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Oliver Anthony didn’t hold back when he played at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee back in February of 2024… and it evidently cost him his management company. Life has been a whirlwind for the Virginia native ever since he released his debut single, “Rich Men North of Richmond,” back in 2023. The video of his in-the-woods performance was originally uploaded to YouTube and quickly went viral, racking up millions upon millions of views before Anthony was even able to release the song on streaming platforms. Now, a couple of years and over 300 million streams later, Oliver Anthony is still making his way through the music industry, proving wrong those that said he’d have just 15 minutes of fame following his viral hit. And it was actually the success of “Rich Men North of Richmond” that have given the artist the flexibility to do as he wishes when it comes to his music. How? Well does an $800,000 royalty check thanks to the song answer your question? And that was just the first one… Though an almost $1 million check right off the bat is pretty nice, it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows in the weeks and months after he rose to fame seemingly overnight. While on The Joe Rogan Experience, Anthony spoke about his two-night run of concerts at the Ryman Auditorium back in 2024… and how something he said on stage ended up costing him a lot of his Music City connections: “I had people in Nashville quit working with me because I talked about (politics) when I was at the Ryman. We had this chick who plays the fiddle and does flat dancing and stuff named Hillary Klug, who lives in Nashville. We had her come to the Ryman to do the show with us and it was on a last minute thing and I’m about to introduce her and I tell the crowd, ‘Hey, I’ve got Hillary about to come out… but don’t worry, it’s not that Hillary.'” But that wasn’t the thing that led to Oliver Anthony’s management company dropping him. The “I Want To Go Home” singer apparently piggybacked off that jab at Hillary Clinton by getting a little bit deeper into politics. He says that someone in the crowd that night shouted something, which sparked him to go into a rant that crossed the line in the eyes of those who he was working with: “Somebody said something in the crowd, and I don’t know, I just interact and I just say what comes to mind. I don’t care about all that stuff and what people might think. I just try to say what I feel. But I was like, ‘Isn’t it crazy that somebody like Hillary, who not that long ago, I can remember vividly being completely against the idea of having two people of the same gender be married?'” Anthony explains that he made another comment about people like Hillary being okay with kids becoming transgender, and related it to politics, in his mind, being all theatrics and focused on what will sell. Even Joe Rogan was a little surprised that the singer-songwriter went there during his performance at the Mother Church, asking: “You said this at the Ryman?” Hey… saying something that shocks Joe Rogan is pretty impressive. Oliver Anthony isn’t feeling remorseful about it though. He went on to confirm that he did say those things while on stage, and that it led to many people he was working with (specifically in Nashville) almost immediately cutting ties with him as an artist: “I said that at the Ryman, and I had my management company that I was using drop me, and a bunch of other people (dropped me) without even telling me. They just emailed my attorney and said they couldn’t work with me anymore. They were that mad about that.” Fortunately, it seems like any bit of controversy that came from his Hillary Clinton comments was water off a duck’s back for Oliver Anthony. And obviously, he’s still doing just fine. His new single “Scornful Woman” is getting a ton of praise, and he’s got a new album on the way. Seems like he didn’t ever really need that management company anyways… he can handle things just fine on his own. You can hear more details in the latest episode of The Joe Rogan Experience: And check out the new single, “Scornful Woman,” below: The post Oliver Anthony Dropped A Hillary Clinton Joke At The Ryman That Immediately Got Him Dropped By His Management Company first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

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