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Oliver Anthony 2 · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for our American mama. Dear mama, do you think
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  Oliver Anthony even needs a record deal? Well, let's ask our American mama.
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  Mama, Mama, and joining us now our American mama, Terry Netterville.
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  We we've talked about Oliver Anthony before with his song Richmond North of Richmond.
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  He's had several others that have made the top twenty of the iTunes charts.
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  This week, his song Richmond North of Richmond debut on the Billboard Hot
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  one hundred. It debuted at number one. I'm not surprised, Are you
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  serious? He said? He said a record that the Beatles couldn't set.
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  That's unreal that that Michael Jackson didn't set. Yeah, this is different.
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  They're they're calling him the people's champion. It's interesting. He is the He
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  truly is a champion for the people, all of us, because he is
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  speaking truth. He is spitting out facts that we we just all when we
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  when we listen to that song, it resonates to our core. Well,
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  he has a new one out. Take a listen. We're on the bring
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  of the next parlor, and I don't think nobody's praying no more I hain't
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  saying nine Nord for shorehanders. Down on my knee, begging the Lord take
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  me home. I want to go home. So the song is called I
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  want to go Home, begging the Lord to take me home. Yeah,
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  if it wasn't for his dog or the Lord, he'd be in a psyche
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  ward. I loved that line. I know, it's such a it's a
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  spiritual there's a spiritualness about his songs. You know. It reminds me actually
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  of the Beatitudes So Jesus. In Matthew, he gives a sermon on the
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  mount and he says, blessed are the beggars in spirit, And you get
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  the feeling listening to how he sings, in what he sings, he doesn't
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  he come across as somebody who's begging in the spirit. He does. In
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  fact, there's a like you can hear his voice, like there's a cry.
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  Yes, there's a whale in his Yeah, there's a pain and angst
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  in his voice that you can hear. And it resonates. I mean,
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  I know I keep saying that word, but it does. That's it just
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  absolutely resonates within our souls. And the more I listen because it's been fun.
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  If you know, list for listeners out there, if you really want
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  to go down an hour of fun, look at these reaction videos. They're
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  amazing. They're amazing because you all walks of life are having the same response
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  to the same lyrics in the same way, no matter their political affiliation.
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  It is absolutely remarkable. And I thought, you know, one of the
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  things when he said, if it wasn't for his dog or the Lord,
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  he'd be in the psych ward. You know, he's talked about having mental
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  illness. He's been very transparent about that, right, and his alcoholism.
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  Yes, And he says that he feels like that this resonates with so many
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  because there's so many out there that because of today's world, the world that
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  we're living in, that people are losing their minds. Yes, and so
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  in his mind. And I don't know about you, Stephen, but there
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  there have been times in the last few years I thought, I'm so glad
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  that my father is not here for this, and you just want to go
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  Lord, just take us. This is so hard, this is so insane.
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  This is you know, I want to go to heaven. And he's
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  saying take me home, meaning just take me to heaven. Take me home.
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  And so when I listened today, I was listening to some of the
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  reaction videos and people were talking about how they understand where this is coming from
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  and when you understand someone's lyrics. Oh and you know, by the way,
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  he was offered eight million dollars, that's the thing. So there was
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  an article out there. This was in the Guardian, I think in the
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  UK. Yeah, talking about again so big. He's appearing in articles in
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  Britain. Yes, okay, this guy from backwoods Virginia with one microphone.
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  This is a battle cry stephen Is. The article says he was offered eight
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  million dollars by multiple different record record companies, but it also says he's currently
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  making forty thousand dollars a day wow off of iTunes and streaming. Let's go,
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  let's freaking go. And let me tell you why this excites me that
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  he turned it down if he had been with a record label, yes,
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  we never would have heard that song. Right. You know if he signs
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  with the record label, they get to he loses freedom. Yes, right
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  now he has freedom and people want to hear what he has to say.
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  If he signs with a record label, they'll tell him what he can and
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  cannot put out they own him in a sense unless they have it in the
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  contract otherwise. But I listened to an interview where he answered this question.
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  The interviewer, the reporter asked him, like, would he make of this?
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  You know, what is your hope? Is your hope? Oliver?
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  And he said, I just want people to start appreciating each other for the
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  human beings that they are and look beyond political differences and ideologies. He said,
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  a lot of the things that I see that corporate media and education doing
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  is making everyone identify their differences rather than their similarities. Yeah. So you
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  get the sense that this guy who's you know, in West Virginia in the
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  mountains on ninety acres with his two dogs or whatever, and he is taking
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  all of this in and he just spilled it the way that I feel like,
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  can we, please, Dear God, get away from our differences?
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  The focus is so much on our race, so much on what political affiliation
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  we land on, so much on our differences. Can we please go back
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  to when we just loved each other for the human beings that we were,
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  or if that never actually existed? Can we get there now? Yeah?
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  Finally, please God, He is the champion of the people. If you
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  like askar American Mama question, go to our website American ground Radio dot com,
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  slash mama and click on the ask the Mama A button turning out Ofville.
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  Thank you so much, Real