Cater waiters honored at the Hall of Fame: How Brothers Osborne have come full circle

ABC/Image Group LA This Labor Day, Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum happens to be honoring two of its best waiters in its American Currents exhibit. You see, before Brothers Osborne hit it big, they waited tables and worked in catering at the Hall.

“There was a catering department here that TJ worked in,” John Osborne explains, “and that restaurant right there, I worked there for four-and-a-half years.”

“The intention was to work there for a few months until my career took off, and that took a lot longer than expected,” he laughs. “And that’s just what we did: waited tables to make ends meet. And I would go out on Broadway and play gigs at night, come back here hungover and wait tables. And I did that five days a week…”

Last March at the opening of the American Currents: The Music of 2017 exhibit — which includes a suede jacket and an electric guitar from Brothers — TJ Osborne had a bit of a flashback.

“I worked banquets. I would be working this event, actually,” TJ pointed out. “These very things. I’d come in and set up all of this amazing, like, vegetables and fruits and drinks. And no one would use any of it. And then I’d have to pack all of it right back up that night.”

“So it’s actually pretty amazing to me…” he continued. “And it’s funny to walk in here now and see some familiar faces.”

This weekend, TJ and John play tour mate Dierks Bentley‘s Seven Peaks Festival in Buena Vista, Colorado. They’re also featured on his new single, “Burning Man.”

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