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Not in it to make friends. It’s no secret that John Rich isn’t afraid to ruffle feathers. The outspoken country singer, who is one half of duo Big & Rich, has long been a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump and a prominent voice for conservative values and Christianity in country music. One of his frequent targets has been Nashville and the country music industry itself. During a recent interview with Shawn Ryan, Rich blasted record labels as “indentured servitude” and claimed that executives from New York and Los Angeles were controlling what country artists could say and do: “I started getting in trouble with the label because I was doing interviews with Sean Hannity… I played a song at the first big Tea Party rally in Georgia, it was 20, 30,000 people, and my record label went absolutely insane that I did that. ‘You’re going to upset half your audience.’ And of course they’ve got their money invested in you to go sell records to everybody, and from their perspective I’m alienating people. I said, ‘Well you’ve got liberal artists that are out here saying all kinds of stuff that I don’t like, you’re not worried about them.’ They go, ‘That’s not the point.’ It WAS the point… I guess what they mean by ‘that’s not the point’ is, ‘We own you. We own your voice, your likeness, your music. And if we say we don’t want you to do it, that’s the point.’ It’s do as I say and not as I do… It’s like an indentured servitude type of existence.” And he’s even said that labels will attempt to blackmail artists in order to be able to control them: “There are tactics deployed in the entertainment industry where they will try to co-opt the big talent. They’ll try to put them in positions to compromise them, get pictures and video on them, basically as blackmail, as extortion, where then they can make that artist do anything they want them to do. It is the most sadistic, wicked, satanic stuff you’ve ever seen.” Yeah, it’s probably no surprise that Rich doesn’t have a great relationship with the music industry. But according to Rich, he doesn’t care. During a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Rich was asked about his relationship with the music industry, and caught Carlson’s attention when he claimed that he’s not “part of” the industry. Carlson was clearly confused at the notion that a country singer could not be part of the country music industry (oh buddy, do you have a lot to learn about country music), as Rich explained that he had no interest in making friends with those who control country music: “I’m not a part of the music industry. Nobody’s going to call me up and say, ‘Congratulations, here’s a big number one.’… I mean, I don’t have a contract with anybody in the industry. I regularly attack the industry. I call ’em out for how they treat artists, and we’re not friends.” In fact, Rich says he prefers it that way: “I don’t want them to think well of me.” Of course there are plenty of artists who have had massive success without the help of the music industry. Zach Bryan blew up independently, though he’s since signed to Warner Records as he’s blown up. Muscadine Bloodline has been fully independent throughout their entire career, and while they don’t get the recognition at awards shows, they control their entire career and catalog while getting picked up on major tours and selling out their own shows. Same with Turnpike Troubadours and Sturgill Simpson, and countless other artists who have no help from the industry. There are plenty out there doing it – and I have a feeling that there are plenty of them who feel exactly the way John Rich does about the industry too. The post John Rich Says He Doesn’t Want The Music Industry To Like Him: “We’re Not Friends” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

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