{"id":26241,"date":"2023-11-18T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=26241"},"modified":"2023-11-15T10:37:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T15:37:02","slug":"oliver-anthony-says-he-will-never-be-a-nashville-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/11\/oliver-anthony-says-he-will-never-be-a-nashville-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Anthony Says He Will Never Be A Nashville Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christopher Anthony Lunsford is better known as Oliver Anthony Music, and in a new interview with “Billboard”<\/a> he explained the whole story.<\/p>\n

Before “Rich Men North of Richmond” exploded onto the scene he was just some guy making a living working in sales.<\/p>\n

He didn’t want his music side gig to interfere with his ability to put food on the table.<\/p>\n

“I adopted the name because I didn’t want my real name associated with the music, because I’ve got a lot of songs about a lot of things that I wouldn’t necessarily want an employer to hear.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oliver Anthony is his late grandfather’s name, and they were very close.<\/p>\n

“The reason I stick Music on the end is because it really is supposed to be a representation of music that would have existed in [my grandfather’s] era when he was alive, living up in the mountains.”They had dirt floors, they were scrounging to survive, didn’t have electricity. I’m trying to represent that type of music [and] maintain the simplicity that would’ve been necessary at that time.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s a deal in place for him to record his debut studio album, but he won’t be headed to Music City.<\/p>\n

“We’re going to be in a studio in Georgia. I’m never going to be in Nashville sitting with people co-writing, ever.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The album will be out next year, and he’ll be promoting it with his “Out of the Woods” world tour.<\/p>\n