What Brothers Osborne have learned about home

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Set us as preferred For John and TJ Osborne, work and family have long been intertwined.Today the siblings are known to country music fans as Brothers Osborne, the rock-leaning twosome that’s put 13 songs on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart and been named vocal duo of the year half a dozen times at the annual CMA Awards.Before they moved to Nashville, though, the brothers grew up helping out with their dad’s plumbing business in the late 1990s in the small fishing town of Deale, Md.“You know how every country star opens a bar in Nashville?” John asks.

“I was thinking it’d be funny to start a Brothers Osborne plumbing company that services all the bars.”With TJ on lead vocals and John on lead guitar, the brothers look back at those early days in Deale on their nostalgic new album, “Watertown,” which came out last week, 10 years after the release of their first LP.It’s got handsome, well-drawn songs about long-lost loves and teenage indiscretions, not to mention one tune about some of the colorful Osbornes who don’t play in the band.“We got a mama that you wouldn’t want to take home to mama,” TJ sings in “Family Business,” which rhymes that line with “Got a daddy with a girlfriend who loves marijuana” and “Sister took a swing at her first boy’s father.”“I always tell people that TJ and I are the most boring people in our family,” John says.

“Our sister really did punch her ex-husband in the face.”TJ, 41, calls the album a tribute to the people who shaped him and his brother, who’s 44.“When you’re a kid, you want to run away from home and spread your wings,” the singer says.

“Then at some point, it’s like that place is almost calling you back.” Music The 26-year-old singer has a breakout debut in ‘Cherry Valley.’ She’s up for new artist of the year at the ...