After a long wait and numerous delays, Brothers Osborne third studio album Skeletons has finally arrived.
T.J. and John Osborne set out to have their new record reflect the ascension the band has had in their career so far. The size of the venues they play is getting larger and the crowds are continuing to go bigger. “We really wanted an album that would work in larger venues,” Brothers Osborne told RADIO.COM’s Gunner & Cheyenne.
Right as the band was making a record that would suit the audiences they were set to play concerts for, the pandemic hit. Still, the brothers think the album will be able to give fans that larger than life feeling when they listen to it.
“The thing is though, I do think it will give the people that kind of feeling at a show when you hear it,” T.J. said. “We recorded it for live shows, but we did not realize we wouldn’t be playing live shows.”
The COVID-19 pandemic was just one of many events that delayed the release of their new album. “The record should have come out a long time ago,” T.J. said. “It’s really a coincidence that the record is called Skeletons and it’s coming out in October.”
“Between burnout, illnesses, the holidays, a tornado, the pandemic, all that stuff delayed the record so much. We almost didn’t finish it a multitude of times. It was wild, it took a lot of fight to get this record down,” he added.
There was another factor that led to the album’s delay. T.J. got very, very sick.
“Right in between the tornado and COVID I got salmonella poisoning,” he said. “It was intense. It affected me way worse than COVID would.”
“Let me tell you, it is nothing to mess around with,” he added. After he saw his doctor and described what he went through, his doctor was surprised he didn’t go to the emergency room. She joked, “what’s the next step that you decide to go? Death?”
T.J. responded, “That makes a lot of sense because I don’t know how I could have gotten any sicker without straight up dying.”
Brothers Osborne have been nominated for several CMA Awards this year and are out of the loop whether or not they’ll be performing or in attendance at the awards show. T.J. gave us an insight into how they found out they wouldn’t be at the recent ACM Awards. “For the ACMs they said, ‘we politely are informing you that your presence is not needed.’”
“In a way I’d rather lose at home than lose on national television.”
Check out the full interview with Brothers Osborne below.
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