What’s known about Anthony, who has a minimal news or paper trail up to this point, comes largely through a YouTube monologue he put up a few days before releasing “Rich Men.”
In that speech, he declares himself nonpartisan: “I sit pretty dead center down the aisle on politics and, always have,” Anthony says, facing the camera from behind the wheel. “I remember as a kid the conservatives wanting war, and me not understanding that. And I remember a lot of the controversies when the left took office, and it seems like, you know, both sides serve the same master. And that master is not someone of any good to the people of this country.
And yet non-fans may have to admit that, in the brief glimpses of him in public so far Anthony has a less belligerent, more conciliatory-seeming persona than that of, say, the perpetually glowering Aldean. This past week, in playing what was said to be his first public gig ever, at a farmer’s market, he promised to pose with each one of the thousands that showed up.
With Anthony becoming a phenom, Harris followed up and wrote that he felt “vindicated” -- as may many on the right who jumped off, say, the Childers bandwagon and now feel they have one of their own to embrace in ideology as well as sound. But for others who consider the demographics of where Anthony comes from, region-wise if not so much subgenre-wise, it’s not so startling to hear Appalachian music that takes a rightward view. And country musicWinston Marshall, the banjoist who became estranged from and eventually quit Mumford & Sons because of his right-leaning views, wrote a commentary for the American Spectator
Whatever point Marshall may have, it’s hard to escape the irony: a conservative commentator who loves a new artist is attacking a magazine for pointing out that the artist he loves is especially beloved by conservative commentators. It may not be the last irony that comes to the fore with the rise of Oliver Anthony.the complaining tone of “Rich Men North of Richmond.
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