And the Rich Men North of Richmond absolutely hate him for that. They want us divided and hating one another so they can control us. This changes everything and they don't like it.
"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
@@DjWellDressedMan That's not at all what he was saying. He was in NO WAY attacking the poor. He was saying the money should be going to people in the streets with nothing to eat, not fat lazy people milking welfare. He was literally saying the tax money should be going to the hungry, not to the fat who spend all your tax dollars on "fudge balls". You got a bad take dude.
@@DjWellDressedManBragg is not even familiar with the right context here, let alone the meaning or activism in the lyrics. His comparisons are several (a dozen? A score?) of years outdated and, in this conversation, he’s effing clueless.
That's what the man is about our wonderful government people need to get there Head out there assess it kills me to look at people looking at this video and have no clue what the man is taking about
He had no idea a week ago that his life was going to be changed forever. He is now on the list playing at the Blue Ridge Music Festival in Virginia, the biggest Rock/Metal festival in the entire Country. A Folk singer, playing at a Metal festival..... the man has captured the feelings of the Country.
@danielhaas9612. I'd love to be able to attend that Festival to see Oliver Anthony's reaction when the crowds see him hit the stage! That'll be a historic time in music history, especially to be welcomed by a rock/metal crowd like you say. Always wanted to live in the South, but no, here I be, in Minnesota.
@@KiloCee That is so refreshing to hear! Our own government removed the "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance to satisfy their master who apparently leads them around by a leash. God Bless this man!
Yep, UK 🇬🇧 cuz here, sharing OA’s truth bombs this side of the pond, purchased on iTunes too, this ought be being played on loop in all government buildings, world over 😊
Who could have thought printing endless money would have this effect....I guess most parents. Imagine if you one day told you sons age 8 to 20 : Those of you with assets can now get money for nothing and buy more assets....and get more money to buy more assets...and get more money.......
As a retired enlisted and officer, if the rich men north of Richmond want to know what I think, well here you go. Also, he had the balls to call out politicians and their neglect of miners/minors.
@@buckleft2317but this man has a target on him now, the industry, the rich men north of Richmond, he seems like a smart guy, heard he lives off the map and he’s not rushing into any contracts, pray this guy stays safe
Just a man standing in front of his deer stand with his dogs, a guitar, a microphone, and a camera laying out facts with all his soul….. You can hear the bugs in the forest
‘Young men putting themselves six feet in the ground, Cause all this damn country does is keep kicking them down’ Hardest hitting words in his straight forth message.
Yea, I am a 59 year old guy who did 28 years in the Navy and this line brought tears to my eyes. I pray for this generation of young men everyday, they need purpose and have the right to be MEN.
With almost universal sentiment... We're being manipulated. Kept quiet, distracted, off topic. None of the men/women North of Richmond should be in power at this point. Get your pitchforks and torches ready we're collectively hitting the ends of our ropes.
@@keimahane I think every 1st reaction commentator I’ve watched on this song has totally skipped over those words. Like people get stuck on him calling out people using food stamps to buy fudge rounds, and miss that he is pointing out military suicides too. 3 different kinds of people in the same verse.
My husband is a vet. The VA has his on so many meds for his “mentals” he doesn’t know up from down. He just clocks in to work until he sleeps. Lost my 19 step son to suicide a few years ago. I went to the grocery store and saw an old woman crying because she couldn’t afford her meager groceries. People in food stamps driving new cars eat better than those that have busted their ass. Our schools ruin our children. What is happening? Silent no longer!
Anyone listening to this song, rich, or poor any color on the wheel hast to feel it they can’t misunderstand it. It’s such a truth song. Keep this man singing and writing. we need old souls like him who can share with out divide dividing us.
This man has gone from never being heard of by hardly anyone to having 9 songs in the top 20, and 4 in the top 10, this one being #1 and having Jamey Johnson join him on stage in his hometown square. And being a worldwide hit literally overnight. He definitely hit a cord with everyone who's tired of all the nonsense. I've heard from friends of mine in various countries overseas, Australia, Japan, S Korea, Thailand and The Philippines. They have told me the locals there love this song to. It's even hit home with them. I'm a 20-year Navy Veteran Been a truck driver since 07. Not much gets me teary eyed and gives me goose bumps. But this song does, each and every time I have heard it.
Spitting Facts and Truths . 24 yrs in Military and working a part time to help support my family. Once Retired still had to work 2 jobs. No matter your Political affiliation
Our brothers are living on the street eating hand-to-mouth while our government gives money to foreign countries and welcomes all these illegals into our country when they don't take care of our own I for one don't care these illegals are sleeping on the street all I can say to these illegals is tough shit Americans Come First. We served our country and the illegals get treated better. Hotel illegals get $350 perdium a day man woman child our tax dollars going to illegals instead of fellow vets .
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.
He is so right, words can heal or they can kill. They net makes it to easy to run off at the mouth, if they were outside and in someones face and got punched in it theyd close it., But they have the safety of doing it from home now.
I disagree. You ar a brave man who I believe is better than you know. You have done a great thing by singing this song and you are an awesome musician with a awesome voice
Absolute GOLD! A song that can bring us all together to create real change. Great reaction. Oliver, so emphatically, raises real issues of government control, economic injustice, child trafficking, and suicide with emotion and power. Our generations anthem!
Just people talking about the problem and the universal agreement is so important. "They think you don't know, but I know that you do!" So many think that if its so easy to see and things stay the same it's because they are alone. It's because the loudest voices project that you are a conspiracy theorist if you think a certain way THAT MOST AMERICANS DO.
Listened to this yesterday, then spent an hour listening to his other music, and it set my soul on fire! Oliver Anthony is the voice of the working classes in your country and mine 🇬🇧
I've only seen one negative review. The woman said this was just his perspective and that doesn't mean anyone else feels that way. Probably an out of touch liberal. I stopped the review and clicked dislike and left.
I'm a 62 year old white man and people should see the system we have wants to divide us - this song speaks from the heart. I truly believe he is blessed by God to send this message (and others) to us all. God uses His people like this. At a recent concert he read from Psalm 37. Read it and know His word is encouragement to His people. God speaks through Oliver's lyrics.
He said he teamed up with RadioWV and they expected he’d get maybe a few hundred thousand views on TH-cam for it but it’s blown up way beyond their expectations. He’s extremely humble and has turned down an $8M album deal. Strong convictions and I have a ton of respect for him.
He kicked DC azz right in the dirt Luv this guy hes a factory worker who was depressed drinking drugs and pissed off hes very humble and had no clue his song in his own yard by the way would go as far as it did. He did his songs on his cell phone until 2 days ago he didnt even have social media. He refers to minors on Epstien island he speaks for people all over the world a 3 minute song that brought people from all over regardless of color or country together he sang what we all think and i love it.
Probably the most powerful song written in over 50 years. It is uniting people against the abusive power class running the country for their own enrichment at the expense of the nation. And it ain't just in America. Some are saying he started a revolution. His music certainly is revolutionary. 🎯 The records labels are groveling to sign him. He has turned down 8 million on the spot for signing. He is still living in a trailer on a little bit of land singing in local venues.🤠
Thank you for pointing this out. The apostle Paul never would have imagined that God would use him, of all people for such a blessing to mankind that He did.
The original posting on the Radio WV TH-cam channel is at over 16 million views in the 5 days since it was posted. 5 of the 10 richest counties in the US are the "collar" counties around DC, 4 in Virginia and 1 in Maryland. Have viewed several dozen reactions over the past few days, from as far away as South Africa. This has struck a chord globally.
This young man is speaking from his heart and soul. I know that most people can relate to everything he is saying. Let's hope the politicians are listening.💗💗💗💗
we protect him by looking out for our fellow working class in our own backyard. Class solidarity is difficult but crucial. culture wars, race, etc are all tools of distraction to keep us from fighting as one people.
Oliver Anthony is golden!! I think the conversation we need to be having is getting dark money out of politics, term limits for these congressman/representative and Supreme Court Justice Reform.
This guy was offered a 8+ million contract to sign. However if he had signed he wouldn’t have been put this on a record. He walked away. There is a s another video where he sits down and introduces himself and gives his backstory, the good and very bad he went through. He laid out everything so nothing is hidden.
This is the battle cry of our lifetime. This song reaches straight through your being and rips your soul out. I cried. And yes, it is time we rise against the tyranny.
Please google him. In june he was an unknown and did a show to 20 people, This song came out on August 07/23. Two week later he did a show in the same place a the one in june an had thousands. Also this the first time he used a microphone, all others were recorded with his phone.
I worked for 51 years (now retired) in the construction industry both in the field and in the office, but for a lot of years for bullshit pay so this song resonates with me. I also served active duty in the U.S Army from 1967 to 1970 ( 1 year in Vietnam - $64/month combat pay, but never saw real combat), for bullshit pay, so again, this song resonates with me. I hope to hear more from Oliver Anthony.
The modern working mans anthem 👏 cant listen to this without welling up. I'm ashamed of the country my son is growing up in. We need to take our country back from evil
I think he was just expressing the pain and desperation he was feeling for himself!! Only that most people can relate to EVERYTHING he was feeling and saying. Thank you Anthony!
I am reaching out to shows like yours. regarding the song, "Rich Men North Of Richmond", by Oliver Anthony. My thought is we play this song at noon EST on Labor Day (Sept. 4th). Hopefully we can make this a worldwide event because it is applicable to all nations. This is a uniting song which we badly need as a nation and world today.
Nope, he didn't know he was going viral with this song. All of his songs that I've seen are in his back farmyard. He had something like 100 followers on TH-cam before this song hit the internet. He now was 244K followers.
You do realize they tried to shut him down by offering him an EIGHT MILLION DOLLAR music deal, right? Believe it or not, he turned them down. Apparently, according to him, this was done in his back yard and he and the guy from RadioWV had no idea this would go viral. Amazing voice. Amazing lyrics. Amazing Appalachian music style. I hope he has the courage and tenacity to stand strong and protect HIS purpose.
Song hits hard and I'm a Brit. It's time we all, whoever we are, got over left/right divisions and recognised what unites us, whatever that might be. Too many people so ideologically set that we all just get minced by those who have a vested interest in keeping us all split. What a voice, what a song.
Chris aka Oliver is 30 days sober at the time of this recording. Draven from RadioWV recorded this in Chris’s back yard. This is Chris’s first time singing into a mic. Draven and Chris were hoping for maybe 300k views. 🤯
The "media" is saying he's singing Qanon rhetoric, of course. But this is a damn American Anthem for people that actually freaking work in this country 🙄 God Bless America 🇺🇸 ❤
This song resonates with the everyday man. They think we’re stupid and they are trying to keep us that way. Great reaction and great artist and lyrics. Such a catchy song.
"Rich Men, North of Richmond" is an ooooooooooooold Southern Slang for "DC".. as it is literally directly North (and just a smidge east) of Richmond Virginia. Oliver apparently has played a few times right down the road from me. (well few hours drive, but close enough). 2 weeks ago he performed to 20 people. This song went viral mid-week last week, this past sunday, he performed again, this time though, there was nearly 5000+ people there.
47yo, war veteran, double dad, married grown man of 6ft5 230pound but here i sit and cry like a baby listening to this dude's song, thx so much for this
He has 3 songs on I tunes top 10. No musician with all money backing has ever done that. Before this happened he was struggling with alcoholism. He dropped to his knees asked God for help eith that and direction and 30 days later he's here.
I can't remember the last time a song touch my soul the way this man did! Amen Oliver and may God protect your soul from record labels! The tentacles will come to shut you down!
I don't know the truth behind it but I read online that he had turned down $8,000,000 from some record producing company. Don't recall if it was a contract for him or an album or ownership of the song but either way for a poor man to turn it down impressed me. And I've also been hearing people online saying that somewhere it was trending that this was a racist song and something to do with it being a Nazi theme song or something. That's obviously some gaslighting brought to you by our friends that are the Rich Men North of Richmond he is speaking about. LMAO
Thanks for the very thoughtful reaction. It only gets better if we ALL are better - and stand together. BTW, the view count on this seems impossibly low -- more likes than total views
This has become the worldwide anthem of the working class. This song is resonating with so many people around the globe. Regardless of race ethnicity, or nationality, we are all being screwed by those in authority. They don't want us all uniting so they do their best to keep us divided and fighting each other over their meaningless manufactured divisions pumped 24/7 through the media and into our consciousness. Right or Left, they are two wings of the same bird, serving the same masters. Turn off the media lies, get outside and touch grass, and talk with those in your community that they tell you are your opposition. You will find that we are not all that different from each other and not as divided as they want you to believe. People unite. One love 🫶
The first stanza in the Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson: By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. Oliver Anthony, also a farmer now, I believe, just fired the song heard round the world!! God bless and protect him!! ❤🙏
Thanks for reacting to this song/video, I am a veteran and our country needs to get back on track, I love my fellow person and would have died for them in battle but for some reason politicians want to divide us, thanks Oliver Anthony for putting TRUTH in the song!
A song for the WORLD The voice and MESSAGE for billions of people all around the globe I am a black man 45yrs in UK married with 2 daughters and this song brought me to tears.. The song hits in the stomach like a train going nowhere I heard it should be used as an Anthem for the common HUMAN irrespective of colour,race,gender age EVERYBODY....... You climb higher Oliver the WORLD has your back Brother ❤2ALL StaySafe ✌👍🤜🏽
Wow that's powerful, hey, did anyone notice how far this man sang away from the microphone? I guess it takes a powerful voice to spread such a truthful message. Lord bless him.
This is one of those songs that can resonate with everyone. My dad is a hard right republican, I’m a hard leftist (not liberal/democrat) and as people who are both part of the working class in the south it hit us both the same way. It’s not a question of party, race, affiliation or anything. It’s the rich keeping down the poor
GREAT SONG and speaks from a real down to earth blue collar worker.❤ Take it to the real worker on a country tune and it's reaching the top. I have 😍 been there when I lived in WV where I left behind good memories but found my place in Florida ,where things are going great. Good 🎵 song. Keep them coming.
This man single-handedly destroyed cultural racism with one song. When we all unite under government oppression, we become one.
Time to unite. We had enough division.
And the Rich Men North of Richmond absolutely hate him for that. They want us divided and hating one another so they can control us. This changes everything and they don't like it.
"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
@@DjWellDressedMan That's not at all what he was saying. He was in NO WAY attacking the poor. He was saying the money should be going to people in the streets with nothing to eat, not fat lazy people milking welfare. He was literally saying the tax money should be going to the hungry, not to the fat who spend all your tax dollars on "fudge balls".
You got a bad take dude.
@@DjWellDressedManBragg is not even familiar with the right context here, let alone the meaning or activism in the lyrics. His comparisons are several (a dozen? A score?) of years outdated and, in this conversation, he’s effing clueless.
Its not a country song, it's a song FOR the country!
Love your white shepherd mine lived til 16yrs miss her everyday.
For the world.
AMEN!
@cynthianorton1440 THNX! She's still a baby (3 years old) her name is Luna. Sorry you lost your baby
Absolutely!!!!
This isn't a "summer anthem". It's a GLOBAL PHENOMENON!
Jesus said : Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites ! You shut the Kingdom of Heaven in mens faces. He started a revolution.
This is our anthem brother!!!
That's what the man is about our wonderful government people need to get there Head out there assess it kills me to look at people looking at this video and have no clue what the man is taking about
That's a fact !
The Common Sense pamphlet of our time.
He had no idea a week ago that his life was going to be changed forever. He is now on the list playing at the Blue Ridge Music Festival in Virginia, the biggest Rock/Metal festival in the entire Country. A Folk singer, playing at a Metal festival..... the man has captured the feelings of the Country.
I didn't know that. Thank you for sharing.
I'll be there! Can't wait!
@danielhaas9612. I'd love to be able to attend that Festival to see Oliver Anthony's reaction when the crowds see him hit the stage! That'll be a historic time in music history, especially to be welcomed by a rock/metal crowd like you say. Always wanted to live in the South, but no, here I be, in Minnesota.
@@KiloCee That is so refreshing to hear! Our own government removed the "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance to satisfy their master who apparently leads them around by a leash. God Bless this man!
He captured the world...
Not just in this country, this is being received worldwide with the same response.
Yep, UK 🇬🇧 cuz here, sharing OA’s truth bombs this side of the pond, purchased on iTunes too, this ought be being played on loop in all government buildings, world over 😊
Who could have thought printing endless money would have this effect....I guess most parents. Imagine if you one day told you sons age 8 to 20 : Those of you with assets can now get money for nothing and buy more assets....and get more money to buy more assets...and get more money.......
The whole west feels it
Same in Ireland 🇮🇪
💯🔥
As a retired enlisted and officer, if the rich men north of Richmond want to know what I think, well here you go. Also, he had the balls to call out politicians and their neglect of miners/minors.
Thank you for your service
Love your point of view. One correction. Neglect of miners and abuse of minors
@@thefeelproject6964🎯🎯🎯
@@thefeelproject6964 Hells, it could be both. It's damn good wordplay that way.
@@DecidelyUnethical it's not both. he made it clear in an interview: neglect the miners and engage in sex abuse with epstein
Praying God protects Oliver from the “Rich men, north of Richmond!
He didn’t say anything 100% of america already knows.
Yeah but when a message is spread that awakens what people already know those Rich Men North Of Richmond don't want or like that.@@buckleft2317
Amen!
@@buckleft2317but this man has a target on him now, the industry, the rich men north of Richmond, he seems like a smart guy, heard he lives off the map and he’s not rushing into any contracts, pray this guy stays safe
@@zene8001 So you're saying Oliver Anthony didn't kill himself?
Just a man standing in front of his deer stand with his dogs, a guitar, a microphone, and a camera laying out facts with all his soul…..
You can hear the bugs in the forest
‘Young men putting themselves six feet in the ground,
Cause all this damn country does is keep kicking them down’
Hardest hitting words in his straight forth message.
Yes!
Yea, I am a 59 year old guy who did 28 years in the Navy and this line brought tears to my eyes. I pray for this generation of young men everyday, they need purpose and have the right to be MEN.
With almost universal sentiment... We're being manipulated. Kept quiet, distracted, off topic. None of the men/women North of Richmond should be in power at this point. Get your pitchforks and torches ready we're collectively hitting the ends of our ropes.
It hit me hard too. The first place my mind and heart went was the incredible suicide rate of our young veterans. 😢
@@keimahane I think every 1st reaction commentator I’ve watched on this song has totally skipped over those words. Like people get stuck on him calling out people using food stamps to buy fudge rounds, and miss that he is pointing out military suicides too. 3 different kinds of people in the same verse.
And out of the wilderness came a voice, crying from the mountaintop. A once in a generation song. God bless you Oliver Anthony.
My husband is a vet. The VA has his on so many meds for his “mentals” he doesn’t know up from down. He just clocks in to work until he sleeps. Lost my 19 step son to suicide a few years ago. I went to the grocery store and saw an old woman crying because she couldn’t afford her meager groceries. People in food stamps driving new cars eat better than those that have busted their ass. Our schools ruin our children. What is happening? Silent no longer!
PREACH!
Anyone listening to this song, rich, or poor any color on the wheel hast to feel it they can’t misunderstand it. It’s such a truth song. Keep this man singing and writing. we need old souls like him who can share with out divide dividing us.
I pray things get better for you and your family God bless you.
So sorry to hear about your situation. Prayers to you and your family. Stay strong !
I’m sorry for your situation. I understand. I’ve lived it.
3 minutes of pain, truth & freedom of speech.
I agree! I was hit at "living in a new world with an old soul"
"I wish politicians would look out for miners, and not just minors on an island somewhere..." Yep.
Yeah, goes for whoopi and hollywood to
Exactly!
Best line I've ever heard x
I wasn’t sure what that was referring to can some one explain please 😅 from the uk aha
Not enough TH-camrs are talking about this line. They don’t identify with it as much as taxes. But it’s more important in my opinion.
This man has gone from never being heard of by hardly anyone to having 9 songs in the top 20, and 4 in the top 10, this one being #1 and having Jamey Johnson join him on stage in his hometown square. And being a worldwide hit literally overnight. He definitely hit a cord with everyone who's tired of all the nonsense. I've heard from friends of mine in various countries overseas, Australia, Japan, S Korea, Thailand and The Philippines. They have told me the locals there love this song to. It's even hit home with them. I'm a 20-year Navy Veteran Been a truck driver since 07. Not much gets me teary eyed and gives me goose bumps. But this song does, each and every time I have heard it.
My neighbor is from Vietnam. Her parents are still there. They love this song after she explained some of the references. This is just incredible.
He hit number one in Ireland too!! 😂 Crazy stuff
Spitting Facts and Truths . 24 yrs in Military and working a part time to help support my family. Once Retired still had to work 2 jobs. No matter your Political affiliation
Our brothers are living on the street eating hand-to-mouth while our government gives money to foreign countries and welcomes all these illegals into our country when they don't take care of our own
I for one don't care these illegals are sleeping on the street all I can say to these illegals is tough shit
Americans Come First. We served our country and the illegals get treated better.
Hotel illegals get $350 perdium a day man woman child our tax dollars going to illegals instead of fellow vets .
Preach, brother!
I feel sorry for my son...if what you tell is the truth... he'll be like you someday 😢
Thank you for your service, sir
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.
He is so right, words can heal or they can kill. They net makes it to easy to run off at the mouth, if they were outside and in someones face and got punched in it theyd close it., But they have the safety of doing it from home now.
We need to return to The Father and The Savior, His Son Jesus before its too late.
It's coming QUICKLY, we're must be Ready.
Shalom ✝️
I disagree. You ar a brave man who I believe is better than you know. You have done a great thing by singing this song and you are an awesome musician with a awesome voice
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Absolute GOLD! A song that can bring us all together to create real change. Great reaction.
Oliver, so emphatically, raises real issues of government control, economic injustice, child trafficking, and suicide with emotion and power.
Our generations anthem!
Just people talking about the problem and the universal agreement is so important. "They think you don't know, but I know that you do!" So many think that if its so easy to see and things stay the same it's because they are alone. It's because the loudest voices project that you are a conspiracy theorist if you think a certain way THAT MOST AMERICANS DO.
Music is the first step to a revolution. History repeats itself.
True@@Cp3659
Gold that’s the ticket. We need to back up our fiat currency with it once again
Listened to this yesterday, then spent an hour listening to his other music, and it set my soul on fire! Oliver Anthony is the voice of the working classes in your country and mine 🇬🇧
Wow,ditto i did the same
This song touches everyone who listens to it, to the extent that they are in touch with their own souls, and still can feel their hearts.
100%
Amen!
The song is number 2 on iTunes in the UK! 👍🏻😁🏴
That's amazing. Thanks for letting us know.
Really? That's cool. I guess the world is hurting. I hope it becomes #1!
It needs to get to Number 1, such a wonderful powerful voice.
It’s number 1 now for a few days 👍🏻😁🏴@@gazzab3224
Number one for a few days now 👍🏻😁🏴@@jonathanmcniel6483
Protect this man at all costs. He maybe found dead or just disappear
Or they will do their best to corrupt him
He better not
@c0ckhead684 Too late, they already tried to label him as antisemitic.
This song will never disappear it's part of my heart
I am a retired Marine, I have a similar dog, I love good old America, and I will protect this boy with my body. The boy is right.
This is a Rally Cry for the Working Class People. People of all races, colors and Countries are feeling this song.
Yep,this song is going to bring the people together in a massive way,it has already started.
George Carlin said "a job is where you work just hard enough not to get fired and you get paid just enough not to quit."
This song should touch anyone that hears it. If you don’t feel this song, you’re on the wrong side.🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸
I've only seen one negative review. The woman said this was just his perspective and that doesn't mean anyone else feels that way. Probably an out of touch liberal. I stopped the review and clicked dislike and left.
Shes probbly on welfare, section 8 and recieving a lot of food stamps so shes not worried about her paycheck😊
or shes a fckn lunatic teachin our kids@@davidrauch7896
@@davidrauch7896 Listen to the song again and watch his video explaining the song. He is not against welfare nor is he supporting the GOP.
He's not going away. He speaks for alot of us that just want to be left alone.
I'm a 62 year old white man and people should see the system we have wants to divide us - this song speaks from the heart. I truly believe he is blessed by God to send this message (and others) to us all. God uses His people like this. At a recent concert he read from Psalm 37. Read it and know His word is encouragement to His people. God speaks through Oliver's lyrics.
He said he teamed up with RadioWV and they expected he’d get maybe a few hundred thousand views on TH-cam for it but it’s blown up way beyond their expectations. He’s extremely humble and has turned down an $8M album deal. Strong convictions and I have a ton of respect for him.
Me too
In the 80's until today it was Lee Greenwoods "God bless the USA'. Now we have a new anthem. Anthony Oliver's "RMNOR". Amazing.
He sings the truth straight from the heart he's pure country no bull.
Amazing… straight from the heart. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
He kicked DC azz right in the dirt Luv this guy hes a factory worker who was depressed drinking drugs and pissed off hes very humble and had no clue his song in his own yard by the way would go as far as it did. He did his songs on his cell phone until 2 days ago he didnt even have social media. He refers to minors on Epstien island he speaks for people all over the world a 3 minute song that brought people from all over regardless of color or country together he sang what we all think and i love it.
Couldn't have put it better myself.The tide is turning,this is uniting people globally
Probably the most powerful song written in over 50 years. It is uniting people against the abusive power class running the country for their own enrichment at the expense of the nation. And it ain't just in America.
Some are saying he started a revolution. His music certainly is revolutionary. 🎯
The records labels are groveling to sign him. He has turned down 8 million on the spot for signing.
He is still living in a trailer on a little bit of land singing in local venues.🤠
He didn't know, he just trusted God. This song came to an honest, open heart begging for mercy.
Amen.
Thank you for pointing this out. The apostle Paul never would have imagined that God would use him, of all people for such a blessing to mankind that He did.
The original posting on the Radio WV TH-cam channel is at over 16 million views in the 5 days since it was posted.
5 of the 10 richest counties in the US are the "collar" counties around DC, 4 in Virginia and 1 in Maryland.
Have viewed several dozen reactions over the past few days, from as far away as South Africa. This has struck a chord globally.
Yep, a friend in Australia sent it to me in New Zealand
This young man is speaking from his heart and soul. I know that most people can relate to everything he is saying. Let's hope the politicians are listening.💗💗💗💗
This is not a country song, this is a song for the country. We cry cause we all feel this!
We need to stand together and protect this man
we protect him by looking out for our fellow working class in our own backyard. Class solidarity is difficult but crucial. culture wars, race, etc are all tools of distraction to keep us from fighting as one people.
“Taxes ought not pay, for your bags of Fudge Rounds”.
Best fucking lyric EVER
It absolutely makes the point. It’s awesome when you watch the reaction videos when they hear it
Oliver Anthony is golden!! I think the conversation we need to be having is getting dark money out of politics, term limits for these congressman/representative and Supreme Court Justice Reform.
This guy was offered a 8+ million contract to sign. However if he had signed he wouldn’t have been put this on a record. He walked away. There is a s another video where he sits down and introduces himself and gives his backstory, the good and very bad he went through. He laid out everything so nothing is hidden.
This is the battle cry of our lifetime. This song reaches straight through your being and rips your soul out. I cried. And yes, it is time we rise against the tyranny.
Here here!
This was the first song he recorded on anything better than his cell phone! I recommend also "Virginia" and "I've Gotta Get Sober."
There's a video of him on his TH-cam channel filmed the night before this dropped. It's very eye opening.
Drop a link @purpleaj3232
Yep...also his video called moving forward shows his character
Thank y’all for serving..!!!!!!!
Great show. Love y’all Keep up the good work
Please google him.
In june he was an unknown and did a show to 20 people,
This song came out on August 07/23. Two week later he did a show in the same place a the one in june an had thousands.
Also this the first time he used a microphone, all others were recorded with his phone.
He is such an authentic human being. His words ring true to ALL Americans and have also taken the world by storm. He's the real deal.
I worked for 51 years (now retired) in the construction industry both in the field and in the office, but for a lot of years for bullshit pay so this song resonates with me. I also served active duty in the U.S Army from 1967 to 1970 ( 1 year in Vietnam - $64/month combat pay, but never saw real combat), for bullshit pay, so again, this song resonates with me. I hope to hear more from Oliver Anthony.
"Living in a New World with an Old Soul!" WOW!!!!!
The modern working mans anthem 👏 cant listen to this without welling up. I'm ashamed of the country my son is growing up in. We need to take our country back from evil
16 million views in 7 days, global impact, and this was the first recording with a real mic! He only used his phone before. 😊
People are hurting ... he sings for many. God Bless him
I think he was just expressing the pain and desperation he was feeling for himself!! Only that most people can relate to EVERYTHING he was feeling and saying. Thank you Anthony!
I am reaching out to shows like yours. regarding the song, "Rich Men North Of Richmond", by Oliver Anthony. My thought is we play this song at noon EST on Labor Day (Sept. 4th). Hopefully we can make this a worldwide event because it is applicable to all nations. This is a uniting song which we badly need as a nation and world today.
Labor day would be a great day to show the Rich Men North of Richmond, who really runs this nation.
Yes, we have lived with political division long enough!
Yep@@banzaibill4290
Here here@@debbiewells2851
This song brought me to your channel. I felt this, please protect this man!
He's number 1 on Itunes all genre chart. Good grief.
Love this song it’s the truth we’re all facing
Nope, he didn't know he was going viral with this song. All of his songs that I've seen are in his back farmyard. He had something like 100 followers on TH-cam before this song hit the internet. He now was 244K followers.
You do realize they tried to shut him down by offering him an EIGHT MILLION DOLLAR music deal, right? Believe it or not, he turned them down. Apparently, according to him, this was done in his back yard and he and the guy from RadioWV had no idea this would go viral. Amazing voice. Amazing lyrics. Amazing Appalachian music style. I hope he has the courage and tenacity to stand strong and protect HIS purpose.
That’s just pure country boy talent
Song hits hard and I'm a Brit. It's time we all, whoever we are, got over left/right divisions and recognised what unites us, whatever that might be. Too many people so ideologically set that we all just get minced by those who have a vested interest in keeping us all split. What a voice, what a song.
Chris aka Oliver is 30 days sober at the time of this recording. Draven from RadioWV recorded this in Chris’s back yard. This is Chris’s first time singing into a mic. Draven and Chris were hoping for maybe 300k views. 🤯
im neither republican or democrat i made a few mistakes in my youth . but i love my country we all in my family served for our rights and freedoms
He usually goes around performing at farmers markets. Very small audiences. Wow dude. You made me cry.
Saw him at Morris farm stand 2 weeks ago!!
Have you paid attention to the rest of the world? Oliver's song is GLOBAL.
The "media" is saying he's singing Qanon rhetoric, of course. But this is a damn American Anthem for people that actually freaking work in this country 🙄 God Bless America 🇺🇸 ❤
Best song ever!!! True facts!!
This song resonates with the everyday man. They think we’re stupid and they are trying to keep us that way. Great reaction and great artist and lyrics. Such a catchy song.
Yep,he has started something,i can feel it
"Rich Men, North of Richmond" is an ooooooooooooold Southern Slang for "DC".. as it is literally directly North (and just a smidge east) of Richmond Virginia.
Oliver apparently has played a few times right down the road from me. (well few hours drive, but close enough). 2 weeks ago he performed to 20 people. This song went viral mid-week last week, this past sunday, he performed again, this time though, there was nearly 5000+ people there.
When you talked about the top charts he genuinely hit #1 globally for I believe 2-3 weeks all genres all languages #1
47yo, war veteran, double dad, married grown man of 6ft5 230pound but here i sit and cry like a baby listening to this dude's song, thx so much for this
6 songs in the top 25
And his Spotify monthly listener count is now up to 1.6M and then some.
🙌🙌🙌👌 🇺🇸
Now has 9 in the top 25!
Do you know names of songs? And top 25 in country or another genre? I'm sorry, I'm confused and want to understand to listen.
@@cuttnhorse2013 where? When I look at Spotify it doesn’t show him?
He's awesome!! Another Virginian ❤ this Vet highly recommends!! ❤🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
He has 3 songs on I tunes top 10. No musician with all money backing has ever done that. Before this happened he was struggling with alcoholism. He dropped to his knees asked God for help eith that and direction and 30 days later he's here.
This man is pissed and wants everyone to know! We Americans are fed up.😊
For people like me and for people like you!!!!!!
See how RED his face got?!! That's raw passion.
I can't remember the last time a song touch my soul the way this man did! Amen Oliver and may God protect your soul from record labels! The tentacles will come to shut you down!
Oliver Anthony for President
he's been writing and playing in nature for years. had 8 of his songs in the top 20 the other day.
there is video of him playing it for the first time since it went viral.. in 4 days. His face is priceless.
That guitar is actually a Gretsch G9220 Bobtail Round-neck Mahogany Body Resonator….it’s beautiful!
I’ve lost count of the reactions to this song that I’ve watched but I get chills every single time.
People shouldn’t fear the government, the government should fear the people.
Military, patriot country boys have never been more appealing. Enjoyed the reaction. #Laserbeams
Proud US Navy Vet here. Tears to my eyes. So true. When the everyman loses faith, the politicians better wake up to this man sending a flare up.
I don't know the truth behind it but I read online that he had turned down $8,000,000 from some record producing company. Don't recall if it was a contract for him or an album or ownership of the song but either way for a poor man to turn it down impressed me. And I've also been hearing people online saying that somewhere it was trending that this was a racist song and something to do with it being a Nazi theme song or something. That's obviously some gaslighting brought to you by our friends that are the Rich Men North of Richmond he is speaking about. LMAO
Thanks for the very thoughtful reaction. It only gets better if we ALL are better - and stand together.
BTW, the view count on this seems impossibly low -- more likes than total views
This has become the worldwide anthem of the working class. This song is resonating with so many people around the globe. Regardless of race ethnicity, or nationality, we are all being screwed by those in authority. They don't want us all uniting so they do their best to keep us divided and fighting each other over their meaningless manufactured divisions pumped 24/7 through the media and into our consciousness. Right or Left, they are two wings of the same bird, serving the same masters. Turn off the media lies, get outside and touch grass, and talk with those in your community that they tell you are your opposition. You will find that we are not all that different from each other and not as divided as they want you to believe. People unite. One love 🫶
Protect Your Purpose love your Channel 😍 You folks are true patriots.... God bless you and this channel..many many success..🙏🙏🙏
The first stanza in the Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson:
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.
Oliver Anthony, also a farmer now, I believe, just fired the song heard round the world!! God bless and protect him!! ❤🙏
One man … one resonator guitar … Delivered with heart and soul … simple truth against the lying media and the politicians
Summer Anthem - no
Song of the year - YES
I haven’t heard a song hit this hard in years. My goodness
You can see the pain in this man and these vets
Personally he's on his own chart ,theres no music today in any genre that hits home harder than a couple of his songs, listen to I want to go home
Thanks for reacting to this song/video, I am a veteran and our country needs to get back on track, I love my fellow person and would have died for them in battle but for some reason politicians want to divide us, thanks Oliver Anthony for putting TRUTH in the song!
Thank you for playing and discussing Oliver’s hit song, it hits the nail on the nail on the head in many ways. Definitely the summer anthem. 👏👏👏😎
A song for the WORLD
The voice and MESSAGE for billions of people all around the globe
I am a black man 45yrs in UK married with 2 daughters and this song brought me to tears..
The song hits in the stomach like a train going nowhere
I heard it should be used as an Anthem for the common HUMAN irrespective of colour,race,gender age EVERYBODY.......
You climb higher Oliver the WORLD has your back Brother
❤2ALL
StaySafe ✌👍🤜🏽
Wow that's powerful, hey, did anyone notice how far this man sang away from the microphone? I guess it takes a powerful voice to spread such a truthful message. Lord bless him.
This is one of those songs that can resonate with everyone. My dad is a hard right republican, I’m a hard leftist (not liberal/democrat) and as people who are both part of the working class in the south it hit us both the same way. It’s not a question of party, race, affiliation or anything. It’s the rich keeping down the poor
GREAT SONG and speaks from a real down to earth blue collar worker.❤ Take it to the real worker on a country tune and it's reaching the top. I have 😍
been there when I lived in WV where I left behind good memories but found my place in Florida ,where things are going great. Good 🎵 song. Keep them coming.
lots of people feel his words.. that speaks for the most part of the world.