Rich Men North of Richmond

That is an absolutely awesome song. Tugs at my heartstrings every time I hear it.

 

I remember reading someone in the music industry (I forget who) saying that when he first heard that song on his car radio, he became so emotional he had to pull over on the side of the road.

 

Welfare States south of Richmond

 

So now you don’t like poor people.

 

Country sensation Oliver Anthony making an estimated $40,000 a day from chart-topping music

 

All you have to do when you want to hear some good country music is listen to Roy Acuff singing "Wabash Cannonball." What more do you need? Some guy who complains about having to work so hard and he turns down an offer of 8 million dollars? Who wants to listen to an idiot?

 

That will buy a lot of fudge rounds

 

Yeah, all those guys in the 20s and 30s would have signed the shadiest contract possible or contracted to a quack medicine doctor's Mexican radio station like the Carter Family lol.

 

Now don’t you go talking bad about the Carter Family.

 

I don't know if the contract offer was shady or not. All I know is what someone said on this forum. I realize, of course, that you can believe less and less of what gets posted here, what passes for info being so much right-wing Trumpian BS. The long and short of it is, I really don't care. What I've heard of today's "country music" sucks, but that's just my opinion.

 

Apparently he said something innocuous about diversity and the right-wingers are turning against him

 

Look I'm sure some of the Dr. Brinkley goat testicle surgeries they helped advertise worked out

 

Even when you’re stealing songs, you still have to put food on the table

 

If that's true, just think, today they could advertise that Covid miracle cure called bleach. They were too far ahead of their time.

 

classic

 

I feel like many rock, hip hop and rap artists have music about hustling and how they're scrapping to hit it big. Then, they get rich in real life and their music celebrates and flaunts the excesses of their success. I suppose fans live vicariously through that like we do watching the movie Scarface or the Wolf of Wall Street.

Meanwhile, many country singers seem to sing about the daily grind, being underpaid, complaining about their boss or politicians, etc. Then, those artists get rich in real life but their music continues to be about their old life and cultivated to mirror the lives of blue collar, middle class folks.

This isn't a criticism, and maybe I'm way off. But I feel like there's something psychologically interesting here even if I'm not articulating it well.

 

Fox spent 3 hours hyping the song Rich Men North of Richmond before making it the first question at the debate



https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-ne...orth-richmond-making-it-first-question-debate

 

Fox News personalities are political televangelists, laughing all the way to the bank.

"I liked Martha's first question coming right out and asking about the Oliver Anthony song, because we can all relate to that song. And it's been number one for a reason.” - Ainsley Earnhardt