Since he was a young dude in Akron, OH, Anthony Mills has been listening to a lot of country music. The "Rubber City" native vividly remembers getting ready for school while the morning radio played the hits from big names like Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, and Willie Nelson. Charlie Pride was probably in the mix up in there, but Anthony was not aware of who he...

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Anthony Mills is a unique character. Raised in Ohio by way of Louisiana, he has spent the formative years of his musical career as a hip-hop artist and producer.

Somewhere along the road, Anthony felt that he needed to tell the stories of his heritage – from his French-Creole grandmother to the blue-collar great-grandparents who laid their roots in the factories of Akron, Flint and Detroit. Drawing on traditional plantation...

Anthony Mills’ new single ‘barefoot in pineville’ is taken from his album Blue Collar Work Ethic. The record is a collection of stories that are a homage to Mill’s Louisiana heritage and factory-town upbringing. These are working songs, chronicling states of mind from the Deep South all the way to the Rubber City (aka Akron, Ohio.)

Anthony declares the new single 'barefoot in pineville' is "music for anyone who is...

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Anthony Mills’ new single ‘trouble’ is taken from his album Blue Collar Work Ethic. The record is a collection of stories that are a homage to Mill’s Louisiana heritage and factory-town upbringing. These are working songs, chronicling states of mind from the Deep South all the way to the Rubber City (aka Akron, Ohio.)

Tackling Southern American masculinity, Mills tells us ‘Trouble’ is “all about showing and proving. The saying...