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The Stage That Makes Brothers Osborne Nervous

Brothers Osborne recently spent three nights performing at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium, and cameras were there to capture the behind-the-scenes magic. The video clip opens with the guys getting their…

The Stage That Makes Brothers Osborne Nervous

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – FEBRUARY 16: John Osborne and T.J. Osborne of Brothers Osborne perform at Ryman Auditorium on February 16, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

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Brothers Osborne recently spent three nights performing at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium, and cameras were there to capture the behind-the-scenes magic.

The video clip opens with the guys getting their instruments ready and TJ says, "We've had the honor of playing this room several times but this is the first time we've headlined. It's so important to us that every time we come here I feel like there's never a moment where I don't have at least some sort of anxiousness or nerves stepping on the stage and it's a nice feeling."

John says, "The shows here are always different than other shows and I think that has a lot to do with the history of the room and the shape of the room. There is an intimacy. This place is tuned acoustically to sound great and that's the best thing about the Ryman Auditorium."

When the guys played the Ryman back in February, their shows included guests like Dierks Bentley and Maren Morris. John admits, "We love having guests on stage. If it was up to us we'd have a hundred buses."

Brothers Osborne are currently touring with a show at The Cotillion Ballroom in Wichita, Kansas tomorrow night.

-Nancy Brooks

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.