Brothers Osborne join The Kelleigh Bannen Show for an interview to deep dive into the liner notes of “I’m Not For Everyone.” They talk songwriting, recording and nerding out over the “Who? What? and Where?” of their favorite records. Kelleigh also chats with country super-producer Jay Joyce about working with the Brothers Osborne and his philosophy for making records. Tune in and listen to the interview with Brothers Osborne in-full today (October 19) at 11am LA / 1pm Nashville / 2pm NYC or anytime on-demand here.
John Osborne on liner notes
I wanted to know who every drummer, guitar player, bass player, keys player, I wanted to know who all the writers were. I wanted to know who the engineer, the producer was, where it was produced, where it was mixed, all those things. And then reading the thank you’s and the whole thing. It was so fully immersive. One of the things that we unfortunately don’t have as much of in this day and age is that very tangible experience of, “Okay, I have the album.” I remember on a CD you’d have to precariously pull the liner notes out of it, and then you open it up while you’re listening to the music and it’s a completely immersive experience. I loved it. I still do it to this day with old records.
TJ Osborne on writing with Luke Dick
We’ve written with Luke for a long time, kind of right after he first started coming to Nashville… We knew that there was something really cool, special and unique about him and collaborating with him too. It’s like you said, he is so himself and is very comfortable being himself and open about who he is. And I think that really comes out in his songwriting… when you’re around someone like that, as a creative person, it makes you feel like, “Okay, I don’t need to hide anything from this guy. He’s being completely open about everything with me.” And it makes it very easy to work with him in that way and share maybe some of the more vulnerable parts of yourself or the insecure parts of yourself.
Brothers Osborne on writing with Natalie Hemby
TJ Osborne: It’s kind of hard to know where to start. I mean, first of all, Natalie is just gorgeous and just has this incredible charisma about her. And she’s just so sweet and kind, and you would never know if you just met her, her discography or the things that she has done. I mean, it is wild and she just carries herself in such a humble, graceful way. And she’s got an incredible knack for melody and phrasing. That’s very unique and original and an incredible lyricist on top of it.
John Osborne: And she’s very intuitive as well. You just start playing anything on guitar. I’m not going to get an, a right as Natalie and be like, check out these melodies.”
