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  • CopperC Copper

    A new folk song by an unknown artist has bumped Jason Aldean's "Try That In A Small Town" from the top of one country music chart after an acoustic performance of the song went viral.

    "an anthem for 80+ million Americans who have been smeared, ignored, mocked, slandered, and robbed by their own government."

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/blue-collar-political-anthem-rich-men-north-richmond-bumps-jason-aldean-song-top-spot-chart

    Link to video

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    @Copper said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

    A new folk song by an unknown artist has bumped Jason Aldean's "Try That In A Small Town" from the top of one country music chart after an acoustic performance of the song went viral.

    "an anthem for 80+ million Americans who have been smeared, ignored, mocked, slandered, and robbed by their own government."

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/blue-collar-political-anthem-rich-men-north-richmond-bumps-jason-aldean-song-top-spot-chart

    Link to video

    Bro, aren't you from Boston?

    Please love yourself.

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      I've been 72 miles south of Richmond for the last 4 years.

      Assimilation continues.

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        Link to video

        Education is extremely important.

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          Am I the only one that thought his singing was a little annoying and yell-y? It's also whiny lyrics...like, live your life and stop worrying about politics or the wealth of others. I actually really enjoy folk music but I don't think I could listen to that a second time. Instead, let's listen to good music like: https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/231350

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            Small world, I bought an apple pie last week at that farmer's market in Currituck, NC where Oliver Anthony is reading the bible and singing.

            We stop at that market every year to get pies and vegetables on our way the the OBX for a week on the beach. They usually have a live band.

            The crowd is always large on summer weekends. This is the only road into the OBX from the north. The crowd is big enough that they need a couple people directing traffic at the portable toilets.

            You can just see the bridge to OBX in the distance. I was headed in the other direction when this was taken, 2 days ago.

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            • 89th8 89th

              Am I the only one that thought his singing was a little annoying and yell-y? It's also whiny lyrics...like, live your life and stop worrying about politics or the wealth of others. I actually really enjoy folk music but I don't think I could listen to that a second time. Instead, let's listen to good music like: https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/231350

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              @89th said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

              Am I the only one that thought his singing was a little annoying and yell-y? It's also whiny lyrics...like, live your life and stop worrying about politics or the wealth of others. I actually really enjoy folk music but I don't think I could listen to that a second time. Instead, let's listen to good music like: https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/231350

              When I first came across it, I wasn't sure whether it was parody, but after a minute or so I got that it was a serious song. After recalibrating to appreciate it as music, I thought it was catchy enough and I've listened to it a couple times.

              Education is extremely important.

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                Oliver Anthony is from Farmville, VA. Is that a small town?

                Here is a picture I took of the Farmville airport 15 years ago.

                Yes, that is an airport right about in the middle there. No office, no hangars, just some cement and a few parking spaces, definitely rural.

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                • CopperC Copper

                  Oliver Anthony is from Farmville, VA. Is that a small town?

                  Here is a picture I took of the Farmville airport 15 years ago.

                  Yes, that is an airport right about in the middle there. No office, no hangars, just some cement and a few parking spaces, definitely rural.

                  07f997a7-c705-437d-85ac-a59d291e9d7c-image.png

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                  @Copper said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

                  Oliver Anthony is from Farmville, VA. Is that a small town?

                  Here is a picture I took of the Farmville airport 15 years ago.

                  Yes, that is an airport right about in the middle there. No office, no hangars, just some cement and a few parking spaces, definitely rural.

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                  They've only got one university, so I suppose it's "rural" by Boston standards.

                  Please love yourself.

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                    That was a good zingAH

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                    • 89th8 89th

                      Am I the only one that thought his singing was a little annoying and yell-y? It's also whiny lyrics...like, live your life and stop worrying about politics or the wealth of others. I actually really enjoy folk music but I don't think I could listen to that a second time. Instead, let's listen to good music like: https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/231350

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                      @89th said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

                      Am I the only one that thought his singing was a little annoying and yell-y? It's also whiny lyrics...like, live your life and stop worrying about politics or the wealth of others. I actually really enjoy folk music but I don't think I could listen to that a second time. Instead, let's listen to good music like: https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/231350

                      Born with a silver foot in your mouth?

                      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                      • 89th8 89th

                        Am I the only one that thought his singing was a little annoying and yell-y? It's also whiny lyrics...like, live your life and stop worrying about politics or the wealth of others. I actually really enjoy folk music but I don't think I could listen to that a second time. Instead, let's listen to good music like: https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/231350

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                        @89th said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

                        Am I the only one that thought his singing was a little annoying and yell-y? It's also whiny lyrics...like, live your life and stop worrying about politics or the wealth of others. I actually really enjoy folk music but I don't think I could listen to that a second time. Instead, let's listen to good music like: https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/231350

                        I'm not the biggest fan of the details, either, but I think a better question would be, "why would a guy who kinda sucks at performance get shared around so quickly?"

                        He isn't making the rounds because of his use of vibrato.

                        Everything is anthropology.

                        Please love yourself.

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                          I don’t know enough country to know how common this is, but 5 minutes ago this would have had a left-leaning valence, not right.

                          Only non-witches get due process.

                          • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                          • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                            I don’t know enough country to know how common this is, but 5 minutes ago this would have had a left-leaning valence, not right.

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                            @jon-nyc said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

                            I don’t know enough country to know how common this is, but 5 minutes ago this would have had a left-leaning valence, not right.

                            I don't think that's true. If Merle Haggard, Hank Jr, Jerry Reed, Dolly Parton, etc. are any indication, you can't listen to country music without hearing about working class struggles. But their music has always been appreciated much more heavily by the right than the left.

                            In other words, the style of music sets the politics, not the message.

                            As a contrast, rap music is (1) also very "masculine" in its elements (celebrates community pride and traditions, is boastful, etc), (2) is all about working class struggles and (3) is listened to almost exclusively by a left-leaning audience.

                            Please love yourself.

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                              Yep.

                              “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                              • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                                @jon-nyc said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

                                I don’t know enough country to know how common this is, but 5 minutes ago this would have had a left-leaning valence, not right.

                                I don't think that's true. If Merle Haggard, Hank Jr, Jerry Reed, Dolly Parton, etc. are any indication, you can't listen to country music without hearing about working class struggles. But their music has always been appreciated much more heavily by the right than the left.

                                In other words, the style of music sets the politics, not the message.

                                As a contrast, rap music is (1) also very "masculine" in its elements (celebrates community pride and traditions, is boastful, etc), (2) is all about working class struggles and (3) is listened to almost exclusively by a left-leaning audience.

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                                @Aqua-Letifer said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

                                @jon-nyc said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

                                I don’t know enough country to know how common this is, but 5 minutes ago this would have had a left-leaning valence, not right.

                                I don't think that's true. If Merle Haggard, Hank Jr, Jerry Reed, Dolly Parton, etc. are any indication, you can't listen to country music without hearing about working class struggles. But their music has always been appreciated much more heavily by the right than the left.

                                In other words, the style of music sets the politics, not the message.

                                As a contrast, rap music is (1) also very "masculine" in its elements (celebrates community pride and traditions, is boastful, etc), (2) is all about working class struggles and (3) is listened to almost exclusively by a left-leaning audience.

                                "Black culture" has always been a carve-out of the leftist agenda, and the fit has never been an easy one. There's a great deal of looking the other way, and not thinking or talking about certain things.

                                Education is extremely important.

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                                • JollyJ Jolly

                                  @89th said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

                                  Am I the only one that thought his singing was a little annoying and yell-y? It's also whiny lyrics...like, live your life and stop worrying about politics or the wealth of others. I actually really enjoy folk music but I don't think I could listen to that a second time. Instead, let's listen to good music like: https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/231350

                                  Born with a silver foot in your mouth?

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                                  @Jolly said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

                                  @89th said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

                                  Am I the only one that thought his singing was a little annoying and yell-y? It's also whiny lyrics...like, live your life and stop worrying about politics or the wealth of others. I actually really enjoy folk music but I don't think I could listen to that a second time. Instead, let's listen to good music like: https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/post/231350

                                  Born with a silver foot in your mouth?

                                  I was born in the south, my parents didn't have money, and I'm not sure anything I said was a malapropism, so.... maybe I need to get my ears checked?

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                                    Meh.

                                    I’ll stay with Iris Dement’s Wasteland of the Free:

                                    Link to video

                                    Elbows up!

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                                      By the way, does he dye his beard? Or is that color mismatch something that happens to gingers?

                                      Only non-witches get due process.

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                                      • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                        By the way, does he dye his beard? Or is that color mismatch something that happens to gingers?

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                                        @jon-nyc said in "Rich Men North of Richmond":

                                        By the way, does he dye his beard? Or is that color mismatch something that happens to gingers?

                                        Only when they’ve successfully acquired a soul.

                                        The Brad

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                                          It could be prematurely grey like a lot of beards.

                                          Only non-witches get due process.

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