Country musician John Rich, an ally of President Donald Trump best known as one half of the duo “Big & Rich,” released a fiery protest song against the Tennessee Valley Authority after leading recent opposition to a planned power plant.
While Jason Isbell, a singer-songwriter and outspoken Democrat, once wrote “Thank God for the TVA,” Rich has a different message for the nation’s largest public utility.
“The Devil ain’t got nothin’ on the TVA,” he sings in the “The Devil & the TVA,” released Friday by Rich’s label.
The anthem is the climax of an online campaign Rich has waged since May, when he began posting videos and messages opposing a natural gas-fired power plant TVA planned to build in Cheatham County, a mostly rural area outside Nashville.