Music of the Week: November 14, 2025: John Rich – The Devil and the TVA
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Music of the Week
The Devil and the TVA
John Rich
Music of the Week, November 14, 2025
The Devil and the TVA
John Rich
For over two years, the people of Cheatham County, Tennessee, mounted fiery opposition to plans of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to build a natural gas plant in its rural area.
The TVA wanted to confiscate nearly 300 acres of farmland and build a 900-megawatt natural gas and battery storage plant, complete with miles of pipelines and power lines. No one in their right mind would ever think of erecting something like this in this pastoral land.
Even country music singer John Rich stepped in. Rich says he uses his music to be a citizen advocate.
“I told him, ‘You got two weeks. If you don’t get out of our county, I’m gonna write a song about the TVA and you’ll never be the same.’ Music is my weapon of choice.”
He wrote this song as a battle cry and to support all the citizens who will not give up the fight for their rights, their land, and their future. The fight paid off. Cheatham County is no longer the “preferred alternative” for TVA’s natural gas plant.
Links
John Rich Explains Story Behind ‘The Devil and the TVA’ (YouTube)
John Rich (Website)
John Rich (Wikipedia)
TVA pulls plug on Cheatham County gas plant – but questions remain (Kingston Springs Gazette)
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It’s worth adding to this conversation that it seems most, if not all property owners in Tennessee receiving electric services have agreed to grant “an easement of right of way over, on and under all lands owned, leased or mortgaged by the member … for furnishing of electric service to the member or to any other member and for the construction, operation, maintenance and relocation of electric facilities”. This (or similar) language has been found tucked away in the member handbooks, subsequently-adopted “policies”, or contracts of many of the utility co-ops/companies that receive electricity from the TVA, even though it may be only vaguely called out in the member/customer contract itself.
Not only does this easement appear to apply to “over, on and under” the ENTIRE property hooked up to electric services, but to “all lands owned, leased or mortgaged by the member”, including ALL their land in OTHER places (as explained by one utility co-op), seemingly without limiting the county, state or country where the other land may be located. Also, it’s unclear what “construction, operation, maintenance and relocation of electric facilities” may include. In some counties, this also applies when contracting to hook up to fiber internet and phone service.
If this is what it appears, then for a utility to have their members/customers unknowingly agree to grant such easements in order to receive utility services, would be not only egregious, but a breach of trust and fraud.
For example, here is the language in the Cheatum County electric company member handbook (Upper Cumberland Electric Membership Corporation) – see item #1.09: https://www.ucemc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/MEMBER-HANDBOOK.pdf
“Each member shall … execute and deliver … easements or rights-of-way over, on and under such lands owned or leased by the member … for the furnishing of electric service to him or others or for the construction, operation, maintenance or relocation of the cooperative’s electric facilities and for the use of the cooperative’s facilities for any other service permitted by law over, on and under all lands owned, leased or otherwise occupied by such member … Each member shall participate in any required program … to enhance load management, more efficiently to utilize or conserve electric energy or to conduct load research.”