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Brothers Osborne on their Grammy Nominations: ‘This Is Insane’

The Brothers Osborne have been Grammy darlings for a few years now. The brothers were first nominated in 2016 for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for “Stay a Little Longer.” Then…

TWIN LAKES, WI – JULY 20: John Osborne and TJ Osborne of Brothers Osborne perform during Country Thunder – Day 2 on July 20, 2018 in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Country Thunder)

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The Brothers Osborne have been Grammy darlings for a few years now.

The brothers were first nominated in 2016 for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for "Stay a Little Longer." Then in 2017, they were nominated in the same category for "21 Summer" and in 2018 for “It Ain’t My Fault.”

This year at the 61stAnnual Grammy Awards on February 10, the duo is up for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for “Shoot Me Straight” and in the coveted Best Country Album category for their album Port St. Joe.

“Being nominated for a GRAMMY is genuinely something you dream of as a kid," John Osborne tells us. "When you’re sitting in your room learning to play a guitar solo for the umpteenth-jillionth time. You think of yourself like, ‘I want to be on stage one day. I want to be nominated or win a GRAMMY,’ but to you it’s just a dream. It’s like, ‘It probably won’t happen,’ then all of a sudden you wake up and you’re like, ‘We literally just got nominated for a GRAMMY, and this is insane.”

To make life even sweeter, the guys are currently sitting in the Top 2 on the Billboard Country Airplay charts this week with their collaboration with buddy Dierks Bentley, “Burning Man.”

The guys are currently touring as part of Bentley’s Burning Man Tour.

-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.