Formerly unknown musician Oliver Anthony — whose real name is Christopher Anthony Lunsford — has released a new song following the overnight success of “Rich Men North of Richmond.”
thanks to social media, where a number of influential users, particularly in conservative media, began circulating the clip.
His song and message might have gone viral, but Anthony likes to think of himself as “just some idiot and his guitar,” according to a recent“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,” he shared. “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.
Oliver Anthony performs at Eagle Creek Golf Club and Grill in Moyock, NC, on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023.Anthony goes on to say how he hates the division that the internet has brought to the world, and that the internet is “a parasite that infects the minds of humans.” “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,” he added. “No editing, no agent, no bullshit … the style of music that we should have never gotten away from in the first place.”
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