The rich men north of Richmond are not just in Washington DC. They're all over the world. I'm from England and this song really hits me.

everyone needs to make this man a star

It’s amazing how one song can come out and suddenly; race, creed, religion, sex means absolutely nothing and it hits everyone in the heart and can connect on every single level. This man has started something, and I can’t wait to see what comes from this.

This song has united the country, and honestly the world, more in 3 minutes, than politicians have in 3 decades.

I heard this song this morning. The line “Living in the new world..With an old soul” really hit me. After 60++ years on this earth I’ve never seen anything like the world today.

I've watched this song on multiple channels today, and I cry each time out of frustration and anger. Great message. Hope we all wake up and grab each other's hands and lift ourselves up and out of this nightmare. God bless 🙏👊

Sitting here with water rolling out of my eyes. At the hospital was just told 10 mins ago my father has a couple days max... This song is him... Worked his entire life to go through life & feed his family...

I think the genius of this is that Oliver knows how smart his audience is. That kind of honesty goes both ways. Love this dude.

Rich men north of Richmond referring the the DC swamp is a brilliant title for this song. I love everything about it and it’s a instant classic. Glad art isn’t dying in small pockets of small towns.

Tears running down my cheeks. Every day we learn more about the lies we’ve been fed. I go to the store and old ladies are shaking with fear because they can’t afford to buy food. You shouldn’t get to the end of your life and have to cry because peaches are $2 a piece. Pray for our children. Pray for us all.

THIS is the one. I’m obsessed with this song and the story. And it’s not just in DC. I’m on the Canadian side of the border and we are having HUGE problems of the same kind. It’s hitting all of us, but this song has helped galvanize us. This man helped light a massive fire….and the tide is about to turn. Peace, friends.🙏🏼

Those are not just chills, or a chord, that's reality connecting with emotion.

This song touched my soul and im sitting out here in Norway..and dude just standing out in the woods with his dogs, singing his heart out. Simply 🤯... love it. More power to this man!

If you’ve ever worked a blue-collar job, dealt with absolute idiots as owners and upper level management, never felt appreciated, and just busted your ass for 60+ hours a week to see 40% of your pay check go to a government and politicians that don’t give two shits about you, all while going to islands to diddle with little kids… This song will bring you to tears because someone in the music industry is saying something that resonates with you. I’ve cried twice today listening to this.

This song jumps straight to whats in the heart and soul of 10s of millions around the world these days. The passion in which Oliver delivers the lyrics just coalesces into a crescendo of emotion that we all have been struggling to look past each morning we start another day in these dark times. And you can see this in the outpouring of love for this song from all over the globe.

This man opened his mouth, and the soul of the world rang out!!!!! This song is touching people across the globe.

This resonates me so much as a 43 year old woman in Ireland. I have 3 sons and 2 moved abroad as there’s nothing here for them, it’s so hard to even get a job. ❤️❤️

This man put tears in my eyes because he is saying what’s driving us all crazy. The rich men north of Richmond are eat our American dream for dessert. It’s disgusting.

The World is listening to Oliver Anthony!! And we stand with him!!! Everybody has to hear it!!!!!

To my brother and sister sitting right there much love, LORD heal our NATION! Thank you for playing and sharing your thoughts on "Rich Men North of Richmond" by Oliver Anthony

The forgotten poor in our country. Proud but quietly desperate and grinding. My blood feels this. God protect my home in Eastern Kentucky.

The soul of our country is sick and this song is diagnosing it. It hits our individuals souls. It’s so powerful. I cried like a baby listening to it the 5th time or so. It’s so real.

Ths kicker is in years past we'd NEVER have discovered this guy because good luck finding a label to produce songs like this.🔥🔥

Oliver is speaking for ALL of us...I love seeing how the unity is coming together.

What makes this song so awesome is that it transcends through race, age, or political view. It hits home for so many Americans right now.

I totally agree! This is a great song promoting 'us' as a country. Not an ancestry, skin color, or whatever...but just as as citizens of the USA. ❤

As a native Texan, it makes me smile to hear you live here now. It looks like it suits you as you both look healthy and happy. This song waters my eyes to no end.

Love you guys. Every time I hear this song I get tears in my eyes. Thanks for covering it 💛

Hopefully this song will encourage more great songwriters to speak up and be heard and seen from no matter which corner of the country you come from. American Folk at its Best.

The bluegrass genre of music has the best singer/songwriters that tell the best stories. The message is powerful because the message is 100% true.

He can sing his face off. So much power and grit in his message.

[Verse 1] I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day Overtime hours for bullshit pay So I can sit out here and waste my life away Drag back home and drown my troubles away [Pre-Chorus] It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to For people like me and people like you Wish I could just wake up and it not be true But it is, oh, it is Livin' in the new world With an old soul These rich men north of Richmond Lord knows they all just wanna have total control Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do And they don't think you know, but I know that you do 'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end 'Cause of rich men north of Richmond [Verse 2] I wish politicians would look out for miners And not just minors on an island somewhere Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat And the obese milkin' welfare [Verse 3] Well, God, if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds Young men are puttin' themselves six feet in the ground 'Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin' them down [Pre-Chorus] Lord, it's a damn shame what the world's gotten to For people like me and people like you Wish I could just wake up and it not be true But it is, oh, it is [Chorus] Livin' in the new world With an old soul These rich men north of Richmond Lord knows they all just wanna have total control Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do And they don't think you know, but I know that you do 'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end 'Cause of rich men north of Richmond [Outro] I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day Overtime hours for bullshit pay

Honestly this song hit the nail on the head 100% 4 years ago I made alot less money and my lifestyle hasn't changed and I was living good. I'm making double that now and I'm drowning I don't know how they expect anyone to get ahead in nowadays. I feel so bad for people right now these are hard times.

This mans story is so amazing as to how he came to sing not onlly this song but he has others. Amazing how a prayer to God can change a persons life. When help is required a prayer may be all that is needed.

He has literally made every single one of us angry and Wanna Cry cuz he's feeling what we've all been feeling for the last 3 years or more that should be our second Anthem right there off of working-class.

I had just got back from the grocery paying $5.69 for 2 cans of black beans. No lie. Beans! Then I heard this song and it hit me hard!!! This song is poetry!

İt's not just resinate with American People its resinate with me too and I am from Turkey. World has gone crazy and we are strugling against tyrants. I wish hope to yall.

You can tell this song was written straight from the soul and hits so hard b/c that's what we are all feeling.

Oliver Anthony.... Oliver was struggling with mental health & coping with alcohol. just about a month ago, Oliver got to his knees & broke down in tears. Though he's wasn't a religious man, that night he promised God to get sober if he helped him follow his dream. Oliver was about 30 days sober when someone reached out & asked him to come record a song for his KZfaq channel. That song was "Rich Men North of Richmond." Within days, the song was going VIRAL on social media.

This song connects all continents of this world, we hard-working people are about the same! Thank you! Greeting from Austria/Europa

"Young men are putting themselves 6 feet in the ground because all this damn country does is keep kicking them down.." Im in tears.

There is SO much to this song but what hits the most is one simple line “for people like me and people like you”. It is a message of UNITY❤

I have listened to so many great reactions to this anthem, yours is one of the best. People are waking up, realizing that they are being used to make the wealthy wealthier, that we have more in common than we have differences. This song is uniting people the world round. And that scared the crap out of the elites.

Song gives everyone hope, the reaction is letting people know they are not on their own but have millions of people that feel the same.

YESSSS IM SO FUCKING GLAD Y'ALL JUMPED ON THIS. I've had this shit on repeat.

What gets me every time I listen to this song is the actual heart felt emotion in his voice. This is art, not the garbage pumped out by record labels or hollywood, but honest to goodness from the soul, art. Absolutely fantastic and much too rare these days.

Never listened to your channel before, just crushing all the reactions for this song, and I have to say that you two have one of the best if not the best reaction. You catch and understand e v e r y phrase and meaning and have a very real response, not over acted and put on, unlike some. Thank you for a very heartfelt and intellectually stimulating video.

Its a song like this that will and has united the country and world to band together and make changes in places it really matters. I haven't seen this much unity in the US since 9/11. This is going to be our anthem of change.

We have got to stand together and let them know that we know what they are up to and we will not stand for it anymore!

Just the emotion that he projects!

Such a haunting and resounding voice. The resonator is the perfect instrument for this song.

One day, when we finally stand up for ourselves, this will be our anthem.

Rich men north of Richmond. Politicians in DC. Most powerful and authentic song I've heard in a very long time. I got tears the first time I heard it and I'm still getting goosebumps. Just a blue collar working man in the woods with his guitar and dog. I wish i could just wake up and it not be true but it is. Oh it is..... what a sobering reality check.

Just the pure emotion he sings this song with hits hard, he is truly pouring his heart out, amazing job.

You know how real this song is...Everyone gets chills listening to it. Facts

This is the power of music right here; even if the message doesn’t completely resonate with you, just a man in the woods with his guitar singing his heart out makes you listen and hear it. You can’t not appreciate it at the very least. Also, he’s just talented as hell; beautiful voice, a great guitar player and songwriter. I hope this young man gets to take his talent to the next level.

He said the rich men north of Richmond Virginia... I looked on the map and yeh it's possibly Washington DC. Such an emotional song that really touches soul of the working class... We have very little in life, work 2 jobs, as we watch our taxes go to other countries along with people who haven't earned it...This is raw emotion here...

I'm an old soul, this spoke straight to my heart. I feel his pain and frustration.

This song hits hard all over the world. Greetings from Spain ❤

I think that it's cool that a young black guy with tats on his face, for God's sake, introduced my old white ass to this guy's music. Thanks to both of you!

This dude is spitting the truth like bullets, and each one gets you right in the heart.

This is the song that could reunite America for Americans It's a song for all us....

Once every few generations there's a song that just completely describes and acknowledges how all of us think and feel. This is ours.

Dan Bongino played this today on his radio show. Turned my buddies on to it at lunch and they passed it on to friends and family. GOD bless to all. WE are in this together...

This is what REAL country music sounds like! ...not the country pop clowns you hear today (ie Luke Combs, Keith Urban, Walker Hayes, Sam Hunt, Luke Bryant, etc)

Such a POWERFUL song and such a great reaction! You can see and feel his entire soul as he belts this out. The lyrics are so true it brought tears to my eyes. I've heard that he holds his biggest admiration and influence in Hank Williams Senior (as do I) and when I heard Oliver's very unique voice and his very unique chemistry and mountains of 'soul' I could see the similarities between him and Hank, the Legend. The 'rich men north of Richmond' go back in history for more than 100 years... and all you have to do is look at those who created the Federal Reserve in 1913 to begin to know who they are. Their 'club' has grown immensely since then and it needs to be dismantled and destroyed to save our nation and all nations.

9 days ago he dropped this song now it has over 20 Million views... this song hits home with most of the world

Y’all’s reaction to the song gave me just as much hope for our country as the song did. Thank you.

So many brave artist are coming out against what is currently happening in our society! I pray they stay safe and their music skyrockets!!!!!

Living in the new world, with an old soul. Yep....that's how I feel.

You're absolutely Right 💯, he wrote The People's Anthem that will go down in history. When it feels like all hope is lost, Christopher Oliver Anthony shows up at the perfect moment, restoring my faith in humanity while bringing ALL people together 🫂 I'm so proud of him and I hope he never has to work a nine-to-five from here on out 🙏🏼 He's speaking for all of us, he's the voice for ALL HUMANITY and I'm so grateful because nowadays people are afraid to speak up about anything out of fear of being arrested or worse just for speaking your truth and saying how they feel 🥺 Thank you Chris, For literally giving me hope again. It's so refreshing knowing there are other people out there just like me, thanks to this song. 🥺I'm so overwhelmed because I almost lost hope in humanity, I have been wondering what happened to all of the kind, compassionate and loving people. Thanks to this song, I found my people! ☺️ now I don't feel so alone & invisible. We have to come together 🙏🏼🫂🙏🏼 as One United Family to fight this evil that continues to divide us so they can control us more easily. 💯 This is the beginning of our fight, the fight for our freedom and the fight for a country. Sending Love 💌, light🕯️and positive vibes🧘🏻to all my people! 🤍🕊️🤍

That song comes out of the gate like a top fuel dragster. Big voice, brutality honest lyrics, simple beautiful notes..... awesome.

I'm glad he referenced the need for politicians to care about minors (and he could have meant this in reference to miners given that he's from West Virginia), and "not just those on an island somewhere", i.e. Epstein Island; I didn't pick this up the first time. I appreciate him making this a part of this song. This is the kind of song that cuts through the distracting external noise and touches the hearts of people and connects them; he's giving a voice to the all people.

His voice oozes with true soul!!!! Get that man a Grammy NOW!!!

There is something about him being in the middle of a forest, singing at the top of his lungs, surrounded by dogs, screaming at the politicians to change and be better and telling americans to wake up that makes this music video so one of the best!

RadioWV is churning out some great singers and song writers! This song literally gives me chills!

The crazy thing is…he’s already got a album worth of awesome original songs ready and available! He’s got others y’all! This one is absolutely 🔥 but the others are too! Unreal that this dude came out nowhere and in one week has 3 songs (#1, #5 and #8) on iTunes

33 yo guy, doing construction now for near a decade. I've listened to this song 4 times now and stumbled to this video of yours and I couldn't hold it in when driving home from work. Finally broke down listening to his song Because his words ring true for us. It hurts.

His passion comes through and that helps make this song amazing!

He's got a old soul/voice in a young body. I can't stop listening to this song and his others. Got my parents hooked on it too

I got chills. One half a second later Meaux says, " I got chills ". I'm in synch with you two. Love to you both.

95% of influencers are people of color that love this song, so thank you! Appreciate you! Love God, family, and country!

Really one of the best reviews and understanding that I’ve heard about this great song. It gives everyone chills and tears.

I've listened to this song 20 times last 2 days n gives me chills every time I hear it. He's speaking truth n facts.

Oliver is handing out chills like a bad winter 🥶

Ive had this song on repeat for days. Same with all his other songs. Every one of them is as good as this one. 90s chevy, i want to go home, i need to get sober, doggone it....the list goes on. Its all lyrically beautiful.

Keep sharing! This song needs to be heard far and wide!

Oh to be in the woods there hearing this coming out like it is & not know what's going on. Just the sound. Total heart and soul. Go young man GO!!!!

I’ve viewed other reactions to this song and without a doubt this is the best. Such a great job expounding on how the song rings true for so many of us. I appreciate the great reaction and discourse.

This man was INCREDIBLE! Damn near made me tear up a bit (from the truth in the lyrics combined with the grace of his voice) 👏😎👍

Oliver speared me through the heart with this one. Catastrophic fury builds within me as I see how this nation has gone from a bunch of Badass Normals to a chasm-gap aristocracy whose subjects are hella weak because of greed and manipulation by those whose self-serving control-freak egos continue to grow beyond the size of the Milky Way galaxy and likely reaching Andromeda. How we let this happen I might never know, but it CAN be corrected before this wounded country collapses.

This song hit me hard not gonna lie this dude knows the struggle.

Awesome song! Got goosebumps..from the heart and soul. This man represents/speaks for the hard working Americans..working hard and going nowhere but down. Kudos to him! This says what’s going on today in this new world. This song has gone to #1 on iTunes..just like Jason Aldean’s song about a month ago. Americans are speaking through the songs.

Songs like this make us forget about black or white, Republican or Democrat, gay or straight, and reminds us we’re all just people and that we have more in common than we think, and that the politicians are after all of us.

Never seen your channel. Just found this song. Two gifts in one day. 😊Love this song. We are all more alike than different. Let’s all stand together. Quit letting them divide us for their own gain at all our expense. Thanks for a wonderful video.

Such a good song! Hits home for most of us. 😢 Good voice! First time hearing him. #1 on iTunes All Genres. Tom #10. Rooting for Tom & ACal.

standing in the woods letting his talent shine , you all have talents people you just have to find it and let it shine , fantastic oliver wha a voice sir

This is a once in a generation type song and his life is about to change for real

I don't remember the last time a song broke this quickly. This song is literally everywhere today.

Felt all 3 minutes and 10 seconds right in the feels. Excellent reaction, as usual, you two! Thanks for covering.