Amazon Kindle is distributing Oliver Anthony Blue Moon Balladeer
Amazon Kindle is distributing Oliver Anthony Blue Moon Balladeer
Christopher Anthony Lunsford, employing Oliver Anthony Music as performance and pen name to honor a deceased grandfather and re-invigorate mid-twentieth century country music, lit up the American scene with “Rich Men North of Richmond” in August, 2023 rather like a blue moon.
The exceptional rarity of a virile farmer, former industrial/construction materials salesman and factory laborer, poet balladeer with bright, hazel eyes and copper red beard brightening impish, boyish face grounded in the Virginia Piedmont barreling into national consciousness quickly and seemingly out of the blue, and a blue moon overlapping in real time distinguished his appearance on the American scene. A Sturgeon moon illuminated August 1st, and a Blue Moon saturated August, 30th and 31st night skies.
In his work as a salesman, Anthony earned customers’ trust. They confided desperation that the futility of ever earning enough to support their families provoked anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, and that abusing alcohol and narcotics to cope with the ceaseless ineffectiveness of their exertions only made matters worse.
A sensitive man, Anthony absorbed their desperation. So much so, he succumbed to alcohol and drug abuse, which inflicted such disabling physical pain that he required hospital emergency room attention.
At that moment of physical illness and crisis, Anthony resolved to chuck desperation, embrace faith, cultivate his voice, and express his talents.
This conversion experience re-ignited Lunsford’s first love for music from childhood, turbo-charged his creativity, and animated fresh composition and intense performance of “Rich Men North of Richmond” recorded and distributed in August, 2023.
Virality, velocity, and ubiquity blew up “Rich Men North of Richmond” and launched Anthony as a charismatic revivalist.
His ballad scored Number 1 iTunes downloads achieving 12M views along with five other Anthony songs commanding iTunes Top ten a week out from radioWv’s August 8th YouTube launch. Anthony’s momentum netted 30 million YouTube and 13 million Spotify streams, views and downloads a week later. He demonstrated global market dominance and power with approximately 150,000+ $.99 downloads.
By acknowledging frustrations and injuries too long ignored for too many in “Rich Men North of Richmond”, Anthony cultivates faith to venerate men and women working in and contributing to the productive economy.
Through this vital message, Anthony inspires listeners to devote themselves to persons, places and communities they know and love where they live and work and to scorn those profiting parasitically at and by their manipulation.
Sovereignty, the invisible hand grounding “Rich Men North of Richmond” integrity, animating its velocity, and undergirding its ubiquity, is no longer what it once was, and its diminishments chafe national identity.
"Rich Men North of Richmond” celebrations of faith and national identity could power Anthony’s song as a lament, sparking a charismatic revival, reanimating convictions in a constitutional republic.
Anthony’s velocity and ubiquity with “Rich Men North of Richmond” may now power egalitarian, polyhedron, communications and organizational verticals. “Sometimes, it just takes the right song coming along to let those out,” Anthony remarked in a Facebook post.
Time will tell whether a critic may revive H.L. Mencken’s assessment of David Grayson, Ray Stannard Baker’s pseudonym, to criticize Anthony: “I fail to respond to his enthusiasm for yokels..., and that countrymen are stupid and rascally.” Or, if an organization grows around the charismatic revivalist, whether Anthony may find Frank Capra’s “Meet John Doe” (1941) a cautionary tale.
In August, 2023, all the variables aligned as fresh voice and sound, national identity, sovereignty, constitutional, republican government and velocity and ubiquity potentially establishing egalitarian, polyhedron verticals pretty much artlessly.
Whether their inertial forces and dynamic energies will launch storied career and fresh 2020’s anthem with twice bright, forgiving Blue Moon light, or, whether like another August release, Anthony’s historic achievement will settle as a generational hymn like Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ In the Wind” (1962, 1963), or, like a comet, streak as one hit wonder, emerged as question at hand.
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