Brothers Osborne recently finished opening for Darius Rucker on the Southern Style Tour, and are about to head out with their pal Jon Pardi for the All Time High Tour next month. The two keep themselves busy by working out, hanging out and playing some backstage jams. Whatever they do on the road, they have fun.
“Sometimes we’ll go to the gym just to get some exercise in, because it’s easy just to sit around all day on the bus and you get kind of cooped up. We’ve also had a few small jams backstage,” says John Osborne. “We’ll all sit around and play some Western Swing, which is a kind of music that’s still alive barely, but is so much fun to play. And we have all these bands out – Darius has a fiddle player and A Thousand Horses has a fiddle player, so we’re like, ‘Let’s get some twin fiddles.’ We have some other musicians, so we all sat in a room and we recorded a version of us performing ‘San Antonio Rose,’ and just recently, we did one with Darius. We did an old Doc Watson song called ‘She’s Gone Away.’ We keep ourselves busy. We’re just a bunch of kids out there.”
The All Time High Tour kicks off October 8th in San Diego.
Brothers Osborne are currently making their way up the country charts with their latest single, “Stay a Little Longer.”
Audio / John Osborne of Brothers Osborne reveals what it’s like for him and TJ on the road when they’re not on stage.
DownloadBrothers Osborne (time off on the road) OC: …grown kids. [laughs]
“We do all kinds of stuff. I mean, sometimes we’ll go to the gym just to get some exercise in, because it’s easy just to sit around all day on the bus and you get kind of cooped up. We’ve also had a few small jams backstage. We’ll all sit around and play some Western Swing, which is a kind of music that’s still alive barely, but is so much fun to play. And we have all these bands out – Darius has a fiddle player and A Thousand Horses has a fiddle player, so we’re like, ‘Let’s get some twin fiddles.’ We have some other musicians, so we all sat in a room and we recorded a version of us performing ‘San Antonio Rose,’ and just recently, we did one with Darius. We did an old Doc Watson song called ‘She’s Gone Away.’ We keep ourselves busy. We’re just a bunch of kids out there. A bunch of grown kids.” [laughs]