MY FIRST TIME LISTENING TO | Oliver Anthony - Rich Men North Of Richmond | (REACTION!!!)

[@JamesClark-j3s]

I’m black , I was turned on to Americana music 4-5 years ago, it’s honest , raw and simple with a story. Benjamin Tod , using again, I will rise and end with you. It shows his progression through Drug addiction, sobriety and overcoming. He has a ton more great songs, Colter wall the Devi wears a suit and tie, sleeping on the blacktop( the brewery sessions video) and Tyler Childers . Plus Sierra Farrell in dreams the gems videos, Rosemary she has a lot of them too. They have great voices fantastic songs they wrote, and a good listen.

[@jaydeutscher]

Black Americans were integral in the development and perpetuation of American folk/country/western music, and I am glad to see so many urban/suburban/non-Southern Black Americans returning to their musical roots. The banjo resulted from slaves replicating the African instrument used in their homelands. Blacks and poor Whites worked together in the fields picking cotton, pulling peanuts, and so on. They shared the same food, language, and music. So many intermarried that miscegenation laws were passed in the South. “Miscegenation” is the mixing of races and is the primary reason our races are so mixed today and the reason most Black Americans are much lighter than native Sub-Saharan Africans. By the way, “Soul Food” is exactly the same as poor White food in the South. I grew up on fried chicken (and I know what it means to say that someone “runs around like a chicken with its head cut off” and the basis of the threat to “wring” someone’s neck. I, and every other White I knew living out in the country, grew up on what so many people today call “soul food”. Basic menu items were poke salat, collard greens,turnips and turnip greens, chicken giblets (livers, gizzards, hearts), watermelon, cantaloupes, cornpone, skillet fried cornbread,hoe cakes, biscuits and gravy, cornmeal mush, hominy, tripe, okra, fried taters and onions, liver (and onions), beans, black-eyed peas, and on and on. My dad’s favorite supper was “cornbread and sweet milk” (fried cornbread crumbled up in fresh milk). Buttermilk was a special treat. I grew up listening to Charlie Pride, and I, an old white redneck, am so glad to see WONDERFUL Black musicians/singers such as Chapel Hart, Darius Rucker, Kane Brown, Mickey Guyton, Cowboy Troy, Cleve Francis, Jimmie Allen, Brittney Spencer, Carl Ray, Petrella, Trini Triggs, and, yes, even Aaron Neville, Ray Charles, and Tina Turner - and many more - who have shaped and are shaping “Southern/mountain” music. Although TV and movies certainly don’t depict it, 1 out of 4 cowboys were Black as were most trail and ranch cooks. Ironically, Whites who worked cattle were called “cow hands” while Blacks were originally called the pejorative “cow boys”. (We certainly know which name won out!) Prior to the abolition of slavery, the cattle trade was considered to offer a high degree of relative freedom to slaves, who would be issued guns, often left unaccompanied on horseback for long stretches, and trusted to return. (And there are MANY Black cowboys today.) The ancestors of Black Americans were overwhelmingly African farmers or cattle herders. Besides the breakdown of so many Black families, I seriously think that the separation of most Black Americans from the land has been detrimental. Anyway, welcome home!

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@user-rw3rs7fe3t TY for watching and I will give these a listen!

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@jaydeutscher your post was informative and well written. The term Afro-American and Black/Black American are often used synonymously with each other, and this is really not a "you" issue, but an America issue. Black Americans are not a monolithic group. I am mixed race but setting that aside as a second-gen Nigerian American, my history, my culture, my food, language etc. differs from African American history, food, etc. Although our homes differ, I appreciate you welcoming me into your home!

[@LonnieCrafton]

The rawness just makes the song more authentic. I think if it was overproduced it wouldn’t give off the same impact of its message. Check out I wanna go home by Oliver and you’ll appreciate his voice a lot more. It also has a powerful message.

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I think the vocal mixing could be improved, but I do agree if it was overproduced it def would not have had the same impact...a bit of catch 22. Also added home to the list!

[@sandymartinez5434]

Please react to his song I Want To Go Home.

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Hey @sandymartinez5434 I am super behind on my comments apologies for the late relpy. I dropped a reaction a couple weeks ago you can check it out here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ooXXnWqHZ897d6s

[@randyhuff1983]

I think his voice is his.

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fair

[@gradycooper7416]

a little late to the party huh ?

[@dylanw6]

Hater

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@gradycooper7416 yup, but I am here now! Better late than never, as they say 😂 and @dylanw6 I appreciate the support 🤜🏾