This is CBS Eye on the World with John Batchler. Here's John Batchler.

This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Batchler. The singer's name is Oliver Antony, and

the song is Rich Men North of Rich Mond. And I welcome Selena Zito of the Pittsburgh

Post Gazette, the Washington Examiner, and the New York Post to help me understand this

phenomenon of a folk singer taking over the political argument in Washington within moments

of this tune being heard across the country. Selena, a very good evening to you. Your

essay is helpful because it connects me to other phenomenon over the last 50 or 60 years

of course there's Bob Dylan. And of course there's Bruce Bernstein. And you mentioned

John Prane is no longer with us. But Oliver Antony, this is a fresh version of what the

US has turned into, obsession in one part of the country with right or left. Who is Oliver

Antony? And what has this young man done to make him right now the argument in Washington?

Good evening to you. Good evening. Thanks so much for having me on. So Oliver Antony is

a young man. He lives in Farmville, Virginia, just on the fringes of the Appalachian Mountains,

not quite Appalachia, but if you've been to Farmville, culturally it still is. And he's

a singer, a songwriter, but mainly just for himself. And he was, he was heard by local

disc jockey and a couple weeks ago, a few weeks ago. And he said, man, you really got something

going here. And so the disc jockey interviewed him and then did a video of him singing this song.

And the song just went boom, it went through the stratosphere in the way that that happens,

you know, only ever once in a lifetime. This doesn't always happen with songwriters in particular

in their first song. Usually you have to do your time in Nashville or LA or Chicago or New York

or ever to Troy. And because of that strat, you know, that sort of burst onto the American music scene,

people, as we tend to do these days, try to make the song about them and their politics.

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