Just heard it for the first time on one of our local country stations. I was surprised that they played it since they pulled Jason Aldean's song.

I’m really not a country music fan and I don’t personally find this song to be terribly musically pleasing. But man those lyrics! What an awesome song, clearly from the heart, and dead on accurate. I hope it stays popular and many people listen to those lyrics. Well done Mr. Anthony!

in a long string of unprecedented phenomena this month, perhaps the most encouraging and remarkable one was the appearance out of nowhere of folk artist Oliver Anthony and his breakaway viral hit “Rich Men North of Richmond,” which is comfortably sitting, right this instant, at #1 on Apple Music.

In just a few days, Anthony and his raw, heart-stirring, anti-elitist song have ‘occupied’ social media — and even influenced a Biden tweet, albeit one that misfired badly. U.S. corporate media is silent about the singing sensation. But yesterday the song’s siren sway stretched across the Atlantic to Great Britain, in the form of an op-ed published in the UK Telegraph, penned by its Sunday editor, Alister Heath, headlined “Fury of the silent majority is driving a global Right-wing counter-revolution.”

I bet Anthony never saw that coming when he recorded his viral video.

Oliver Anthony, a name striking an ironically British chord, has in fact apparently tapped into a global right-wing counter revolution. If you somehow missed the Rich Men sensation, and God bless you if you did, you’re demonstrating phenomenal social media discipline, or apologies if you were on the ventilator or something, but either way if you missed it, here’s how the Telegraph’s article described Anthony’s viral song:

In America, Oliver Anthony, a previously unknown musician who has shot to fame with Rich Men North of Richmond, symbolises this shift. He rails against low pay, welfarism, state-subsidised obesity, woke social control and rich Left-wing elites. His song … encapsulates how Right-wing populism has become the anti-establishment movement globally. It is no wonder that the Republican party has been taken over: even if Donald Trump is destroyed, his second and third-placed rivals, Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy, are revolutionaries.

Editor Alister Heath put his finger on the root in that paragraph. It’s not even left/right anymore. It’s anti-establishment versus pro-establishment. I just said that myself a few days ago on a radio interview on Stand in the Gap, carried by over 400 stations.

Although Rich Men wasn’t referenced until midway through the article, it was clear that the entire op-ed was inspired, if not completely fueled up by, Anthony’s song. Consider the article’s lead paragraph:

These are not happy times. Across the West, the vast majority of voters are fed up with the status quo, furious at the political class and desperate for alternatives. They believe society to be broken, that the post-industrial economy and globalisation generally aren’t working for them, and are angry at the vast cultural, social and technological changes that they feel have been foisted upon them.

Truer words were never typed out on a screen. (And, I like the cut of this bloke’s jib, if that is the appropriate English metaphor — UK C&Cers?). The op-ed’s first half catalogued the dreadful fallout from the Left’s post-pandemic overreach, and the second half described examples of what it compellingly characterizes as a worldwide wellspring of rightwing pushback.

From time to time over the last two years, I’ve paused C&C’s regular programming to pull back and look at the big picture. As I see it, (1) World War III started sometime around December 2019, and (2) despite appearances and occasional setbacks, we are winning. Your humble author diligently works daily to present you the evidence of those truths in an entertaining and optimistic way.

Now stop for a moment and think about what it means that Rich Men North of Richmond has become an instant worldwide viral and commercial hit. You’d better believe your adversaries are thinking about it, so you should, too. In spite of their increasingly desperate efforts, the Left is losing the war for minds. They are (still) clamping down on social media, on freedom, on money, on real estate, on safety and security, on medicine — on health itself — really, on everything they can wrap their pallid, decaying fingers around, but they are trying to crush sand.

The harder someone grasps sand, the faster it spills through their fingers.

I’ve been saving this thought for the right time, but it feels like now is the time to talk about it. Granted, the Wuhan lab leak was the most deadly and destructive human-caused disaster in history. A hundred percent. But now consider this: the Wuhan lab leak also dynamited the lid right off the most corrupt worldwide fascist enterprise in history. It also turned peoples’ hearts and minds against the largest, most well-respected and most corrupt human institutions on the planet, like the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, the Gates Foundation, and the so-called United Nations.

We still have a long way to go, but by their inherently unstable design, massive corrupt conspiracies must fail. They can only grow by adding people in two incompetent categories: (1) useful idiots — who are idiots after all, and (2) corrupt people, who are always ultimately ungovernable.

The Proxy War is a great metaphor for where we are in this global conflict.

This will trigger a few folks, but imagine the Russians represent the right-thinking masses. NATO represents the Leftist élite machine. NATO is throwing everything in its arsenal at the Russian underdog, but the Russians tenaciously hang on to their gains and, inch by bloody inch, between wins and losses, are slowly, inexorably, winning the war. Similarly, the Left is running everything in its human-skin-bound playbook at the World, but the World is hanging on and slowly, painfully, winning.


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People like me, and people like you. Livin’ in the new world, with an old soul. Indeed.

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Here is Oliver Anthony’s YouTube posting, the day prior to release of the video.

I really like this guy. He recently played a farm market not even 45 minutes from where I grew up (Currituck NC). You might have seen the videos on YouTube or him opening up with reading from Pslams. I was looking for the verses he read and came across psalm 25 which wasn’t the one he read but it was exactly what I needed to read.

This guy is humble, unique and special and I am a HUGE fan.

God bless you Chris or as most know you Oliver Anthony.

^ psalm at the end.

I like the song and meaning behind it. I currently live in Currituck County NC and he plays down here regularly. I am getting a little annoyed at the vehicle traffic here when he plays at a few road side markets and constantly seeing his face EVERYWHERE. I've met and talked with Oliver and he is a really cool guy who isn't quite ready for the spotlight but he says he's warming up to it.
I wish him well, I just hope the damn traffic dies down.

SigSentry thank you for posting that. I really enjoyed his breakdown. Yeah, he didn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know but he seems like an interesting person who might be worth following and I’m always looking for people like that on YouTube.

That video of him reading the Bible is awesome! You can tell this guy is different from most of the musicians I’ve seen lately. He is VERY humble.

Para got me checking out Jimmy Dore on a regular basis. He's got an interesting take on the critics of this song.

I like it and the message. His original song has 30M views and a whole bunch of other channels talking about it and reviewing it. It's gone world wide!!!

From this weekend in NC - the whole crowd singing it. And note at 10 seconds the t-shirt "Living In A New World" - Old Soul (with US flag)

Oliver Anthony's 'Rich Men North of Richmond' storms to No1

“Blue collar singing sensation Oliver Anthony has become the first debut artist to go straight to number one on the Billboard charts with his country anthem Rich Men North of Richmond.

The factory worker from Farmville, Virginia, has bested the Beatles and Elvis after his self-penned song attacking politicians drew 17.5 million streams and 147,000 downloads in the last week.

The song has captivated millions of disenchanted listeners and seen Anthony hailed as a hero by conservative commentators already excited by the chart-topping success of Jason Aldean’s Try That in a Small Town. …”

DailyMail article:
https://mol.im/a/12430163

32 Million Views...

I usually don't watch reaction views on YT, but I wanted to see what people were saying. I have yet to come across any review which disagrees with the message regardless of what the Left is spewing in the media. The message resonates to 99% of the people in this country.

Can't wait for all the covers. Hank's not bad.

quote:

Originally posted by sig 226:
32 Million Views

2 million more in the last ten hours and I'm responsible for at least a dozen of those. This one's going wide. He's got it all right on the nose, and the guy who discovered him and did the video says he's got a whole bunch of songs. I'd like to hear more from him.

new song by Oliver Anthony

https://www.breitbart.com/ente...n-north-of-richmond/

Rising country singer Oliver Anthony is reportedly reaping great rewards from his surprise hit song, “Rich Men North of Richmond,” and pulling in tens of thousands a day since the song landed at the top of so many music charts.

The thirty-year-old singer-songwriter from Farmville, Virginia, is reportedly bringing in some $40,000 a day while his song continues to top the charts.

Anthony’s protest song soared to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in only a matter of a few weeks after fans began to pick up on the tune on the Internet.

The Hot 100 is not the first chart that the song topped. On Aug. 12, the song shot to no. 1 on the Apple iTunes chart after Anthony’s video was first posted on Aug. 8. The song also topped Spotify’s U.S. Top 50.

The video’s description said Anthony’s intent was to “give hope to the working class and your average hard working young man who may have lost hope in the grind of trying to get by.” And it seems his goal was reached as the song struck a chord with millions of Americans.

“Rich Men North of Richmond” was not the only one of Anthony’s songs that started climbing the charts. Anthony’s tune “Ain’t Gotta Dollar” — which he released last year — climbed to the No. 2 spot on Apple iTunes at the same time his big song reached no.1.

Anthony’s song seems to be part of a wave of tunes protesting America’s current walk down the wrong path.

^^^^^^^
“Anthony’s song seems to be part of a wave of tunes protesting America’s current walk down the wrong path.”

I especially like that part.

I want to go home is the best song I’ve heard in a long time. Its lyrics capture the feeling I have when I return home and the feeling I have looking at how a place I loved has been ruined.

I want to go home too.

I like it a lot more than Rich Men North or Richmond which IMO is a fucking masterpiece.

^^^^
Stockman I agree with you…