Brothers Osborne are getting ready to hit the airwaves with their new single, “21 Summer,” which was a slightly different feel to the original version they first recorded.
“Jay had the idea for the song, and it was kind of weird because people loved the original version we had, and we knew people were probably not gonna like the fact that it was changed,” says TJ Osborne. “He’s like, ‘I think it would be really cool to have a song that was a little more, felt like you could put on and it’d just be chill.’ A lot of country records don’t really have that; they’re a little bit more kind of attention grabbing. And so, we loved that idea. We have those songs that are kind of a little bit more in your face, but it’d be cool to have a song that was just very relaxed and kind of almost have that kind of California country thing to it.”
The pair will hit the road with Miranda Lambert and Kip Moore on the Keeper of the Flame Tour later this year.
Brothers Osborne pull in two nominations for this year’s Academy of Country Music Awards, including Vocal Duo and New Vocal Duo of the Year. The ACMs will be broadcast live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas April 3rd at 8pm ET on CBS.
Audio / Brothers Osborne’s TJ Osborne talks about the feel of their song “21 Summer.”
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TJ: “That was a song we recorded several different times. It’s one of the older songs that we’ve had on that record. And Jay had the idea for the song, and it was kind of weird because people loved the original version we had, and we knew people were probably not gonna like the fact that it was changed. But Jay, it was really his idea. He’s like, I think it would be really cool to have a song that was a little more, felt like you could put on and it’d just be chill. You could sit on your back porch and just hang out and have a conversation, and it’d just be a song that was playing. A lot of country records don’t really have that; they’re a little bit more kind of attention grabbing. And so, we loved that idea. We have those songs that are kind of a little bit more in your face, but it’d be cool to have a song that was just very relaxed and kind of almost have that kind of California country thing to it.”
