation. The first thing the godless Marxists sought to destroy was art. Let's we the people take it back. It is more powerful than standing armies.
Old dog at 46? Man No, you just continue to support that young man with your experiences and advice! I can guarantee that Oliver Anthony is the product of someone in his life who took the time to share with him what it was like what it is like and what it will be like. Better times are just ahead! The American people have seen some difficult situations in the past and WE will overcome!
I'm not a country music fan, but this song just hits on another level. It's exactly how I feel, and how I know so many other Americans feel as well. I worked around the farm all day today (my only day off), trying to get caught up on things. Now I gotta go to bed and wake up tomorrow and bust my ass for the next 6 days so corrupt uncle Sam can take half of what I kill myself to earn. It ain't right what's happening in our country anymore. We kill ourselves to make a living just to survive, then the govt takes half, and then tries to pit us against one another in the meanwhile. Things need to change in this country, I'm sick of having my govt take my money, then calling me a racist in the meantime just because I'm white. As Oliver says, "it's a damn shame, what the world's become." We as Americans need to quit all the damn bickering, unite as one, and love each other and change this country back into what it was intended to be, a nation for the people, by the people. God bless you, gentlemen, and God bless our fallen nation 🇺🇸
Half the country doesn't vote to restore the country. They vote for those who want to dismantle it, and rebuild it into a totalitarian nightmare. I don't know if is possible to unite at this point
You are exactly right. If everyone would stop listening to what THEY are saying and start banding together we could change the world. But people are selfish and the devil has a hold on the minds that believe all that garbage. Shut the black box off and open the good book. The s souls would be saved and lives would be changed and then Jesus could open the eyes of the blind. They are blind to the truth.
He posted this on his page, his name is Christopher Anthony Lunsford, Oliver Anthony was his grandfather's name and he's paying homage to him by singing under "Oliver Anthony music" It's been difficult as I browse through the 50,000+ messages and emails I've received in the last week. The stories that have been shared paint a brutally honest picture. Suicide, addiction, unemployment, anxiety and depression, hopelessness and the list goes on. Im sitting in such a weird place in my life right now. I never wanted to be a full time musician, much less sit at the top of the iTunes charts. Draven from RadioWv and I filmed these tunes on my land with the hope that it may hit 300k views. I still don't quite believe what has went on since we uploaded that. It's just strange to me. People in the music industry give me blank stares when I brush off 8 million dollar offers. I don't want 6 tour buses, 15 tractor trailers and a jet. I don't want to play stadium shows, I don't want to be in the spotlight. I wrote the music I wrote because I was suffering with mental health and depression. These songs have connected with millions of people on such a deep level because they're being sung by someone feeling the words in the very moment they were being sung. No editing, no agent, no bullshit. Just some idiot and his guitar. The style of music that we should have never gotten away from in the first place. So that being said, I have never taken the time to tell you who I actually am. Here's a formal introduction: My legal name is Christopher Anthony Lunsford. My grandfather was Oliver Anthony, and "Oliver Anthony Music" is a dedication not only to him, but 1930's Appalachia where he was born and raised. Dirt floors, seven kids, hard times. At this point, I'll gladly go by Oliver because everyone knows me as such. But my friends and family still call me Chris. You can decide for yourself, either is fine. In 2010, I dropped out of high school at age 17. I have a GED from Spruce Pine, NC. I worked multiple plant jobs in Western NC, my last being at the paper mill in McDowell county. I worked 3rd shift, 6 days a week for $14.50 an hour in a living hell. In 2013, I had a bad fall at work and fractured my skull. It forced me to move back home to Virginia. Due to complications from the injury, it took me 6 months or so before I could work again. From 2014 until just a few days ago, I've worked outside sales in the industrial manufacturing world. My job has taken me all over Virginia and into the Carolinas, getting to know tens of thousands of other blue collar workers on job sites and in factories. Ive spent all day, everyday, for the last 10 years hearing the same story. People are SO damn tired of being neglected, divided and manipulated. In 2019, I paid $97,500 for the property and still owe about $60,000 on it. I am living in a 27' camper with a tarp on the roof that I got off of craigslist for $750. There's nothing special about me. I'm not a good musician, I'm not a very good person. I've spent the last 5 years struggling with mental health and using alcohol to drown it. I am sad to see the world in the state it's in, with everyone fighting with each other. I have spent many nights feeling hopeless, that the greatest country on Earth is quickly fading away. That being said, I HATE the way the Internet has divided all of us. The Internet is a parasite, that infects the minds of humans and has their way with them. Hours wasted, goals forgotten, loved ones sitting in houses with each other distracted all day by technology made by the hands of other poor souls in sweat shops in a foreign land. When is enough, enough? When are we going to fight for what is right again? MILLIONS have died protecting the liberties we have. Freedom of speech is such a precious gift. Never in world history has the world had the freedom it currently does. Don't let them take it away from you. Just like those once wandering in the desert, we have lost our way from God and have let false idols distract us and divide us. It's a damn shame.
This is a song for everyone. Every man. Every woman. No matter your skin color. No matter your religion. No matter your sexual preference. Red or blue, they don’t care about you, we have to take care of ourselves, and each other.
Amen. I am Black. from New York City. And this song is the hardest bars in America right now. I am glad this is number one. Not Drake, Not Megan Thee Ugly Stallion. Not Ice Spice. Not kill this not kill that, buT good homemade music with instruments. God Bless America. PS and I am not a Republican, I am just me.
I’m not from the US. I’m English. This song resonates with me and many others over here because it’s message is fundamentally a universal calling. Even across thousands of miles of ocean we humans face the exact same problems and daily struggles. We need to look to bond with one another and reject the devisive attitudes spread by the higher rungs of society. It’s that simple. Look out for one another and love each other with all your heart. Stay blessed people and much love to you ❤
The ones that want to divide us want GLOBAL control - they going for the one world government…it will be the elites against everyone else. Yes, we must look out for each other. Thank you for your uplifting comment and much love back at ya! ❤️
Racism is a game played by the middle class, for the benefit of the wealthy, and it happens all over. The idea that somebody is more than another person by rote, and not by experience or abiliity It happens back even before the Civil War, but let that conflict set the benchmark: Poor people fighting for the benefit of the rich, over something they can't even afford, under the guise of "states rights," and the idea that "Y'all'll _never_ be high-class, _but at least ya ain't no _*_MINORITY!_* Now *GET OUT THERE* and *FIGHT FOR MY RIGHT TO OWN A HUMAN BEING!!!"* We look at one another, are too happy to go at one another's throats, and the upper class isn't just happy to let us do it, they foster it to keep us preoccupied so we aren't watching _them._
It warms my Heart that young Black men can appreciate Country Music, even though my skin color is different from yours........WE are the Same God Bless You Guy's!!!!
It's certain types of Country (folk). It's a song about struggle, exploitation. These things hit with minority groups hard. As they would say. They've been on that shit. Listen to 2Pac. Majority of his songs are about Liberations and Struggles. Often when he mentions crime, murder, gang activity. He is doing so in a condemning way. 2pac would have lyrics saying people shouldn't sell drugs, but they are forced to do so from circumstances. But saying he wishes there was another way. 80s-90s rap is very enlightening if you take in the lyrics with a open mind. I gotta say though. I think the 2000s rap onwards really screwed up.
@@MutualistSoc Absolutely right bro. I'm a middle aged white guy and I Loved 2 Pac. He always spoke Straight up. That's Why they had him killed. The powers that be (of ALL Colors, Creeds, National origins and Religions) didn't want Him starting a wildfire Against them that they Knew they couldn't put out. Once We The People, All Come together and take a stand against these Thug Criminals in Politics all over the globe, They WILL LOSE biggly and they know it. There is but a couple million of Them vs a few BILLION of Us. All it takes, is for ALL OF US, to learn how to Set Aside all this PETTY BULLSHIT they keep tryin to use to keep US DIVIDED Against Each Other so we won't come together against Them! This song, to me, shows how it's ALL of us going thru some kind of bullshit struggle that's All brought onto all of us by the Corrupt Elites and Politicians of this planet.
Well…it’s young black men who were largely responsible for the origins of what is now called country music…as a category it was manufactured and marketed away from the blues, but it’s base is deeply familiar to them for sure.
I was sitting in traffic listening to brothers Osborne the other day. A black fella in the car next to me rolled down his window and yelled to get my attention. Asked if that was country music - why yes it is I said. He replied You converted me, I'm all over that shit! Tipped his blunt and drove off. Hehe... Quite the unexpected reaction - loved it. We bridged that cultural gap a bit.❤
God made one race. This song unites. Maybe a song like this will help people see through the smoke BS that powers to be use to divide us to reach their agendas
Y’all give me hope for this country. As a combat vet having to watch this country eating itself alive and fighting over things just because the government tells them it’s for the best or that they should be angry about it. They’ve convinced people it’s ok to suppress other peoples rights because they don’t agree with you. Thank you for being so humble, upfront, and honest. We need more people to realize what’s really going on so we can stop it.
Saying saving the children being molested and also the West Virginia coal miners. That was WV biggest economy back in the day but bc of “going green” they took a huge hit and the people been feeling it ever since.
It is called bluegrass. A lot of us grew up listening to our granddaddy's pick guitar or banjo and make up songs about life. It is a way of life in Appalachia mountains.
Not only that , it’s a problem we all feel so much everyday .. the people who have remained in power have destroyed we the people. And everything we hold dear. It is a damn shame.
“For people like me and you” 🤘😎🤘 Spot on assessment good sir!!! Edit: I was lucky enough to make it to his show today at Morris’s Farmers Market. Glad to see how well this hit you guys!
looks exactly like the one my dad played back in the 70's . I called it a dobro ..Im probably spelling it wrong but it could be played like a guitar or slide. My dads was made in japan..I cant remmember the name of the company that made those..
The guitar is a resonator, under the metal disc is an aluminum cone that acts like a mechanical amplifier. Dobro is a brand name like Gretsch, if the instrument has a round neck it’s played as a guitar, but a square neck is played with the instrument laying on the musician’s lap, using a slide and often using finger picks.
Shit is fire. This is why I love your family. When you see soul and passion, regardless if you like hat genre, you get it. You can't not like this. I would get upset! lol Not that that matters, but still.... good job, fam!
Then the whole point of his comment goes out the window. If he said men then the point they are black and are open to other genres of music doesn't hit the same. Everybody was thinking what he wrote or at least as it pertained to the people doing the reaction video. And there's nothing wrong with that. I would find it fucking hilarious if the dude who commented was black. Story of our current life. People getting offended by the treatment or portrayal of a certain demographic but that certain demographic could give two shits or a fuck. Like the Redskins changing their name to Commanders bc a couple white people were outraged. Same with Indians. I for one am offended by the name "Guardians" because it's fucking the worst name in sports barely edging out the "Commanders." Would you have corrected some guy who said these niggas if a black dude made the comment?
I'm not american, i dont live in the US, and i don't listen to country music that much..but somehow this song and the lyrics just hit me right in heart. the working class struggle, i guess we all feel the same.
@@user-el2lw6iu4y as i've said, i'm not that familiar with country music..we dont really listen to american country or folk music here in Indonesia and I didn't even know how this song showed up on my YT recommendation..but i'm glad it did.
@@DonHaka Sure sounds like he is targeting HIGH SOCIETY for his woes. Well, perhaps Russia will give this fellow and others of like mind a better option if in fact he is lashing out at capitalism. I'd love to evoke the love it or leave it thing. However, that retort has been the sole domain of right leaning folk in response to left leaning folk --when they were disillusioned with our system and it was never a logical retort to begin with. I truly support independent artists and there are plenty out there with good stuff. Anyway, the song is lacking for all the attention it is getting but that is how it goes in America. I will stick with Woody G. or Pete S. or Dylan or Johnny Paycheck for protest songs.
@@user-el2lw6iu4y Well what exactly is high society if not the wealthiest of the wealthy? The capitalist system only benefits the wealthy (i.e the capitalist class) and effectively oppresses the working class. I do however agree that the song itself is overrated, but if it's making people realize that we're all being fucked i dont complain.
This song resonates with almost EVERYONE!! Does not matter where you live, your politics, your ideology, your ethnicity, gender....nothing! Every American not part of the political and/or social elite are tired of those in power not looking out for our best interests, keeping us down, and enriching themselves off the blood, sweat, and tears of the common working person.
@@usmanbarak2615 100%, although I would argue that it started to become clear with how the elites reacted to someone outside the establishment being elected President. They will do anything to maintain power and prevent their dirty laundry from being aired for all to see. But I agree, the pandemic was also a huge tipping point. What scares me, is just how many people were willing to both surrender their freedoms and to take them away from their neighbors.
I’m not trying to be racist, but it is really awesome and kind of hilarious to see blacks bickering about their favorite country artist. It’s amazing, I used to think this music was polarizing, and instead, especially all these years later, it’s actually unifying people. That’s exactly what we need. This is an excellent video!
I love hearing the imperfections in his voice when he sings. The little "cracks" when he's changing notes. Lots of bluegrass do it. But the music industry has ripped the soul out of music and make it 100% perfect. I like hearing the imperfections. Example. Listen to Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon wheel. Now listen to, Darius Rucker - Wagon Wheel. 100% Old Crows version you feel the emotions in his voice.
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Cant believe yall missed the "Miners instead of Minors on an island somewhere" line. That was the hardest line in the entire song.
I think that line has 3 different meanings to be taken from it.
1- Miners, not minors on an island
2- Miners, not miners on an Island
3- Minors, not minors on an island
They're west of Appalachia, it's still appreciated I think.
-from Wyoming.
I’m from Wyoming too. We want Trump back!
He has a video on RUclips he dropped right before he released this song explaining his thoughts on the youth .
Epstein Island Minors
Rich men north of Richmond.....the politicians in Washington DC.
That's exactly what it's about 💯
oh yes, those corrupt sacks of corp controlled (insert word) He made an Anthem for all of us, I for one am done with how stuff is going, Biden failed all of us and sends more and more of OUR tax money to a war
Yup!!!
Was about to say that.
Thanks radar
As a black woman, I relate to a large majority of what that man is singing about and I feel it to my core. Looks like I have a new favorite artists!
"People like me, and people like you." For all of us who been kicked a few too many times. 🙂
It really rich compromised politicians selling out everyone else. They play divide and conquer so people are fighting each other and not noticing what the politicians do to everyone. God bless❤
@@CH-kr2df exactly! Very well said!
I feel it too. I think most of this country can relate. We're all getting screwed over together. God bless
Any one getting fucked over by the government can relate to this song. Which is pretty much everybody except the governments across the world.
This isn't country music, this is music for the Country!
Damn right!
Hell yeah
100%
This isn't country music, this is folk music,,, Hard hitting folk music deep from the soul
That's how it's supposed to be
That's not country music. That's straight-up Appalachian folk music. 😊
It's the blues
@@eternallife9786no.. it's not
Damn Skippy
lil fact...this was his first time singing into a microphone...
Was just about to type the same thing. You're correct.
Oliver was 30 days sober when he did this video ,one night he dropped to his knees and asked God to help him get over his drinking problem and depression. (A local paper interviewed him)
Now look at him all i can say is God is good and I wish this guy the best of luck. I just hope Tom,Adam and Upchurch get to him and let him know to stay independent and not give his soul to the music industry.
✌🏼♥️🇺🇸
Totally agree with you, even commented on his page that I hope he does stay pure & independent! God is good!
Gross he’s nothing like Tom or Adam. He’s actually talking about real problems
@@ryaniscool.1245
I was not comparing him to thim I was just stating hopefully they can talk to him about staying Independent and not signing to a label.
❤🙏🙏🙏💪💪💪🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Amen honey! God is mighty!
As a hardworking factory worker father of four. This song broke me. Not going to lie this song made me cry. This guy understands.
you're not alone brother...
Bless you & yours❤
You are NOT alone!❤🙏🇺🇸
Yes, I seen a guy cry on tiktok to this and I wasn't even shocked by it. This song hits different
@@EssetheartistI read the comments on his channel and it made me chocked up and I consider myself a pretty hard man.
Sat behind him and his family 2 weeks ago on a flight. Genuine down to earth guy and his kids were awesome. He's for the people. Allllll the people!
Yeeeeaaaah, and he's also my 2nd cousin..😂
I lived in Lynchburg and worked in Farmville long story short Farmville is a simple place a true small town I'm sure he is just as humble as everyone I met there I miss VA live in Baltimore now hard not to miss that part of VA
@@DirtyDangles410 I lived in Temple,Ga and I swear to God I miss that old southern town.. ain't like that no more tho, grown up & out...
As everyone should be.
Fuck those that align with a political party. You're the problem in the world
This isn't just a song, it's an anthem for all the people being stepped on and forgotten about in Middle America. People are fed up, and this song perfectly demonstrates how we feel.
Preach. All over the world- it's a fight for our souls and we will not give up.
or just all around the world if you look at the comments... some of the stuff there still applies everywhere...
Oliver inspires me.. My parents said if i get 40K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally
Begging...
Middle America is just the tip, the rest of us are under the foot of tyranny in the west, battles will be fought but the war will be won by the people!
not just Middle America
You can hear the pain and sorrow in this man’s voice, God bless this true patriot!!!
exactly. i been stating...stay independent, like Tom MacDonald, so you do not sell your spirit and soul to the Devil fortune and fame... he needs to stay where he is meaning do not change his lifestyle because it is exactly that which gave him the raw passion, heart, emotion, spirit and soul to make the music he does, you change that recipe then you change the whole thing.
Totally agree, also point I think these gentlemen missed was when he talked minors on an island out there. He’s referring to Epstein Island.
@@Glenn-wn3uc I thought that was obvious 😳
@@RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217 Tom McDonald's is a pandering clown. He is just taking advantage of the gullible cult. Oliver is making honest music.
@@Glenn-wn3uche also said miners like Wv coal miners,
Gentlemen, welcome to authentic, real, raw, Appalachian Blues. Sung by an authentic Scotch-Irish Appalachian boy.
Appalachian Blues like Bluegrass has it's roots in Irish folk music and Mississippi Delta blues.
Just a factory worker and tradesman a few weeks ago, writing songs and singing in the woods with his dogs. THIS is the REAL DEAL. Enjoy.
Don't forget darn fine whiskey.
you mean american? you muhricans have been harkin back to your british roots a lot lately, why is that? you hate the uk and britain same as ancestors.
And moonshine that can peel paint
Thank you for sharing that.. it's educational - i love to learn especially utmost when it's about what God/Jesus teaches. I see Appalachian folk make clear it's not country music, it's Appalachian folk music.
@@RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217 Yes. "Appalachia Blues" officially, but given the Irish influence is absolutely a form of folk music!! Oliver is a classic example of a descendant of the Scotch Irish people who when they found Appalachia settled there as it reminded them so much of home: The hills/mountains of Northern Ireland.
The other day me and my girlfriend were out at dinner, and a guy on a motorcycle rode through dowtown on a motorcyle blasting this song. We both js looked at eachother an smiled, it really is the people's anthem. You could feel it, everyone there knew the song.
That part broke me 😅💔
THIS MAN SPEAKS FOR FOR ALL OF US, THE SILENT MILLIONS MAJORITY!
😂😂😂😂
Working???
He’s an out of work alcoholic musician that “woke” up the insurrectionists😂
Appealing to the crybaby😭 complainers that want nothing more to bit ch about EVERYTHING.
Man up💪🏼
His voice is ours and it’s amazing to hear!
The silent millions that are too lazy to come together and eject corruption by force, and simply allow it to continue? Those silent millions majority?
Time for us to stop being silent!!!!! They did not ask our permission to destroy our world!!!!
Man released this a few days ago, he’s already playing concerts where EVERYONE IS SINGING THE WORDS.
I can’t imagine how good that must feel .
Saw that... was awesome to see... he also has his own YT channel... has had it for awhile but should blow up now... does some covers and other originals... worth checking out for sure...
Jamie Johnson even showed up to one of his pop up concerts this week and sang with him
That made me cry....
Regardless of where you come from or color of your skin. Hes singing for all of us right now.
man is revieing the soul of the nation
Yeah....... No..... He's not.
@@ACoupleStoners wake up
@@ALGOAI01 he is very clearly singing this from an us vs. them perspective. It's the old souls vs. All these new world liberals.
@ACoupleStoners he is very clearly singing this for all of us that work too hard, get taxed 40 percent and get nothing for it.
I've been binge-watching your channel. And what might surprise you is that I'm a 62-year-old white woman from the burbs. You guys crack me up. And you prove how much we actually have in common-not all divided up based on our color, gender, age, etc. What unites us is if we have common beliefs, no matter the other stuff.
From Virginia he's just a person no he's a Farmer!!. No record label. Protect this man at all costs!! He speaks for all working Americans!!❤
He speaks for the working class all over the world, god bless this man
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I live in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and this young man is the salt of the earth, the real deal. We are so proud of him here.
He is not a farmer. And his name is Chris, his grandfather was named Oliver Anthony, it's a tribute to him. Research people
From VA as well. pretty close to me. Loving the meaning behind the song!
Out of the ten richest counties in the US five are around DC. Four in Virginia and one in Maryland. That tells me our public servants are living much better that the rest of our country. We’ve been sold out to foreign countries and corporations. Enough is enough.
They’re not that much richer tbh.
Yeah people are always talking about rich business men but I care waaay more about rich politicians that became crazy wealthy while they are supposedly career public servants.
And northern Virginia and around DC is democrat strong.
@@Olivia-bl8ez all multi-millionaires from a $187,000 a year salary. The fact is, and the hard truth is, no is going to stop it. America is soon to be a 3rd world economy and we're watching it unfold.
@@MultiWarbirdthen you must be one of them lol
"I wish politicians would look out for miners, and not just minors on a island somewhere". That line is gold
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks that line is pure POETRY!
English teacher here and noticed your confusion as to the spelling. Miners are the guys who look for coal, minors are the kids. It doesn't matter, but hoping one day it will matter again!
Yeah, he's talking about bitcoin miners, I believe. FTX
Well, Politicians didnt lookout for the minors Epstein island either, or they wouldnt have sealed and hidden away the list of elites in Epsteins black book.
@@gamingnoob3190😂
First time I heard this song I cried. We're small business owners who worked from morning till night every day...only to have everything we sacrificed for taken in the name of taxes and fairness. Our health insurance went from $300 a month to $1650 with less coverage. And our taxes and fee's were increased constantly.
They don't want us to survive anymore. Corporations get all the benefits and protection from the people we voted into office.
This song gets me every single time I hear it. It reaches into you body, soul, and mind and just brings you to your knees.
I am so incredibly sorry to hear this...God help us all.😢
try to be strong. I truly feel for you
Reality !
And the nations debt still goes up and up
I am all teared up... And i am not even American, I am Greek living in the Netherlands, this guy touched my soul, we are also selling our souls in this part of the world. Great song, GREAT VOICE...
Word my brother.
i'm a Brit and this speaks to me too. we all have our own versions of the rich men north of richmond and were all being betrayed.
Another British /English man here and I agree with everything the first British man wrote ...
Bless you 😊
There's something about this song that has that effect on everyone.
There were hundreds of iconic anti Vietnam war (protest) songs of the 60’s and 70’s. Now we have the first New World Order Protest anthem!!! 🌟 Thank you Oliver Anthony!
I hope we have a rock revival. I respect this guy but I’m a rock guy
New World Order Protest songs...I like that.
I love it! Woody Guthrie for 2023!
Instead of taking aim at our capitalist overlords (billionaires), he calls out people on welfare. So it’s all poor people’s fault? This song is so dumb and it’s sadly predictable that a certain portion of the population will just eat it up
AMEN AND GOD BLESS YOU
I’m so glad our Appalachian culture is finally getting the recognition it deserves
Wasn't Miss Dolly Parton from the Appalachian mountains?
@livinglife4835 yes, but she had to step out of her bluegrass roots and do pop country to get anywhere. Don't get me wrong, I love her pop country, it's just nice to see bluegrass getting some mainstream respect.
I hope this brings a change to Nashville and the California pop bs is permanently excised from county music
I gave up on country music when cmt started allowing bs like without me in there shows .
Farmville Va is outside of Richmond. Much love and respect to a local guy!!
properly pronounced App-Uh-Latch-Uhn Culture at that!
Love y'alls reaction as soon as he started singing. You knew it was about to get real.
His song calls to the world, not just the USA
Exactly❤
Exactly! All politicians and the top1% concluded with each others. It has always been this way but now it is far worse because now they want to control everything with AI.
From Australia, Amen to that.
China here，speak for all common folks
F that get your own stuff
DC is north of Richmond. This song made me feel it, every freaking note.
As a richmonder, he’s def talking about DC I think. It’s a straight drive to DC from Richmond and there isn’t much between. Just suburbs for people working in DC.
I 110% assure you he is talking about politicians in D.C
Correct, on his page, his comment is pinned under the vid saying that it is talking about the politicians.
He's absolutely talking about DC
@@frxsted2457yep
This man might have just single-handedly UNITED this Country! Well done sir! Well done! 👏👏👏
FUCK that noise, hilljack.
Through pandering. Imagine getting chills from something like this. 😂
@@bobhs1605 you must enjoy being ruled by the elite. Not me! Give me Liberty or give me death!
"Oliver Anthony really does punch down on the poor.
The lives of ordinary working people are being torn apart by the rich, he laments, but we can fix it if we cut welfare - and taxes too. Listening to the lyrics in that context, I came to understand why the song had gone viral among rightwing figures in the US. It’s a classic example of the divisive narrative that bosses have used to pit worker against worker since the days of Joe Hill. If the poor are fighting one another over racial hierarchy or cultural grievance, their anger will be directed away from the people responsible for their plight - the rich who exploit those in work and abandon those in need." Billy Bragg 2023
Y'all saying this song is racial or " fat phobic " are the true problem.
My Dad hated his job, but he worked his ass off to support a wife, mother, and four children.
"There goes my hero."
"He's ordinary."
Didn't know what this really meant, unfortunately, until I lost my Dad.
"There goes my hero."
"He's ordinary."
Didn't really understand this, unfortunately, until I lost my Dad.
We'd all be happy to do the same. Technology has made most jobs easier, but many of us still work our asses off. The real difference isn't in the amount of effort, but in the relative pay.
Your father could afford to support a family with his job. I don't know a single soul below the age of 50 that has only one job right now, that doesn't also have 1 or 2 roommates that they have to live with to afford the rent in a two bedroom apartment.
If only it was so simple these days. It has become so difficult to afford a family with only one source of income. Sounds like he was a great man, in my youth my father wasn't around as much as he wishes he could have been but he worked so hard to allow us to be together and give us what he could.
Amazing how this guy was truly discovered and Rich saw him and asked him to come on his tour.... NATURAL talent..... I'm glad
I think you meant “undiscovered” but everyone gets your point. So why am I even saying anything? Idk. Im bored I guess. Anyway, carry on
Deer stand in background... LEGEND ALREADY
HELL YEAH!
This guy doesn't need Nashville.... Nashville needs him!
He's an off grid farmer and just joined twitter recently. But 3 of his songs as of last night are the top 10 of itunes. This song is now known as the anthem to the working class.
I am bawling my eyes out right now
HE IS SINGING FOR EVERY ONE OF US BEING HURT BY OUR OWN DAMN COUNTRY! We need to unite!
I completely agree. We have to get aimed in the same direction, at the root of the problem. There are just a tiny group of people ruining everything for everyone else. Once people get on the same page that governments are just violent criminal gangs who extort and rob people for their own benefit, stop pointing fingers at each other, and instead point at those who are really wrecking everything, then the game is over.
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Bro I’m a Romanian living in my home country and this hits me deep. Your country and it’s politics have a really far reach. We all need to stand up to this divide and conquer mentality. ❤️
We need Administrative change...
A year later, Oliver’s song still resonates with me.
I was thinking about him today, and been listening to this song on youtube. Still makes me tear up. Fortunately I made past living hand to mouth, but that first decade was an struggle of barely getting by. I remember coming out to the parking lot after waitressing over 8 hours trying to make rent, and seeing a flat tire on my car and just breaking down in tears. Supposedly this month marks a year since this song came out.
The vibrations for me seem to be only getting louder
This song isn't just for America... it's for the world. Relatable on every account
He is viral now - he just sang live for the first time ever in a Richmond farmers market
The crowd was singing along. This man is the original. Untouched by any label or promoter, just pure raw emotion
NC farmer market. Right over the boarder of VA and NC. I only know because I live north of Richmond and the Outer banks in the summer😂
His first time with that many people, before he sang, he made like a speech, and was saying how back in June he played there and there was about 20 people, and now hes playing and theres 6000 and how if he can do it then we can, and then he read out of the bible!
He should stay away from the money handlers, they'll have him wearing a cowboy hat and singing about partying everyday in a pick up truck with a girl in cut off jean shorts. This song is promoting itself with its simple truths, and people everywhere know it. The New World Order is set to take control of every aspect of your life. I'm 70 years old and will not live to see it, but my children and grandchildren will. Something needs to change and quickly.
@@allanfranklin9615 He has apparently turned down offers that have been made so far. Hope he sticks to his guns.
As a black person, this brought tears to my eyes. I related a lot to it. You got a fan for life Anthony 💯🔥
It brought tears to my eyes too, Reggie. Much love to you in oneness, Brother🙏🏻❤️🕊
Why do Americans say their colour before a comment?
I'm genuinely asking.
I thought I was alone on that one...
O buddy he is singing for you too! ❤ he is singing for all of us ❤
I'm Portuguese and I can relate to what he is singing, I think most people around the world, if they listen the song, they will feel the same way. Very few rich man control the world now and although the countries in Europe have a lot of political partys to vote for ( Communist, Socialist, Christian Democrat, Royalist, Green, Liberal, Anarchist, Nationalist Patriotic, etc.), they are in the rich man pocket. Our clown president is going around now in ex-Portuguese Africa, preaching the war in Ukraine so the rich man north of Richmond (Virginia) can make billions of dollares. Pray my dear, pray.
This song still brings a tear to my eye every time.
Guys, Imm an Iraqi living in Zimbabwe and this song resonates with all of us. Rich men north of Richmond have global reach. We all the same ! Much love !
There is a ruling class in every country. Everyone else is some varient of slave to them.
Exactly 💯 WE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD 🎉🎉🎉
Yes, peace be with you,it's truly an amazing time watching the "people of the world" unite🙏🏼🙏🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏿
Unite the world!!🎉. The elite go see your maker. Let's see how you fare. The people are speaking❤
Lord Jesus is coming! He will be a JUST FATHER!
as of right now, Oliver Anthony has 14 of the top 50 songs on iTunes, thanks to guys like you!
right now he has 1-3!
@@NJVL I think he meant 4 instead of 14.
Thx for checking out this song guys, I’ve can’t stop listening to it and seeing peoples reactions, it’s really resonating with people all over the world
I would love to find an overseas reaction.
Me too. I have watched a ton of them.
@@sydneysomer9958I've been doing the same. It's driving my wife crazy
@zoomer824 read the comments on the @radiowv video
It’s funny. Inbred rednecks think people give two $hits what they think of them.
This song isn’t doing anything worldwide. It’s just more talking points that get idiots to spend money.
The conservative right just looooooves the idiots.
Cha, Ching!
I love the fact he refused an 8 million dollar record deal. Did not sale his soul to do what the rich man says. Bless this man
I taught high school English for 35 years and it's refreshing and encouraging to see young men have thoughtful and intellectual conversations about today's issues.
I often wonder what my high school English teacher Mr. Lundquist would think about today's current political environment. He was my favorite teacher because he taught us more about life than just book learning. You know, how to think. Not what to think.
We've gotten to watch 4 men fall in love with their country. It's been fantastic.
The guys don't know where Richmond is located. Apparently they didn't pay attention in high school history class.
Yeah I guess, Asking where is Richmond, who was this song made for , made me think of ignorance beyond belief.
Absolutely!
This is the kind of folk/country music I appreciate. The working man's blues. Not that truck-driving, buy shorty a drink finger-snapping commercial pop stuff.
What happened to rap music is the same thing that happened to country music.
Back in the 90's and even 2000's when there was actually good rap has been replaced with absolutely garbage which is what is popular. Same with country music. The good stuff gets covered up with all the crappy garbage over produces trash gets pushed to the front
@@Kolossus_it’s a part of the agenda
I can relate to this.. rap fell off after like the 2000s.. with only a minority keeping it as it was before.. you make valid points.@@Kolossus_
Exactly. This is more than country. This is the common man blues. Hits you in the heart
Us truly country folks call them and that "new age Country" RINESTONE COWBOY WANNABES!
He’s singing for all of us! We need to unite and vote all the crooks out!!!
The illusion that voting is the solution is nothing but depravity searching to cope. They will never allow themselves to be voted out.
you cant vote your way out of tyranny.
I wish that were the case. But sadly I fear the fix is in. The combination of corruption, uneducated Americans, and a corrupt media will ensure this problem continues.
@@YankeeMugwump Except it is the "educated" Americans and other countries elites around that world, including the mainstream media, that are entrenching themselves into a ruling class and creating the conditions Oliver is talking about.
Sounds like Anti-capitalism.
Love how you guys play all kinds of music. I normally don’t listen to something like this but he has a message and an ole country soulful voice.
This is the new anthem for “We The People!” It’s not for a specific side, Republican or Democrat. It’s for all of us who are FED UP with our government!! United we stand divided we fall.
Shout out from Canada, this hits here too
Facts
parasitic gvmt working for the global elites raging war in all ways possible against us and between us, down to your very own body, children, spirit
It's absolutely for a specific side, mostly the right. Not everyone agrees with this non-sense. Some of us are happy for our tax dollars to be used to help the less fortunate. Why would he call out the least fortunate people on welfare when there are plenty of fat cats milking the country illegally for far more than any welfare recipient.
@@yonasgiant the name of the song is literally Rich Men North Of Richmond... what don't you understand?
It's the most powerful song I've heard in a very long time. It's raw, authentic, real and heartfelt. It hits your soul directly if you have one. I cried the first time i heard it and I still get goosebumps.
His story is inspirational. He struggled with alcohol and depression when he fell to his knees and prayed to God. God took it all away.
A local radio station recorded this and posted it. He was so surprised when so many people resonated.
Polo tv posted him at the farmers market today about 2 hours ago. Standing room only and everyone was singing along.
How long before the Demonic liberal media does everything it can to destroy him??
May God bless this man, he’s already touched millions by his grace. We needed this in these difficult times.
Number 1 on iTunes in 3 days over 6 million views. This dude is the real deal...
7.4 million views
Probably tik tok the reason
@@bittrness 7.5 million views
He owns 16% of the top 100 right now.
And RUclips still not letting his video trend!
Love these videos - thanks for sharing your experiences. it is a refreshing reminder to keep and open mind!
I’m from the uk I felt every word .This is a song is for the working classes every where in the west, his voice is so beautiful real/raw honest talent telling the truth.
I' m from Germany. You are right.
@@nicolahuebscher4440all of us are pawns for the elite. Doesn’t matter what country you’re from. We’re all tired.
Word this goes for the whole worker population not just the west, the children working in sweatshops in asia for western companies could resonate with this song too if they could speak english shit same for africa, this the global effect of the system (corrupt governments x capitalism)
You just gotta change the word "north" to "east" and "dollar" to "pound" and the song becomes about the UK government.
If anything, this song is for all the people who vote for this stuff then whine about it later. yall did this to yourselves.
This song brings me to tears every time! We the people are ALL in this together. We are more alike than we are different. It’s time to start acting like it! ✌️🇺🇸
Amen! Hallelujah. It's time.
America The Beautiful!! ❤♥️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
We are different though, there's us and there's the elite, one wants the other enslaved!
100% I hope so
If you got an American flag in your comment calling for everyone to do nothing, you either didn’t understand or you’re being paid by someone north of Richmond to throw water on the fire
I’m a South Korean American immigrant and the song hits my soul deeply. I’m glad many of us Americans with different color, culture and background can resonate with a song written from a man’s heart.
You’re either South Korean or American.
Which is it?!?
@@CongressSux1776you’re pathetic
@@CongressSux1776not true . You are an American jack***.
@@CongressSux1776why can't he be both?
@CongressSux1776 you're kidding right? You become an American when you come here. I'm guessing you're one of those people who yell "go back to where you came from" when you're angry. Unless you're native American, you really can't talk regarding that.
Powerful song, dude on the right was feelin it look at his brow furrow, dude 2nd from left was just wincing. You can tell they were digging it and understood the words. Bravo, gents...
I love his story. When he wrote this song, he was 30 days sober from drinking, and he prayed with all his soul, for God to give him a purpose. Apparently God answered him. PRAISE BE TO JESUS CHRIST,!!!! HALLELUJAH
Wow!
Amen
@@teardrop54 , I read this comment and before I opened replies, I said to myself exactly your comment.
Adds more power to the performance. Thanks for the background. 👏 👏
Hallelujah, Amen!
There are two kinds of country music; you've got "my girl left with the dog, the beer's run out, and my truck broke down", and then there's REAL country music like this.
This is Appalachian music.
I think it’s more folk music than country music.
He's an off grid farmer on 90 acres with his 3 dogs! Amazing overnight sensation ballad for the working man!
Makes me love this man even more.
How can you be off the grid with 90 acres?
@@slipstreammonkey Off Grid simply means self sufficient. Well water, solar, wind or generator for power. Usually a garden and some livestock. You can do it on 2 acres, 5 10 or 90!
@@littlewing4299 cool, so my power gets shut off and suddenly I'm cool cause I live off the grid. It's bogus, he worked in a factory and he'll stay in a factory.
@@slipstreammonkey What? Off Grid pertains to his home and land lifestyle choice, which has nothing to do with where he works. I guess he will work in the factory if he needs to until he doesn't have to. Maybe he will make bank off his music. Who knows? Why does it bother you?
In all my life I've never heard a song move people like this before...what can you say but wow !
this song unites us in the exact way the "rich men north of richmond" want to divide us. see what we can accomplish when we stop fighting each other and turn our gaze to the rich men north of richmond.
Please stop. Nonsense.
@@MrsLegitParttwo tell me you worship the government without telling me you worship the government...
Bro they are probably aliens at this point. I don't see why else they would intentionally be destroying the human race
@@MrsLegitParttwo what nonsense? Do clarify 😆
@@newenglandtraditionalist exactly. Education missed her, I'm guessing. Same kind of person who won't talk that in a Cuban neighborhood.
My mans unwittingly became the voice of a nation!
Worldwide! People from all over are hitting this and loving it.
Seriously.. this is the song we needed for a long time.
This is what scares the hell out of the people on Wallstreet and in Washington.
100% They don’t actually control anything
They only control the ones who will put on a mask, that their poison shot and close down their business while their meager wealth is redistributed to the top .0000001%. @@Oilman6969
They don't want the men of America uniting and fighting back against them, so they divide and down trodden you all to not unite or have the energy and finances to. But at the end of the day, if a farmer can't sell their food, they will just trade it for goods they need and skip the currency issues.
Maybe but they're not scared enough! Yet.
Love yalls reactions! I'm a 40 yr old Latino in los Angeles this song hits hard for everyone not just in America but the world! We the last ones standing to make a difference as a whole! We as in the humans of earth, we are all one in this together in this insane world/new world order. Our skin colors makes us stronger, not separate! As kids we are all friends because it's just spirits with spirits. These powers that think they be made us hate each other. United we stand, divided we fall. We are all struggling together from dark forces that have created whats going on for another RESET. The Internet was for "THEM" too to control us but now the interwebs is uniting ppls while the main stream media keepa pushing its agendas of hate and division
Look up & listen to
@chase Oliver For President
Oliver For President
no fluff, no flashy splashy visual effects
Just pure soul poetry........
This is what country music used to sound like
@@TawnyaDickerson-hp9guthis sounds a lot more folk than it sounds country. Nothing about girls and pickup trucks
@@CharlieBravoTango that’s what I mean folk
Country used to tell stories of hardships and heartbreaks and a boy named sue
@@CharlieBravoTangonot all country songs are about "girls beer and tractors"
He's singing about the plight of young men in this country, black, white, and brown. Historically high rates of suicide, homelessness, drug and alcohol related deaths, lowering levels of education, lowering life expectancy, lowering standards of living, the #1 victims of violent crime and murder, and the most incarcerated demographic in the country.
Fax fax fax
It would be great if men of all races, creeds, and backgrounds would band together instead of letting the elites put us against each other. Those in power don't want strong men. Strong men can remove those elites from power.
Theme song for the new Cultural Revolution and National Revival coming in the USA 🙏🇺🇸🙏 We The People Have had enough of the BS from the ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’
Not just the US.... reading comments from Sweden, UK, Germany, Canada, etc. That is a WOW factor for a song to speak on behalf a whole class of good, hard working people across the globe.
there's no plight, most of you live a very easy life.
This guy wrote and sang a song that is resonating globally.
I came here to say exactly that... it may be an American song and it may be a folk song...but it's speaking the Truth to every single country on this planet. It represents every single citizen on this Earth that has felt the exact same sentiment in the exact same way he sang it.
Fed TF Up Beyond Belief is the vibe from this song...
Ready to Shut Shit Down is the tone of his voice.
I LOVE IT.
I hope that he stays independent... Hellyweird is corruptible and he needs no change from any part of the "SIN-dust-ry".
Yes those "rich men" are all over the world, and working together to keep rest of us down.
This song is maybe profound if you're a 12 year old
@@hornyconvict I literally don't see what all these clowns see in this song lmfao. Its literally so fucking basic, nothing about it is complex or hard to understand. Just goes to show how you need to really dumb something down for people to understand. Very on brand for the people of Appalachia.
The people that want to rule the world with a one world govt are attacking all of us.
AMAZING VOICE & HE HAS DONE IT ON HIS ON!!
This man has quickly become a hero to all of us in the Appalachia. This ain’t country. This right here is Appalachian folk. God Bless Christopher and Oliver❤️
A hero for all of us
True - this is Appalachian heart and soul personified in a genuine real dude 🥲 we all needed Oliver to show up - and BOY did he 🔥🙏😭
I live in the smokies and I blare this song atleast once a day.
I'm an Appalachian girl ❤
You’re absolutely right.
I’m 71. My father was born in Kentucky in 1896. When I was little he would not listen to what they called country music on the radio, called it crap. He had a bunch of old 95 rpm lacquer records with serious old times bluegrass and jug band music. Closest thing I know of that most people would recognize is the music in the movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou”.
We all need to come together and get these crooks out of control. A nation divided can not stand!!!
Nobody has the guts.
Problem is we disagree on who the crooks are.
That's what the elitist commies are counting on
@@JJJOOSSHHHThat remains to be seen. There's only one way to remove a corrupt system, and it would mean the lives of millions of people will be forever changed if not lost. Most people recognize that. History shows there will be a breaking point.
deep down everyone knows who the "chosen" people are@@JJamahJamerson
You can hear the pain in his voice. This song is coming from the soul. You can tell. This is Appalachian mountain music right here.
Man you guys are my kind of people, open mind and willing to expand your pallet. Keep doing this great work yall doing. Im truly enjoying your videos
Latest statement by Oliver(Chris) Anthony---It's been difficult as I browse through the 50,000+ messages and emails I've received in the last week. The stories that have been shared paint a brutally honest picture. Suicide, addiction, unemployment, anxiety and depression, hopelessness and the list goes on.
Im sitting in such a weird place in my life right now. I never wanted to be a full time musician, much less sit at the top of the iTunes charts. Draven from RadioWv and I filmed these tunes on my land with the hope that it may hit 300k views. I still don't quite believe what has went on since we uploaded that. It's just strange to me.
People in the music industry give me blank stares when I brush off 8 million dollar offers. I don't want 6 tour buses, 15 tractor trailers and a jet. I don't want to play stadium shows, I don't want to be in the spotlight. I wrote the music I wrote because I was suffering with mental health and depression. These songs have connected with millions of people on such a deep level because they're being sung by someone feeling the words in the very moment they were being sung. No editing, no agent, no bullshit. Just some idiot and his guitar. The style of music that we should have never gotten away from in the first place.
So that being said, I have never taken the time to tell you who I actually am. Here's a formal introduction:
My legal name is Christopher Anthony Lunsford. My grandfather was Oliver Anthony, and "Oliver Anthony Music" is a dedication not only to him, but 1930's Appalachia where he was born and raised. Dirt floors, seven kids, hard times. At this point, I'll gladly go by Oliver because everyone knows me as such. But my friends and family still call me Chris. You can decide for yourself, either is fine.
In 2010, I dropped out of high school at age 17. I have a GED from Spruce Pine, NC. I worked multiple plant jobs in Western NC, my last being at the paper mill in McDowell county. I worked 3rd shift, 6 days a week for $14.50 an hour in a living hell. In 2013, I had a bad fall at work and fractured my skull. It forced me to move back home to Virginia. Due to complications from the injury, it took me 6 months or so before I could work again.
From 2014 until just a few days ago, I've worked outside sales in the industrial manufacturing world. My job has taken me all over Virginia and into the Carolinas, getting to know tens of thousands of other blue collar workers on job sites and in factories. Ive spent all day, everyday, for the last 10 years hearing the same story. People are SO damn tired of being neglected, divided and manipulated.
In 2019, I paid $97,500 for the property and still owe about $60,000 on it. I am living in a 27' camper with a tarp on the roof that I got off of craigslist for $750.
There's nothing special about me. I'm not a good musician, I'm not a very good person. I've spent the last 5 years struggling with mental health and using alcohol to drown it. I am sad to see the world in the state it's in, with everyone fighting with each other. I have spent many nights feeling hopeless, that the greatest country on Earth is quickly fading away.
That being said, I HATE the way the Internet has divided all of us. The Internet is a parasite, that infects the minds of humans and has their way with them. Hours wasted, goals forgotten, loved ones sitting in houses with each other distracted all day by technology made by the hands of other poor souls in sweat shops in a foreign land.
When is enough, enough? When are we going to fight for what is right again? MILLIONS have died protecting the liberties we have. Freedom of speech is such a precious gift. Never in world history has the world had the freedom it currently does. Don't let them take it away from you.
Just like those once wandering in the desert, we have lost our way from God and have let false idols distract us and divide us. It's a damn shame.
Where was this posted?
I caught it on RadioWV
way to go man . ❤from richmond
HUMBLE!! EXTREMELY HUMBLE!! 👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏💙💙💙
Amen! I hope he knows Christ! Sounds like it!
"Wish piloliticians would look out for miners and not just minors on an island somewhere." 🔥 💯 😮
Is that how the lyric went?
@@MR-backupyep.
I'm a white man in the hills of Tennessee and I love you guys. Fist bump to you all. Don't let the politicians divide us. Let's unite and take this country back. Don't believe them most of us aren't racist black and white. Love you guys in Tennessee
23 year old black man from Texas, and I stand right beside you brother. We have way more in common together, then with the rich men north of Richmond.
ME TOO!!!!!!@@rondo_with_it5946
So true. White man here in Canada (originally from Germany). Those guys put a smile on my face. People are so lethargic/inactive (especially in Canada) hopefully we can unite one day and strive for better.
Gonna have to address the police if we don’t want to be divided!!
We all need to unite
And leave the Government out of it
This song hits so hard for all of us because it is all of us.
That line “wish politicians would look out for miners, not just minors on an island somewhere” is absolute 🔥🔥 I think it means that they should care about the coal miners (and other poor hardworking folks) and not just be looking at teenage girls (minors) on a private island of a rich man (Jeffrey Epstein and the many politicians who he flew in to party there with underage girls). Wow 💣
I had the same thought, that was a deep subliminal hit that caught fire 🔥
Yeah it was pretty obvious what he meant lol
Great line and so true. Powerful and wealthy elites flying all over exploiting underage girls, versus worrying about hard working Americans.
The line about wishing the government care more about minors and not just on that island is cold as hell. Epstien Island
It’s a double entendre. Wishing politicians cared about minors, not just minors in the face of the media but the child miners on the islands that have child labor mining precious metals and resources.
The first is miners (like coal etc.) the second is minors and refers to Epstein island where many of those rich men went!!!
@@christopheryou5040I think it could have a couple meanings, miners as in coal miners, then minors on island somewhere is the second one referring to Epstein Island and all the politicians ….Coal mining is fading out in Appalachia and a lot of small towns that depended on it are dying off because there’s nothing here, not much here but coal mining, logging and oil and natural gas production
@@BradCross1982exactly! Miners/minors!
the fist is miners (as in coal miners) and the second is minors (as is Epsteins island minors)
I'm in Britain, i hear and feel this song through my core. it's touching the whole world .I listened yesterday for the first time i think the words are now within ,so relevant. ❤
Love from across the waters in Canada to you my English brother.
If this song hit you like it hit me, then I know I'm not alone out here.
Peace my friend
Damn right!
You guys have been going through it longer than us, I can't believe the stories I see coming out of Britain and what you have to put up with.
The middle class and everyday people around the world our being used and abused. We all need to let our voices be heard.
This song hits home. Right where the Heart is!
He's singing for ALL of us! God bless this man and God bless all!
My girlfriend's kid sent me this song last week. He's not even 20, but he's been working a few years now and feels the pain already. I'm an old dog at 46 and feel bad he feels that way already. It's a damn shame...
It is his generation that will be robbed more than any other before his in America. The working middle class and working poor have been systematically destroyed by the corrupt monetary policy of the democrats and the neo cons ( all who detest MAGA). Banks get bailed out when their gambling doesn't pay. NAZIs in Ukraine get trillions to pay for their people's pensions and to launder for the political campaigns of democrats and neo cons. Meanwhile we the people of America get screwed. We need a thousand more songs and a thousand more singers writing songs about this situation. The first thing the godless Marxists sought to destroy was art. Let's we the people take it back. It is more powerful than standing armies.
He is 30 some
Old dog at 46? Man No, you just continue to support that young man with your experiences and advice! I can guarantee that Oliver Anthony is the product of someone in his life who took the time to share with him what it was like what it is like and what it will be like. Better times are just ahead! The American people have seen some difficult situations in the past and WE will overcome!
This song hit the group so hard they barely interrupted. Respect.
😂😂😂😂😂
I'm sure they just "react" to the viral stuff for clicks and views..
Thanks for covering this! True words for a torturous government!
I think this went #1 after 3 days. He performed today and had thousands show up all singing along with him. John Rich has offered to produce an album!
I'm not a country music fan, but this song just hits on another level. It's exactly how I feel, and how I know so many other Americans feel as well. I worked around the farm all day today (my only day off), trying to get caught up on things. Now I gotta go to bed and wake up tomorrow and bust my ass for the next 6 days so corrupt uncle Sam can take half of what I kill myself to earn. It ain't right what's happening in our country anymore. We kill ourselves to make a living just to survive, then the govt takes half, and then tries to pit us against one another in the meanwhile. Things need to change in this country, I'm sick of having my govt take my money, then calling me a racist in the meantime just because I'm white. As Oliver says, "it's a damn shame, what the world's become." We as Americans need to quit all the damn bickering, unite as one, and love each other and change this country back into what it was intended to be, a nation for the people, by the people. God bless you, gentlemen, and God bless our fallen nation 🇺🇸
Amen Alpha! God bless you. And you and we all have our prayers that we can own our lives one day soon!
This is more a Folk song than a Country song.
Half the country doesn't vote to restore the country. They vote for those who want to dismantle it, and rebuild it into a totalitarian nightmare. I don't know if is possible to unite at this point
🙏🇺🇸
You are exactly right. If everyone would stop listening to what THEY are saying and start banding together we could change the world. But people are selfish and the devil has a hold on the minds that believe all that garbage. Shut the black box off and open the good book. The s souls would be saved and lives would be changed and then Jesus could open the eyes of the blind. They are blind to the truth.
He posted this on his page, his name is Christopher Anthony Lunsford, Oliver Anthony was his grandfather's name and he's paying homage to him by singing under "Oliver Anthony music"
It's been difficult as I browse through the 50,000+ messages and emails I've received in the last week. The stories that have been shared paint a brutally honest picture. Suicide, addiction, unemployment, anxiety and depression, hopelessness and the list goes on.
Im sitting in such a weird place in my life right now. I never wanted to be a full time musician, much less sit at the top of the iTunes charts. Draven from RadioWv and I filmed these tunes on my land with the hope that it may hit 300k views. I still don't quite believe what has went on since we uploaded that. It's just strange to me.
People in the music industry give me blank stares when I brush off 8 million dollar offers. I don't want 6 tour buses, 15 tractor trailers and a jet. I don't want to play stadium shows, I don't want to be in the spotlight. I wrote the music I wrote because I was suffering with mental health and depression. These songs have connected with millions of people on such a deep level because they're being sung by someone feeling the words in the very moment they were being sung. No editing, no agent, no bullshit. Just some idiot and his guitar. The style of music that we should have never gotten away from in the first place.
So that being said, I have never taken the time to tell you who I actually am. Here's a formal introduction:
My legal name is Christopher Anthony Lunsford. My grandfather was Oliver Anthony, and "Oliver Anthony Music" is a dedication not only to him, but 1930's Appalachia where he was born and raised. Dirt floors, seven kids, hard times. At this point, I'll gladly go by Oliver because everyone knows me as such. But my friends and family still call me Chris. You can decide for yourself, either is fine.
In 2010, I dropped out of high school at age 17. I have a GED from Spruce Pine, NC. I worked multiple plant jobs in Western NC, my last being at the paper mill in McDowell county. I worked 3rd shift, 6 days a week for $14.50 an hour in a living hell. In 2013, I had a bad fall at work and fractured my skull. It forced me to move back home to Virginia. Due to complications from the injury, it took me 6 months or so before I could work again.
From 2014 until just a few days ago, I've worked outside sales in the industrial manufacturing world. My job has taken me all over Virginia and into the Carolinas, getting to know tens of thousands of other blue collar workers on job sites and in factories. Ive spent all day, everyday, for the last 10 years hearing the same story. People are SO damn tired of being neglected, divided and manipulated.
In 2019, I paid $97,500 for the property and still owe about $60,000 on it. I am living in a 27' camper with a tarp on the roof that I got off of craigslist for $750.
There's nothing special about me. I'm not a good musician, I'm not a very good person. I've spent the last 5 years struggling with mental health and using alcohol to drown it. I am sad to see the world in the state it's in, with everyone fighting with each other. I have spent many nights feeling hopeless, that the greatest country on Earth is quickly fading away.
That being said, I HATE the way the Internet has divided all of us. The Internet is a parasite, that infects the minds of humans and has their way with them. Hours wasted, goals forgotten, loved ones sitting in houses with each other distracted all day by technology made by the hands of other poor souls in sweat shops in a foreign land.
When is enough, enough? When are we going to fight for what is right again? MILLIONS have died protecting the liberties we have. Freedom of speech is such a precious gift. Never in world history has the world had the freedom it currently does. Don't let them take it away from you.
Just like those once wandering in the desert, we have lost our way from God and have let false idols distract us and divide us. It's a damn shame.
Thanks for sharing. I wouldn't have seen it otherwise ❤
Man! I resonate with everything said here! I had to fight crying. God bless you!!
Thanks for posting. I was just going to search his history.
Wow, he’s spot on.
❤
This is a song for everyone.
Every man.
Every woman.
No matter your skin color.
No matter your religion.
No matter your sexual preference.
Red or blue, they don’t care about you, we have to take care of ourselves, and each other.
Regardless of what you believe they’ll never care for you.
You’re exactly right - he is speaking for ALL people.
@@jessicarogers6646 nope he's speaking for trumpanzee deplorable dimwits
Amen. I am Black. from New York City. And this song is the hardest bars in America right now. I am glad this is number one. Not Drake, Not Megan Thee Ugly Stallion. Not Ice Spice. Not kill this not kill that, buT good homemade music with instruments. God Bless America.
PS and I am not a Republican, I am just me.
@@dramedy1804 You are a great exception.
I’m not from the US. I’m English. This song resonates with me and many others over here because it’s message is fundamentally a universal calling. Even across thousands of miles of ocean we humans face the exact same problems and daily struggles. We need to look to bond with one another and reject the devisive attitudes spread by the higher rungs of society. It’s that simple. Look out for one another and love each other with all your heart. Stay blessed people and much love to you ❤
The ones that want to divide us want GLOBAL control - they going for the one world government…it will be the elites against everyone else. Yes, we must look out for each other. Thank you for your uplifting comment and much love back at ya! ❤️
Racism is a game played by the middle class, for the benefit of the wealthy, and it happens all over. The idea that somebody is more than another person by rote, and not by experience or abiliity
It happens back even before the Civil War, but let that conflict set the benchmark:
Poor people fighting for the benefit of the rich, over something they can't even afford, under the guise of "states rights," and the idea that "Y'all'll _never_ be high-class, _but at least ya ain't no _*_MINORITY!_* Now *GET OUT THERE* and *FIGHT FOR MY RIGHT TO OWN A HUMAN BEING!!!"*
We look at one another, are too happy to go at one another's throats, and the upper class isn't just happy to let us do it, they foster it to keep us preoccupied so we aren't watching _them._
Love from New York, where the rich get richer and poor get poorer, every day.
@SamBANKmanHeeb Yes he is - you don't need to be white Anglo-Saxon to be English. Isn't that a somewhat racist comment you just posted? Careful.....
Start with not arresting individuals for speaking their minds and arresting your hundreds of rapists who hide behind their religion.
It warms my Heart that young Black men can appreciate Country Music, even though my skin color is different from yours........WE are the Same God Bless You Guy's!!!!
It's certain types of Country (folk). It's a song about struggle, exploitation. These things hit with minority groups hard. As they would say. They've been on that shit.
Listen to 2Pac. Majority of his songs are about Liberations and Struggles. Often when he mentions crime, murder, gang activity. He is doing so in a condemning way.
2pac would have lyrics saying people shouldn't sell drugs, but they are forced to do so from circumstances. But saying he wishes there was another way.
80s-90s rap is very enlightening if you take in the lyrics with a open mind. I gotta say though. I think the 2000s rap onwards really screwed up.
@@MutualistSoc Absolutely right bro. I'm a middle aged white guy and I Loved 2 Pac. He always spoke Straight up. That's Why they had him killed. The powers that be (of ALL Colors, Creeds, National origins and Religions) didn't want Him starting a wildfire Against them that they Knew they couldn't put out. Once We The People, All Come together and take a stand against these Thug Criminals in Politics all over the globe, They WILL LOSE biggly and they know it. There is but a couple million of Them vs a few BILLION of Us. All it takes, is for ALL OF US, to learn how to Set Aside all this PETTY BULLSHIT they keep tryin to use to keep US DIVIDED Against Each Other so we won't come together against Them! This song, to me, shows how it's ALL of us going thru some kind of bullshit struggle that's All brought onto all of us by the Corrupt Elites and Politicians of this planet.
Well…it’s young black men who were largely responsible for the origins of what is now called country music…as a category it was manufactured and marketed away from the blues, but it’s base is deeply familiar to them for sure.
I was sitting in traffic listening to brothers Osborne the other day. A black fella in the car next to me rolled down his window and yelled to get my attention. Asked if that was country music - why yes it is I said. He replied You converted me, I'm all over that shit! Tipped his blunt and drove off. Hehe... Quite the unexpected reaction - loved it. We bridged that cultural gap a bit.❤
God made one race. This song unites. Maybe a song like this will help people see through the smoke BS that powers to be use to divide us to reach their agendas
Y’all give me hope for this country. As a combat vet having to watch this country eating itself alive and fighting over things just because the government tells them it’s for the best or that they should be angry about it. They’ve convinced people it’s ok to suppress other peoples rights because they don’t agree with you. Thank you for being so humble, upfront, and honest. We need more people to realize what’s really going on so we can stop it.
"And not the just the minors on another island somewhere" Is so underrated, you all missed it
Double entendre? Minors somewhere, but also MINERS somewhere 💰
They completely missed that
Yes, and hopefully he isn’t “Epsteined “.
@@Bonetti.23he's talking about Epstein Island.
Saying saving the children being molested and also the West Virginia coal miners. That was WV biggest economy back in the day but bc of “going green” they took a huge hit and the people been feeling it ever since.
It is called bluegrass. A lot of us grew up listening to our granddaddy's pick guitar or banjo and make up songs about life. It is a way of life in Appalachia mountains.
Truth!!!
Amen❤❤❤❤
Yes!!
Bluegrass is more upbeat
True American history. Neat!
He turned down an $8,000,000.00 record deal. I have a lot of respect for that man.
Many others have sold their souls for way less.
Me too! They would shape and mold him. $8million is a lot for your soul and he has the hearts and souls of the world now.
I respect that a whole lot. Because to be honest? I know I wouldn't have had the same strength.
he wasnt trying to sex children
He just turned down 8 million temptions from the devil. He's sending a message. No money needed ... God bless 🙌
This isn't just country music it's music for our country. Hits you deep in your soul.
You "feel this song in your heart" because it comes from his heart and soul. You can feel it. He is honest and truthful.
Authenticity. It is a glass of cool sweet water in the desert of manufactured, sugar coated garbage.
Don't rip glucose. Rip on sucrose lol
Not only that , it’s a problem we all feel so much everyday .. the people who have remained in power have destroyed we the people. And everything we hold dear. It is a damn shame.
Love it Chris!
“For people like me and you” 🤘😎🤘 Spot on assessment good sir!!!
Edit: I was lucky enough to make it to his show today at Morris’s Farmers Market. Glad to see how well this hit you guys!
That was unreal for a farmers market
That type of guitar is called a resonator. Typically seen in bluegrass and traditional blues.
Yep and Gretsch better sign the guy now and get him more guitars.
looks exactly like the one my dad played back in the 70's . I called it a dobro ..Im probably spelling it wrong but it could be played like a guitar or slide. My dads was made in japan..I cant remmember the name of the company that made those..
@@hoochpooch6614 I think Dobro was originally a brand name that became synonymous with the resonator guitar. Kinda like Kleenex.
sign him and make him a rich man too, see how quickly he forgets the rich man norf of richmond
The guitar is a resonator, under the metal disc is an aluminum cone that acts like a mechanical amplifier. Dobro is a brand name like Gretsch, if the instrument has a round neck it’s played as a guitar, but a square neck is played with the instrument laying on the musician’s lap, using a slide and often using finger picks.
Shit is fire. This is why I love your family. When you see soul and passion, regardless if you like hat genre, you get it. You can't not like this. I would get upset! lol Not that that matters, but still.... good job, fam!
Seeing Brothers getting onboard Appalachia music is a sign we aren’t lost yet.🙏🏻
Once the poor white man figures out the poor black man is the brother instead of the enemy, and vice/versa, government is beat.
Did you just call them brothers
Brothers? Just call them black men dude
Then the whole point of his comment goes out the window. If he said men then the point they are black and are open to other genres of music doesn't hit the same. Everybody was thinking what he wrote or at least as it pertained to the people doing the reaction video. And there's nothing wrong with that. I would find it fucking hilarious if the dude who commented was black. Story of our current life. People getting offended by the treatment or portrayal of a certain demographic but that certain demographic could give two shits or a fuck. Like the Redskins changing their name to Commanders bc a couple white people were outraged. Same with Indians. I for one am offended by the name "Guardians" because it's fucking the worst name in sports barely edging out the "Commanders." Would you have corrected some guy who said these niggas if a black dude made the comment?
@@cronkingfellow Americans...
I'm not american, i dont live in the US, and i don't listen to country music that much..but somehow this song and the lyrics just hit me right in heart. the working class struggle, i guess we all feel the same.
Really? Raise the bar a bit. Plenty of really good "society screwed me" songs out there. This one isn't.
@@user-el2lw6iu4y as i've said, i'm not that familiar with country music..we dont really listen to american country or folk music here in Indonesia and I didn't even know how this song showed up on my YT recommendation..but i'm glad it did.
@@user-el2lw6iu4y This is not a "society screwed me" song, this is a "the system screwed me" as in the capitalist system.
@@DonHaka Sure sounds like he is targeting HIGH SOCIETY for his woes. Well, perhaps Russia will give this fellow and others of like mind a better option if in fact he is lashing out at capitalism. I'd love to evoke the love it or leave it thing. However, that retort has been the sole domain of right leaning folk in response to left leaning folk --when they were disillusioned with our system and it was never a logical retort to begin with. I truly support independent artists and there are plenty out there with good stuff. Anyway, the song is lacking for all the attention it is getting but that is how it goes in America. I will stick with Woody G. or Pete S. or Dylan or Johnny Paycheck for protest songs.
@@user-el2lw6iu4y Well what exactly is high society if not the wealthiest of the wealthy? The capitalist system only benefits the wealthy (i.e the capitalist class) and effectively oppresses the working class. I do however agree that the song itself is overrated, but if it's making people realize that we're all being fucked i dont complain.
This song resonates with almost EVERYONE!! Does not matter where you live, your politics, your ideology, your ethnicity, gender....nothing! Every American not part of the political and/or social elite are tired of those in power not looking out for our best interests, keeping us down, and enriching themselves off the blood, sweat, and tears of the common working person.
What comes from the heart touches the heart.
We all finally awakened to the madness when the select few in charge of our freedom and rights showed their true colors. Covid was eye opening.
@@usmanbarak2615
Everything is a test. From the human elites and the divine.
Live, Die, Repeat 👊🏼
@@usmanbarak2615 100%, although I would argue that it started to become clear with how the elites reacted to someone outside the establishment being elected President. They will do anything to maintain power and prevent their dirty laundry from being aired for all to see. But I agree, the pandemic was also a huge tipping point. What scares me, is just how many people were willing to both surrender their freedoms and to take them away from their neighbors.
I’m not trying to be racist, but it is really awesome and kind of hilarious to see blacks bickering about their favorite country artist. It’s amazing, I used to think this music was polarizing, and instead, especially all these years later, it’s actually unifying people. That’s exactly what we need. This is an excellent video!
No auto tune or snap track. This is real music.
I love hearing the imperfections in his voice when he sings. The little "cracks" when he's changing notes. Lots of bluegrass do it. But the music industry has ripped the soul out of music and make it 100% perfect. I like hearing the imperfections.
Example. Listen to Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon wheel.
Now listen to, Darius Rucker - Wagon Wheel.
100% Old Crows version you feel the emotions in his voice.