Oliver Anthony - Rich Men North Of Richmond (REACTION!)

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

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  • @1980bwc
    @1980bwc Год назад +16278

    Cant believe yall missed the "Miners instead of Minors on an island somewhere" line. That was the hardest line in the entire song.

    • @WikidRacer
      @WikidRacer Год назад +736

      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

    • @TheJoshestWhite
      @TheJoshestWhite Год назад +227

      They're west of Appalachia, it's still appreciated I think.
      -from Wyoming.

    • @Jwatty461
      @Jwatty461 Год назад +670

      I’m from Wyoming too. We want Trump back!

    • @DamonRoberson-f4n
      @DamonRoberson-f4n Год назад +162

      He has a video on RUclips he dropped right before he released this song explaining his thoughts on the youth .

    • @philipmurray9796
      @philipmurray9796 Год назад +1115

      Epstein Island Minors

  • @yorghofellas1970
    @yorghofellas1970 Год назад +823

    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...

    • @OldManRocketLeague
      @OldManRocketLeague Год назад +14

      Word my brother.

    • @ravenmasters2467
      @ravenmasters2467 Год назад +45

      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.

    • @joecresswell5466
      @joecresswell5466 Год назад +29

      Another British /English man here and I agree with everything the first British man wrote ...

    • @annamarie2754
      @annamarie2754 Год назад +9

      Bless you 😊

    • @davidguthrie5708
      @davidguthrie5708 Год назад +18

      There's something about this song that has that effect on everyone.

  • @dannysgirl1549
    @dannysgirl1549 Год назад +1632

    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.

    • @MultiWarbird
      @MultiWarbird Год назад +7

      They’re not that much richer tbh.

    • @Olivia-bl8ez
      @Olivia-bl8ez Год назад +97

      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.

    • @paulv4130
      @paulv4130 Год назад +53

      And northern Virginia and around DC is democrat strong.

    • @MoMoMyPup10
      @MoMoMyPup10 Год назад

      @@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.

    • @Dwightaroundyolips
      @Dwightaroundyolips Год назад +24

      ​@@MultiWarbirdthen you must be one of them lol

  • @mainwolfgaming9935
    @mainwolfgaming9935 7 месяцев назад +707

    This isn't country music, this is music for the Country!

    • @frankcastle1216
      @frankcastle1216 5 месяцев назад +9

      Damn right!

    • @GreyProtz
      @GreyProtz 5 месяцев назад +9

      Hell yeah

    • @SCHeadbanger_
      @SCHeadbanger_ 4 месяца назад +3

      100%

    • @leodavis2076
      @leodavis2076 4 месяца назад +3

      This isn't country music, this is folk music,,, Hard hitting folk music deep from the soul

    • @Clbynrod
      @Clbynrod 3 месяца назад +2

      That's how it's supposed to be

  • @GlennMcdonald-oo3pi
    @GlennMcdonald-oo3pi Год назад +1534

    Regardless of where you come from or color of your skin. Hes singing for all of us right now.

    • @joshuapage853
      @joshuapage853 Год назад +28

      man is revieing the soul of the nation

    • @ACoupleStoners
      @ACoupleStoners Год назад +8

      Yeah....... No..... He's not.

    • @ALGOAI01
      @ALGOAI01 Год назад +42

      @@ACoupleStoners wake up

    • @ACoupleStoners
      @ACoupleStoners Год назад +4

      @@ALGOAI01 he is very clearly singing this from an us vs. them perspective. It's the old souls vs. All these new world liberals.

    • @mister_dave1184
      @mister_dave1184 Год назад +42

      ​@ACoupleStoners he is very clearly singing this for all of us that work too hard, get taxed 40 percent and get nothing for it.

  • @crforfreedom7407
    @crforfreedom7407 Год назад +735

    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.

    • @reidadams4277
      @reidadams4277 Год назад +24

      Don't forget darn fine whiskey.

    • @youtubegavemynameawaycuntbags
      @youtubegavemynameawaycuntbags Год назад

      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.

    • @suckit758
      @suckit758 Год назад +23

      And moonshine that can peel paint

    • @RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217
      @RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217 Год назад +21

      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.

    • @crforfreedom7407
      @crforfreedom7407 Год назад +19

      @@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.

  • @redsassy938
    @redsassy938 Год назад +6483

    Rich men north of Richmond.....the politicians in Washington DC.

    • @youtubesucks-yx6kk
      @youtubesucks-yx6kk Год назад +224

      That's exactly what it's about 💯

    • @neshama2195
      @neshama2195 Год назад

      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

    • @georgecolon1239
      @georgecolon1239 Год назад +66

      Yup!!!

    • @dominicksalvato5143
      @dominicksalvato5143 Год назад +43

      Was about to say that.

    • @liamwinter4512
      @liamwinter4512 Год назад +31

      Thanks radar

  • @souls1819
    @souls1819 9 месяцев назад +174

    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!

    • @Misfit.45Guy
      @Misfit.45Guy 7 месяцев назад

      Yeeeeaaaah, and he's also my 2nd cousin..😂

    • @DirtyDangles410
      @DirtyDangles410 6 месяцев назад +1

      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

    • @Misfit.45Guy
      @Misfit.45Guy 6 месяцев назад

      @@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...

    • @Psiikix
      @Psiikix 5 месяцев назад

      As everyone should be.
      Fuck those that align with a political party. You're the problem in the world

    • @funniebunnie4u
      @funniebunnie4u 27 дней назад

      Rad...

  • @alexcobb880
    @alexcobb880 Год назад +1161

    As a hardworking factory worker father of four. This song broke me. Not going to lie this song made me cry. This guy understands.

    • @aholstercompany5270
      @aholstercompany5270 Год назад +57

      you're not alone brother...

    • @annamarie2754
      @annamarie2754 Год назад +26

      Bless you & yours❤

    • @SR71GIRL
      @SR71GIRL Год назад +33

      You are NOT alone!❤🙏🇺🇸

    • @Essetheartist
      @Essetheartist Год назад +24

      Yes, I seen a guy cry on tiktok to this and I wasn't even shocked by it. This song hits different

    • @BROU-bb2uc
      @BROU-bb2uc Год назад +17

      ​@@EssetheartistI read the comments on his channel and it made me chocked up and I consider myself a pretty hard man.

  • @yeahiknow850
    @yeahiknow850 Год назад +2658

    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!

    • @killwire4432
      @killwire4432 Год назад +111

      "People like me, and people like you." For all of us who been kicked a few too many times. 🙂

    • @CH-kr2df
      @CH-kr2df Год назад +1

      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❤

    • @yeahiknow850
      @yeahiknow850 Год назад +21

      @@CH-kr2df exactly! Very well said!

    • @rickroll4461
      @rickroll4461 Год назад +33

      I feel it too. I think most of this country can relate. We're all getting screwed over together. God bless

    • @scottmckinney6328
      @scottmckinney6328 Год назад +36

      Any one getting fucked over by the government can relate to this song. Which is pretty much everybody except the governments across the world.

  • @brianboyett6250
    @brianboyett6250 Год назад +3657

    "I wish politicians would look out for miners, and not just minors on a island somewhere". That line is gold

    • @TJ-um8ce
      @TJ-um8ce Год назад +172

      I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks that line is pure POETRY!

    • @lbarmstrong1
      @lbarmstrong1 Год назад +51

      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!

    • @gamingnoob3190
      @gamingnoob3190 Год назад +28

      Yeah, he's talking about bitcoin miners, I believe. FTX

    • @Pixieshade
      @Pixieshade Год назад

      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.

    • @blackbeansmatter1280
      @blackbeansmatter1280 Год назад +27

      ​@@gamingnoob3190😂

  • @JacindaH
    @JacindaH 6 месяцев назад +189

    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.

    • @MaryHawkins-q8d
      @MaryHawkins-q8d 6 месяцев назад +6

      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.

    • @SR71GIRL
      @SR71GIRL 6 месяцев назад +4

      I am so incredibly sorry to hear this...God help us all.😢

    • @svenno9951
      @svenno9951 6 месяцев назад +4

      try to be strong. I truly feel for you

    • @janosszegeti2280
      @janosszegeti2280 5 месяцев назад +2

      Reality !

    • @ferrarriohh
      @ferrarriohh 5 месяцев назад +2

      And the nations debt still goes up and up

  • @sircasm6578
    @sircasm6578 Год назад +8401

    That's not country music. That's straight-up Appalachian folk music. 😊

    • @eternallife9786
      @eternallife9786 Год назад +81

      It's the blues

    • @sircasm6578
      @sircasm6578 Год назад +288

      ​@@eternallife9786no.. it's not

    • @andreajordan2711
      @andreajordan2711 Год назад +21

      Damn Skippy

    • @tamtam777
      @tamtam777 Год назад +184

      lil fact...this was his first time singing into a microphone...

    • @traceycurtis1005
      @traceycurtis1005 Год назад +34

      Was just about to type the same thing. You're correct.

  • @Alexander-fr1kk
    @Alexander-fr1kk Год назад +675

    You can hear the pain and sorrow in this man’s voice, God bless this true patriot!!!

    • @RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217
      @RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217 Год назад +9

      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.

    • @Glenn-wn3uc
      @Glenn-wn3uc Год назад +11

      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.

    • @Alexander-fr1kk
      @Alexander-fr1kk Год назад +5

      @@Glenn-wn3uc I thought that was obvious 😳

    • @user-og3ew6fo9v
      @user-og3ew6fo9v Год назад

      ​@@RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217 Tom McDonald's is a pandering clown. He is just taking advantage of the gullible cult. Oliver is making honest music.

    • @trollpolice
      @trollpolice Год назад +2

      @@Glenn-wn3uche also said miners like Wv coal miners,

  • @KendoExtendo11
    @KendoExtendo11 Год назад +934

    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.

    • @ReginaN
      @ReginaN Год назад +16

      Preach. All over the world- it's a fight for our souls and we will not give up.

    • @crustybomb115
      @crustybomb115 Год назад +10

      or just all around the world if you look at the comments... some of the stuff there still applies everywhere...

    • @namantherockstar
      @namantherockstar Год назад +2

      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...

    • @ianmcdonald3053
      @ianmcdonald3053 Год назад

      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!

    • @mediagiant1
      @mediagiant1 Год назад +5

      not just Middle America

  • @VP-bx2jj
    @VP-bx2jj 4 месяца назад +69

    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.

  • @SarkyYamYam
    @SarkyYamYam Год назад +468

    His song calls to the world, not just the USA

    • @javierperez1200
      @javierperez1200 Год назад +15

      Exactly❤

    • @ThuyLe-bd3id
      @ThuyLe-bd3id Год назад

      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.

    • @bellingdog
      @bellingdog Год назад +21

      From Australia, Amen to that.

    • @虎-k8v
      @虎-k8v Год назад +15

      China here,speak for all common folks

    • @joshuasprinkles3490
      @joshuasprinkles3490 Год назад +1

      F that get your own stuff

  • @MommaBear_316
    @MommaBear_316 Год назад +547

    THIS MAN SPEAKS FOR FOR ALL OF US, THE SILENT MILLIONS MAJORITY!

    • @joe7626
      @joe7626 Год назад +1

      😂😂😂😂
      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💪🏼

    • @GetLostGames1
      @GetLostGames1 Год назад +21

      His voice is ours and it’s amazing to hear!

    • @SeraphimDragon
      @SeraphimDragon Год назад

      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?

    • @Alshe1221
      @Alshe1221 Год назад

      Time for us to stop being silent!!!!! They did not ask our permission to destroy our world!!!!

  • @princessl651
    @princessl651 Год назад +442

    Amazing how this guy was truly discovered and Rich saw him and asked him to come on his tour.... NATURAL talent..... I'm glad

    • @trippytradingcards7852
      @trippytradingcards7852 Год назад +16

      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

    • @johnnyjarrett8166
      @johnnyjarrett8166 Год назад +34

      Deer stand in background... LEGEND ALREADY

    • @gunnerblankenship4132
      @gunnerblankenship4132 Год назад +4

      HELL YEAH!

    • @atraildog
      @atraildog Год назад +1

      This guy doesn't need Nashville.... Nashville needs him!

  • @adamwalker7018
    @adamwalker7018 9 месяцев назад +17

    Love y'alls reaction as soon as he started singing. You knew it was about to get real.

  • @TBKN316
    @TBKN316 Год назад +300

    DC is north of Richmond. This song made me feel it, every freaking note.

    • @Olivia-bl8ez
      @Olivia-bl8ez Год назад +14

      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.

    • @frxsted2457
      @frxsted2457 Год назад +19

      I 110% assure you he is talking about politicians in D.C

    • @youtubesucks-yx6kk
      @youtubesucks-yx6kk Год назад +4

      Correct, on his page, his comment is pinned under the vid saying that it is talking about the politicians.

    • @Dwightaroundyolips
      @Dwightaroundyolips Год назад +7

      He's absolutely talking about DC

    • @JozieWales420
      @JozieWales420 Год назад

      ​@@frxsted2457yep

  • @scottcochrane9130
    @scottcochrane9130 Год назад +332

    Number 1 on iTunes in 3 days over 6 million views. This dude is the real deal...

  • @cody7259
    @cody7259 Год назад +680

    I’m so glad our Appalachian culture is finally getting the recognition it deserves

    • @livinglife4835
      @livinglife4835 Год назад +13

      Wasn't Miss Dolly Parton from the Appalachian mountains?

    • @pernellfomby9933
      @pernellfomby9933 Год назад +20

      ​@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.

    • @Doubie.
      @Doubie. Год назад +6

      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 .

    • @forgottenfilmchannel1194
      @forgottenfilmchannel1194 Год назад +3

      Farmville Va is outside of Richmond. Much love and respect to a local guy!!

    • @Zack-hv3sf
      @Zack-hv3sf Год назад +3

      properly pronounced App-Uh-Latch-Uhn Culture at that!

  • @frenchyoutubely
    @frenchyoutubely 9 месяцев назад +62

    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.

  • @peacelovechickengrease
    @peacelovechickengrease Год назад +2888

    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.
    ✌🏼♥️🇺🇸

    • @gigib7194
      @gigib7194 Год назад +68

      Totally agree with you, even commented on his page that I hope he does stay pure & independent! God is good!

    • @ryaniscool.1245
      @ryaniscool.1245 Год назад +37

      Gross he’s nothing like Tom or Adam. He’s actually talking about real problems

    • @peacelovechickengrease
      @peacelovechickengrease Год назад +43

      ​@@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.

    • @718chico
      @718chico Год назад +12

      ❤🙏🙏🙏💪💪💪🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

    • @ChristaFree
      @ChristaFree Год назад +27

      Amen honey! God is mighty!

  • @twistedyarncrochetbykelly4611
    @twistedyarncrochetbykelly4611 Год назад +603

    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!!❤

    • @brunobaron458
      @brunobaron458 Год назад +14

      He speaks for the working class all over the world, god bless this man

    • @jasoncoughran5360
      @jasoncoughran5360 Год назад +5

      ❤❤❤❤❤

    • @donnatassa2018
      @donnatassa2018 Год назад +13

      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.

    • @ISAYDUMSTUFF
      @ISAYDUMSTUFF Год назад +4

      He is not a farmer. And his name is Chris, his grandfather was named Oliver Anthony, it's a tribute to him. Research people

    • @jimmyhicks1703
      @jimmyhicks1703 Год назад +3

      From VA as well. pretty close to me. Loving the meaning behind the song!

  • @Mary-ahern
    @Mary-ahern Год назад +762

    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.

    • @nicolahuebscher4440
      @nicolahuebscher4440 Год назад +18

      I' m from Germany. You are right.

    • @dukey19941
      @dukey19941 Год назад

      @@nicolahuebscher4440all of us are pawns for the elite. Doesn’t matter what country you’re from. We’re all tired.

    • @vegeta9501
      @vegeta9501 Год назад +3

      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)

    • @somedude1666
      @somedude1666 Год назад +22

      You just gotta change the word "north" to "east" and "dollar" to "pound" and the song becomes about the UK government.

    • @isturbo1984
      @isturbo1984 Год назад +5

      If anything, this song is for all the people who vote for this stuff then whine about it later. yall did this to yourselves.

  • @jamousL
    @jamousL 5 месяцев назад +20

    This song still brings a tear to my eye every time.

  • @barefootdgypsy3233
    @barefootdgypsy3233 Год назад +993

    We all need to come together and get these crooks out of control. A nation divided can not stand!!!

    • @JJJOOSSHHH
      @JJJOOSSHHH Год назад +12

      Nobody has the guts.

    • @JJamahJamerson
      @JJamahJamerson Год назад +29

      Problem is we disagree on who the crooks are.

    • @eugenia523
      @eugenia523 Год назад

      That's what the elitist commies are counting on

    • @bobsnob3073
      @bobsnob3073 Год назад

      ​​@@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.

    • @Ineedmag
      @Ineedmag Год назад +6

      deep down everyone knows who the "chosen" people are@@JJamahJamerson

  • @danielsalsbury4169
    @danielsalsbury4169 Год назад +301

    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.

    • @jayeightate7347
      @jayeightate7347 Год назад +6

      Where was this posted?

    • @danielsalsbury4169
      @danielsalsbury4169 Год назад +10

      I caught it on RadioWV

    • @justinb222
      @justinb222 Год назад +7

      way to go man . ❤from richmond

    • @doreengillet389
      @doreengillet389 Год назад +10

      HUMBLE!! EXTREMELY HUMBLE!! 👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏💙💙💙

    • @1MSally1965
      @1MSally1965 Год назад +5

      Amen! I hope he knows Christ! Sounds like it!

  • @Crybaby-Media
    @Crybaby-Media Год назад +422

    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 .

    • @dev...5150
      @dev...5150 Год назад +14

      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...

    • @kyleyork1212
      @kyleyork1212 Год назад +15

      Jamie Johnson even showed up to one of his pop up concerts this week and sang with him

    • @stormysmurf
      @stormysmurf Год назад +1

      That made me cry....

  • @Pita_R
    @Pita_R 4 месяца назад +24

    A year later, Oliver’s song still resonates with me.

    • @annehaverhals1750
      @annehaverhals1750 4 месяца назад

      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.

    • @Clbynrod
      @Clbynrod 3 месяца назад

      The vibrations for me seem to be only getting louder

  • @littlewing4299
    @littlewing4299 Год назад +223

    He's an off grid farmer on 90 acres with his 3 dogs! Amazing overnight sensation ballad for the working man!

    • @MichaelCarolina
      @MichaelCarolina Год назад +9

      Makes me love this man even more.

    • @slipstreammonkey
      @slipstreammonkey Год назад

      How can you be off the grid with 90 acres?

    • @littlewing4299
      @littlewing4299 Год назад +1

      @@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!

    • @slipstreammonkey
      @slipstreammonkey Год назад

      @@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.

    • @littlewing4299
      @littlewing4299 Год назад +1

      @@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?

  • @lgirl1225
    @lgirl1225 Год назад +857

    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!

    • @futurereflections4097
      @futurereflections4097 Год назад +18

      I hope we have a rock revival. I respect this guy but I’m a rock guy

    • @MR-backup
      @MR-backup Год назад +39

      New World Order Protest songs...I like that.

    • @Wowjustwow37
      @Wowjustwow37 Год назад +11

      I love it! Woody Guthrie for 2023!

    • @Nathanizbeast
      @Nathanizbeast Год назад +1

      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

    • @earlshannon1048
      @earlshannon1048 Год назад +5

      AMEN AND GOD BLESS YOU

  • @sunnydays8270
    @sunnydays8270 Год назад +146

    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.

  • @MarkBerlin
    @MarkBerlin 6 месяцев назад +113

    My Dad hated his job, but he worked his ass off to support a wife, mother, and four children.

    • @frankcastle1216
      @frankcastle1216 5 месяцев назад +1

      "There goes my hero."
      "He's ordinary."
      Didn't know what this really meant, unfortunately, until I lost my Dad.

    • @frankcastle1216
      @frankcastle1216 5 месяцев назад

      "There goes my hero."
      "He's ordinary."
      Didn't really understand this, unfortunately, until I lost my Dad.

    • @NaptownClassic
      @NaptownClassic 5 месяцев назад

      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.

    • @theSHAD087
      @theSHAD087 Месяц назад

      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.

  • @sari5045
    @sari5045 Год назад +353

    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! ✌️🇺🇸

    • @michellehill1780
      @michellehill1780 Год назад +8

      Amen! Hallelujah. It's time.

    • @teetaunjj7894
      @teetaunjj7894 Год назад +7

      America The Beautiful!! ❤♥️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

    • @DinDooIt
      @DinDooIt Год назад +8

      We are different though, there's us and there's the elite, one wants the other enslaved!

    • @ddm4v793
      @ddm4v793 Год назад +3

      100% I hope so

    • @frankp7411
      @frankp7411 Год назад

      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

  • @tommynobaka
    @tommynobaka Год назад +441

    This song isn't just for America... it's for the world. Relatable on every account

  • @samanthafitzgerel4460
    @samanthafitzgerel4460 Год назад +732

    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.

    • @doeyjiaz4798
      @doeyjiaz4798 Год назад +22

      Shout out from Canada, this hits here too

    • @mattbowden1981
      @mattbowden1981 Год назад +5

      Facts

    • @TRoussele
      @TRoussele Год назад

      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

    • @yonasgiant
      @yonasgiant Год назад +12

      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.

    • @doeyjiaz4798
      @doeyjiaz4798 Год назад +21

      @@yonasgiant the name of the song is literally Rich Men North Of Richmond... what don't you understand?

  • @pmcb62
    @pmcb62 5 месяцев назад +11

    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

  • @ChristaFree
    @ChristaFree Год назад +96

    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.

    • @Akihito007
      @Akihito007 Год назад

      How long before the Demonic liberal media does everything it can to destroy him??

    • @usmanbarak2615
      @usmanbarak2615 Год назад +2

      May God bless this man, he’s already touched millions by his grace. We needed this in these difficult times.

  • @onewade1974
    @onewade1974 Год назад +250

    The line about wishing the government care more about minors and not just on that island is cold as hell. Epstien Island

    • @christopheryou5040
      @christopheryou5040 Год назад +9

      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.

    • @XxMrRoachxX
      @XxMrRoachxX Год назад

      The first is miners (like coal etc.) the second is minors and refers to Epstein island where many of those rich men went!!!

    • @BradCross1982
      @BradCross1982 Год назад +14

      @@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

    • @libertybell8852
      @libertybell8852 Год назад +6

      ​@@BradCross1982exactly! Miners/minors!

    • @Wrangzilla
      @Wrangzilla Год назад

      the fist is miners (as in coal miners) and the second is minors (as is Epsteins island minors)

  • @josephchoe2786
    @josephchoe2786 Год назад +813

    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
      @CongressSux1776 Год назад +4

      You’re either South Korean or American.
      Which is it?!?

    • @claytonangotti1784
      @claytonangotti1784 Год назад

      @@CongressSux1776you’re pathetic

    • @rayRay-pw6gz
      @rayRay-pw6gz Год назад

      @@CongressSux1776not true . You are an American jack***.

    • @BigYota
      @BigYota Год назад +39

      ​@@CongressSux1776why can't he be both?

    • @Stephyroo
      @Stephyroo Год назад +1

      ​@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.

  • @ricallen3508
    @ricallen3508 6 месяцев назад +5

    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.

  • @kbarkid
    @kbarkid Год назад +431

    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.

    • @jacobmasters438
      @jacobmasters438 Год назад +13

      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.

    • @ianmedford4855
      @ianmedford4855 Год назад +7

      We've gotten to watch 4 men fall in love with their country. It's been fantastic.

    • @YankeeMugwump
      @YankeeMugwump Год назад +4

      The guys don't know where Richmond is located. Apparently they didn't pay attention in high school history class.

    • @RorysonTV
      @RorysonTV Год назад +4

      Yeah I guess, Asking where is Richmond, who was this song made for , made me think of ignorance beyond belief.

    • @robertmiller4004
      @robertmiller4004 Год назад +1

      Absolutely!

  • @amydesroches1358
    @amydesroches1358 Год назад +1346

    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!

    • @jasonwright8546
      @jasonwright8546 Год назад

      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.

    • @shaneobrien148
      @shaneobrien148 Год назад +12

      💯

    • @NoiselessBob
      @NoiselessBob Год назад +5

      ✊🏾

    • @SteveBMX01
      @SteveBMX01 Год назад +37

      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. ❤️

    • @timtonner946
      @timtonner946 Год назад +17

      We need Administrative change...

  • @genamueller
    @genamueller Год назад +1295

    This man might have just single-handedly UNITED this Country! Well done sir! Well done! 👏👏👏

    • @drlarrymitchell
      @drlarrymitchell Год назад

      FUCK that noise, hilljack.

    • @bobhs1605
      @bobhs1605 Год назад +13

      Through pandering. Imagine getting chills from something like this. 😂

    • @genamueller
      @genamueller Год назад

      @@bobhs1605 you must enjoy being ruled by the elite. Not me! Give me Liberty or give me death!

    • @DjWellDressedMan
      @DjWellDressedMan Год назад +16

      "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

    • @ButchC130
      @ButchC130 Год назад +21

      Y'all saying this song is racial or " fat phobic " are the true problem.

  • @miguelazo68
    @miguelazo68 9 месяцев назад +5

    Love these videos - thanks for sharing your experiences. it is a refreshing reminder to keep and open mind!

  • @karooboermeyer1115
    @karooboermeyer1115 Год назад +620

    This guy wrote and sang a song that is resonating globally.

    • @CrownedOne919
      @CrownedOne919 Год назад +16

      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".

    • @buckjones4901
      @buckjones4901 Год назад +11

      Yes those "rich men" are all over the world, and working together to keep rest of us down.

    • @hornyconvict
      @hornyconvict Год назад +3

      This song is maybe profound if you're a 12 year old

    • @TheFilipsogan
      @TheFilipsogan Год назад

      @@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.

    • @eclipsegst9419
      @eclipsegst9419 Год назад

      The people that want to rule the world with a one world govt are attacking all of us.

  • @ElizabethSwims
    @ElizabethSwims Год назад +4875

    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.

    • @MrsLegitParttwo
      @MrsLegitParttwo Год назад +17

      Please stop. Nonsense.

    • @newenglandtraditionalist
      @newenglandtraditionalist Год назад +257

      @@MrsLegitParttwo tell me you worship the government without telling me you worship the government...

    • @sharpeningstone
      @sharpeningstone Год назад

      Bro they are probably aliens at this point. I don't see why else they would intentionally be destroying the human race

    • @ShadowWolf357
      @ShadowWolf357 Год назад +103

      @@MrsLegitParttwo what nonsense? Do clarify 😆

    • @ShadowWolf357
      @ShadowWolf357 Год назад +64

      @@newenglandtraditionalist exactly. Education missed her, I'm guessing. Same kind of person who won't talk that in a Cuban neighborhood.

  • @travishanson9491
    @travishanson9491 Год назад +1293

    He’s singing for all of us! We need to unite and vote all the crooks out!!!

    • @waznbo4379
      @waznbo4379 Год назад

      The illusion that voting is the solution is nothing but depravity searching to cope. They will never allow themselves to be voted out.

    • @RonnieRawdawg
      @RonnieRawdawg Год назад +103

      you cant vote your way out of tyranny.

    • @YankeeMugwump
      @YankeeMugwump Год назад +34

      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.

    • @jakenunya1587
      @jakenunya1587 Год назад

      @@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.

    • @ShadowGateKDA
      @ShadowGateKDA Год назад

      Sounds like Anti-capitalism.

  • @Yakpescador-wm7ox
    @Yakpescador-wm7ox 6 месяцев назад +4

    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...

  • @williambarlow1233
    @williambarlow1233 Год назад +174

    as of right now, Oliver Anthony has 14 of the top 50 songs on iTunes, thanks to guys like you!

    • @NJVL
      @NJVL Год назад +4

      right now he has 1-3!

    • @williamobrien6480
      @williamobrien6480 Год назад +1

      @@NJVL I think he meant 4 instead of 14.

  • @Zer0t0lerance93
    @Zer0t0lerance93 Год назад +293

    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

    • @zoomer824
      @zoomer824 Год назад +10

      I would love to find an overseas reaction.

    • @sydneysomer9958
      @sydneysomer9958 Год назад +5

      Me too. I have watched a ton of them.

    • @Dwightaroundyolips
      @Dwightaroundyolips Год назад

      ​@@sydneysomer9958I've been doing the same. It's driving my wife crazy

    • @uglymane5299
      @uglymane5299 Год назад +4

      ​@zoomer824 read the comments on the @radiowv video

    • @duppyconqueror6210
      @duppyconqueror6210 Год назад

      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!

  • @reggiedavis1322
    @reggiedavis1322 Год назад +1356

    As a black person, this brought tears to my eyes. I related a lot to it. You got a fan for life Anthony 💯🔥

    • @cbpapp
      @cbpapp Год назад +25

      It brought tears to my eyes too, Reggie. Much love to you in oneness, Brother🙏🏻❤️🕊

    • @PathOfAvraham
      @PathOfAvraham Год назад +27

      Why do Americans say their colour before a comment?
      I'm genuinely asking.

    • @giulianotoniolo
      @giulianotoniolo Год назад +3

      I thought I was alone on that one...

    • @hollycleveland3392
      @hollycleveland3392 Год назад +6

      O buddy he is singing for you too! ❤ he is singing for all of us ❤

    • @D4Disdain
      @D4Disdain Год назад +13

      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.

  • @jgamez5023
    @jgamez5023 4 месяца назад +4

    In all my life I've never heard a song move people like this before...what can you say but wow !

  • @lochnessmonster5149
    @lochnessmonster5149 Год назад +1000

    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.

    • @Degenevesting
      @Degenevesting Год назад +16

      Fax fax fax

    • @rext3404
      @rext3404 Год назад +59

      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.

    • @missyjean3588
      @missyjean3588 Год назад +17

      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’

    • @sgtelias2258
      @sgtelias2258 Год назад +20

      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.

    • @user-qi7nn3qe2t
      @user-qi7nn3qe2t Год назад +3

      there's no plight, most of you live a very easy life.

  • @letmegro4968
    @letmegro4968 Год назад +673

    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 !

    • @Resistculturaldecline
      @Resistculturaldecline Год назад +24

      There is a ruling class in every country. Everyone else is some varient of slave to them.

    • @Sakmaquil
      @Sakmaquil Год назад +18

      Exactly 💯 WE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD 🎉🎉🎉

    • @mr.potter9426
      @mr.potter9426 Год назад +4

      Yes, peace be with you,it's truly an amazing time watching the "people of the world" unite🙏🏼🙏🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏿

    • @dorisjacobs6388
      @dorisjacobs6388 Год назад +5

      Unite the world!!🎉. The elite go see your maker. Let's see how you fare. The people are speaking❤

    • @oreocookie3185
      @oreocookie3185 Год назад +5

      Lord Jesus is coming! He will be a JUST FATHER!

  • @good2goskee
    @good2goskee Год назад +654

    no fluff, no flashy splashy visual effects
    Just pure soul poetry........

    • @TawnyaDickerson-hp9gu
      @TawnyaDickerson-hp9gu Год назад +10

      This is what country music used to sound like

    • @CharlieBravoTango
      @CharlieBravoTango Год назад +7

      ​@@TawnyaDickerson-hp9guthis sounds a lot more folk than it sounds country. Nothing about girls and pickup trucks

    • @TawnyaDickerson-hp9gu
      @TawnyaDickerson-hp9gu Год назад

      @@CharlieBravoTango that’s what I mean folk

    • @TawnyaDickerson-hp9gu
      @TawnyaDickerson-hp9gu Год назад +3

      Country used to tell stories of hardships and heartbreaks and a boy named sue

    • @UrdeepestthoughtsVictoria
      @UrdeepestthoughtsVictoria Год назад +1

      ​@@CharlieBravoTangonot all country songs are about "girls beer and tractors"

  • @marywills158
    @marywills158 4 месяца назад +4

    AMAZING VOICE & HE HAS DONE IT ON HIS ON!!

  • @missym4167
    @missym4167 Год назад +456

    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.

    • @laurasummers115
      @laurasummers115 Год назад +27

      Thanks for sharing. I wouldn't have seen it otherwise ❤

    • @erinvanek6881
      @erinvanek6881 Год назад +15

      Man! I resonate with everything said here! I had to fight crying. God bless you!!

    • @8aNda1d
      @8aNda1d Год назад +15

      Thanks for posting. I was just going to search his history.

    • @WildBison74
      @WildBison74 Год назад +12

      Wow, he’s spot on.

    • @Give.It.Everything.Youve.Got.
      @Give.It.Everything.Youve.Got. Год назад +5

  • @MutualistSoc
    @MutualistSoc Год назад +172

    This is what scares the hell out of the people on Wallstreet and in Washington.

    • @Oilman6969
      @Oilman6969 Год назад +4

      100% They don’t actually control anything

    • @mimi-ur8pc
      @mimi-ur8pc Год назад

      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

    • @rebeccaconlon9743
      @rebeccaconlon9743 Год назад

      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.

    • @cdyoung976
      @cdyoung976 Год назад +2

      Maybe but they're not scared enough! Yet.

  • @PewciSlayer
    @PewciSlayer Год назад +204

    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.

    • @Kolossus_
      @Kolossus_ Год назад +17

      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

    • @DingleCerri
      @DingleCerri Год назад

      @@Kolossus_it’s a part of the agenda

    • @RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217
      @RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217 Год назад

      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_

    • @timmytubow7651
      @timmytubow7651 Год назад +3

      Exactly. This is more than country. This is the common man blues. Hits you in the heart

    • @MommaBear_316
      @MommaBear_316 Год назад +2

      Us truly country folks call them and that "new age Country" RINESTONE COWBOY WANNABES!

  • @CeezHypancistrus
    @CeezHypancistrus 2 месяца назад

    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

  • @kyleshrum8186
    @kyleshrum8186 Год назад +63

    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.

  • @AnnKeedwellKeeders
    @AnnKeedwellKeeders Год назад +100

    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. ❤

    • @chugnorris7091
      @chugnorris7091 Год назад +7

      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

    • @johnnyskinwalker4095
      @johnnyskinwalker4095 Год назад +3

      Damn right!

    • @vulgarprophet2689
      @vulgarprophet2689 Год назад +3

      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.

    • @mike30680
      @mike30680 Год назад +1

      The middle class and everyday people around the world our being used and abused. We all need to let our voices be heard.

  • @davidward8939
    @davidward8939 Год назад +1372

    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

    • @rondo_with_it5946
      @rondo_with_it5946 Год назад +203

      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.

    • @paddy9449
      @paddy9449 Год назад

      ME TOO!!!!!!@@rondo_with_it5946

    • @fabiancanada8876
      @fabiancanada8876 Год назад +56

      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.

    • @jolenewindham5484
      @jolenewindham5484 Год назад +13

      Gonna have to address the police if we don’t want to be divided!!

    • @300enigma
      @300enigma Год назад +24

      We all need to unite
      And leave the Government out of it

  • @QuantumShineAMAC
    @QuantumShineAMAC 4 месяца назад +4

    This song hits home. Right where the Heart is!

  • @BradfordHomestead
    @BradfordHomestead Год назад +155

    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

    • @virginiafromvirginia3390
      @virginiafromvirginia3390 Год назад +6

      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😂

    • @ProbablyStoned_
      @ProbablyStoned_ Год назад +9

      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!

    • @allanfranklin9615
      @allanfranklin9615 Год назад +1

      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.

    • @aguyyouneverknew
      @aguyyouneverknew Год назад +1

      @@allanfranklin9615 He has apparently turned down offers that have been made so far. Hope he sticks to his guns.

  • @milesmatheson1142
    @milesmatheson1142 Год назад +176

    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.

    • @mimi-ur8pc
      @mimi-ur8pc Год назад +8

      This is Appalachian music.

    • @gojobuddy
      @gojobuddy Год назад

      I think it’s more folk music than country music.

  • @janosaudron42us
    @janosaudron42us Год назад +790

    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.

    • @johnW2G
      @johnW2G Год назад +12

      Regardless of what you believe they’ll never care for you.

    • @jessicarogers6646
      @jessicarogers6646 Год назад +10

      You’re exactly right - he is speaking for ALL people.

    • @larrybxl5406
      @larrybxl5406 Год назад

      @@jessicarogers6646 nope he's speaking for trumpanzee deplorable dimwits

    • @dramedy1804
      @dramedy1804 Год назад +38

      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.

    • @marcelbork92
      @marcelbork92 Год назад +4

      @@dramedy1804 You are a great exception.

  • @johnmackey2240
    @johnmackey2240 Месяц назад

    I've been watching your reviews for 2 years and I love the it's growing. Keep on keeping on.

  • @6dayzofchaos584
    @6dayzofchaos584 Год назад +56

    So raw. SO much emotion. Beautiful song.

  • @walkofnails2923
    @walkofnails2923 Год назад +207

    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 💣

    • @phillipt9022
      @phillipt9022 Год назад +13

      I had the same thought, that was a deep subliminal hit that caught fire 🔥

    • @winstonmontag8824
      @winstonmontag8824 Год назад +3

      Yeah it was pretty obvious what he meant lol

    • @jayjones9219
      @jayjones9219 Год назад

      Great line and so true. Powerful and wealthy elites flying all over exploiting underage girls, versus worrying about hard working Americans.

  • @stephengartland2773
    @stephengartland2773 Год назад +305

    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...

    • @mimi-ur8pc
      @mimi-ur8pc Год назад

      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.

    • @garrettshelton4773
      @garrettshelton4773 Год назад +1

      He is 30 some

    • @seventeen912
      @seventeen912 Год назад +9

      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!

  • @kyleallen1858
    @kyleallen1858 3 месяца назад +2

    This song so good almost make me cry

  • @iloveschicken6527
    @iloveschicken6527 Год назад +108

    He's singing for ALL of us! God bless this man and God bless all!

  • @AlphaRomeoOneFive
    @AlphaRomeoOneFive Год назад +312

    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 🇺🇸

    • @Wowjustwow37
      @Wowjustwow37 Год назад +10

      Amen Alpha! God bless you. And you and we all have our prayers that we can own our lives one day soon!

    • @Zayphar
      @Zayphar Год назад +8

      This is more a Folk song than a Country song.

    • @JC-em4tx
      @JC-em4tx Год назад

      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

    • @paceflchick
      @paceflchick Год назад +6

      🙏🇺🇸

    • @jackiematkovics6688
      @jackiematkovics6688 Год назад +6

      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.

  • @pw3025
    @pw3025 Год назад +581

    "And not the just the minors on another island somewhere" Is so underrated, you all missed it

    • @Bonetti.23
      @Bonetti.23 Год назад +30

      Double entendre? Minors somewhere, but also MINERS somewhere 💰

    • @robbiecraig5391
      @robbiecraig5391 Год назад +34

      They completely missed that

    • @trinaengland5768
      @trinaengland5768 Год назад +39

      Yes, and hopefully he isn’t “Epsteined “.

    • @angel8411
      @angel8411 Год назад +58

      ​@@Bonetti.23he's talking about Epstein Island.

    • @Prayforthesufferingchildren
      @Prayforthesufferingchildren Год назад +44

      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.

  • @thomasf-y5w
    @thomasf-y5w 9 дней назад

    He came from the deep woods and roared like a grizzly and woke up the world with one soul filling truthful song. God Bless him on his journey. TY all for doing this men.

  • @jenniferslatten6705
    @jenniferslatten6705 Год назад +57

    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!

  • @tx5918
    @tx5918 Год назад +141

    "Wish piloliticians would look out for miners and not just minors on an island somewhere." 🔥 💯 😮

  • @brandonharbin406
    @brandonharbin406 Год назад +103

    This song is relatable for all of us.Great song and sound. Nothing but facts

    • @mariecarr3762
      @mariecarr3762 Год назад

      Minors on the island, is Jeffrey Epstein and all the sex trafficking. So many rich rich people, pedophiles and perverts, protecting each other.

  • @melshumen
    @melshumen 16 дней назад

    Thanks for introducing me to this guy…although I’m a year or so late. What he’s learned about the music industry since, y’all need a follow up!

  • @Dwightaroundyolips
    @Dwightaroundyolips Год назад +40

    This song is directly on the pulse of the people in the country. Across the entire spectrum of backgrounds. That why is resonates so much.

  • @tacbear
    @tacbear Год назад +215

    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!!!!

    • @MutualistSoc
      @MutualistSoc Год назад +8

      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.

    • @parrodii3140
      @parrodii3140 Год назад +4

      @@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.

    • @Sweetpea3051
      @Sweetpea3051 Год назад

      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.

    • @thedrainjunkie5654
      @thedrainjunkie5654 Год назад +6

      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.❤

    • @bstrickler1
      @bstrickler1 Год назад +4

      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

  • @jakartajive1679
    @jakartajive1679 Год назад +198

    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
      @user-el2lw6iu4y Год назад

      Really? Raise the bar a bit. Plenty of really good "society screwed me" songs out there. This one isn't.

    • @jakartajive1679
      @jakartajive1679 Год назад +7

      @@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
      @DonHaka Год назад +1

      @@user-el2lw6iu4y This is not a "society screwed me" song, this is a "the system screwed me" as in the capitalist system.

    • @user-el2lw6iu4y
      @user-el2lw6iu4y Год назад

      @@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.

    • @DonHaka
      @DonHaka Год назад +1

      @@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.

  • @Mattyp-1610
    @Mattyp-1610 3 месяца назад +1

    Song tears me up every time I hear it. The pain in his voice speaks to us ALL. His voice. That guitar. The backdrop. Just cuts through ALL the bullshit

  • @seth747
    @seth747 Год назад +37

    This song will blow your mind-major chills. Perfect timing.

  • @flemishpopulist1477
    @flemishpopulist1477 Год назад +52

    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.

    • @timothyjones5959
      @timothyjones5959 Год назад +6

      What comes from the heart touches the heart.

    • @usmanbarak2615
      @usmanbarak2615 Год назад +2

      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.

    • @PAULY-P
      @PAULY-P Год назад

      ​@@usmanbarak2615
      Everything is a test. From the human elites and the divine.
      Live, Die, Repeat 👊🏼

    • @flemishpopulist1477
      @flemishpopulist1477 Год назад

      @@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.

  • @ivywilson6515
    @ivywilson6515 Год назад +140

    That type of guitar is called a resonator. Typically seen in bluegrass and traditional blues.

    • @mcmlxv9827
      @mcmlxv9827 Год назад +12

      Yep and Gretsch better sign the guy now and get him more guitars.

    • @hoochpooch6614
      @hoochpooch6614 Год назад +8

      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..

    • @ivywilson6515
      @ivywilson6515 Год назад +7

      @@hoochpooch6614 I think Dobro was originally a brand name that became synonymous with the resonator guitar. Kinda like Kleenex.

    • @youtubegavemynameawaycuntbags
      @youtubegavemynameawaycuntbags Год назад

      sign him and make him a rich man too, see how quickly he forgets the rich man norf of richmond

    • @dmeenkster
      @dmeenkster Год назад +6

      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.

  • @AdventuringwiththeS.G.O.C.C
    @AdventuringwiththeS.G.O.C.C 5 месяцев назад +3

    This song hits so hard for all of us because it is all of us.

  • @MrHowardMoon
    @MrHowardMoon Год назад +465

    I'm English and this song still speaks to me and for the rest of the working class men of this country who work themselves into the ground for bullshit pay so the ruling class can make life better for themselves.

    • @EyeofValor
      @EyeofValor Год назад +7

      Love my British brothers.

    • @susiesaraf
      @susiesaraf Год назад +9

      And his people are from Appalachian territory- founded by British n Irish settlers who stayed free Americans away from Government 😊of course u feel it!

    • @KarlNiblock
      @KarlNiblock Год назад +5

      You're right, but it ain't just the "working class" in the UK
      I effectively pay more than 55% tax...

    • @isander1
      @isander1 Год назад +1

      Amen brother

    • @MrHowardMoon
      @MrHowardMoon Год назад

      @@KarlNiblock I wish I earned enough to put me in that tax bracket...

  • @delanabunch8990
    @delanabunch8990 Год назад +175

    I love how the Cartier brothers got real quiet when Oliver started singing. He is singing the truth, my brothers! Thank you for this video.

  • @Badwolf0683
    @Badwolf0683 Год назад +430

    You "feel this song in your heart" because it comes from his heart and soul. You can feel it. He is honest and truthful.

    • @jasonwright8546
      @jasonwright8546 Год назад +14

      Authenticity. It is a glass of cool sweet water in the desert of manufactured, sugar coated garbage.

    • @AlanRipman
      @AlanRipman Год назад

      Don't rip glucose. Rip on sucrose lol

    • @GameGluttony
      @GameGluttony Год назад +4

      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.

    • @benott5080
      @benott5080 Год назад

      Love it Chris!

  • @leonardosouza103
    @leonardosouza103 11 месяцев назад

    I'm from Brazil, browsing RUclips I saw your channel and I thought it was really cool, I started studying English on my own 45 days ago. I understand little but little by little I discover new words and phrases and leave it to the translator, God willing. I'm going to watch your videos, your channel is in my favorites and I'm going to watch other videos. Congratulations guys and stay strong.

  • @jamesh1758
    @jamesh1758 Год назад +365

    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 ❤

    • @sherrymayberry5773
      @sherrymayberry5773 Год назад

      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! ❤️

    • @landonletterman831
      @landonletterman831 Год назад

      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._

    • @jonvente1239
      @jonvente1239 Год назад +3

      Love from New York, where the rich get richer and poor get poorer, every day.

    • @gorgeousguitars4151
      @gorgeousguitars4151 Год назад +3

      @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.....

    • @IAmClownbaby
      @IAmClownbaby Год назад +1

      Start with not arresting individuals for speaking their minds and arresting your hundreds of rapists who hide behind their religion.

  • @kirstingooge3918
    @kirstingooge3918 Год назад +90

    Gentleman, he’s playing on a Dobro guitar. Also, this is more Blues/Folk/Appalachian Folk than country. Regardless of genre the song is *FIRE!!!* This young man, Oliver, just sang a call to arms for we Americans - especially middle class - to join together and say *“enough is enough!!”*

    • @rebeccaconlon9743
      @rebeccaconlon9743 Год назад +1

      So that's why people call this bluegrass

    • @shelbyrichard5793
      @shelbyrichard5793 Год назад +1

      It’s called a rag guitar

    • @kirstingooge3918
      @kirstingooge3918 Год назад

      @@shelbyrichard5793 I’ve not heard this name for it before. That’s interesting ☺️ Thanks!

    • @kirstingooge3918
      @kirstingooge3918 Год назад

      @@rebeccaconlon9743 yes, it’s a specific style that often lends itself to singing about very real plights people are going through. As you can see it’s extremely relatable regardless of gender, socioeconomic status, geographical location, etc. It really just speaks to and touches the hearts of humanity 💜

    • @Uploader30001
      @Uploader30001 Год назад +1

      Dobro is a brand. The type of the guitar is called a resonator

  • @Chicken_Wang1
    @Chicken_Wang1 Год назад +642

    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❤️

    • @catb7708
      @catb7708 Год назад +10

      A hero for all of us

    • @KatieMcGrath-b6v
      @KatieMcGrath-b6v Год назад +10

      True - this is Appalachian heart and soul personified in a genuine real dude 🥲 we all needed Oliver to show up - and BOY did he 🔥🙏😭

    • @hughjanus5518
      @hughjanus5518 Год назад +12

      I live in the smokies and I blare this song atleast once a day.

    • @Americanwoman74
      @Americanwoman74 Год назад +10

      I'm an Appalachian girl ❤

    • @markfergerson2145
      @markfergerson2145 Год назад +6

      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”.

  • @ks7343
    @ks7343 Месяц назад +1

    He was absolutely talking about Northern Va like Arlington where it’s blue, when most of the rest of the state is red, and more rural.