''Skeletons'' is the third studio album by American

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duo

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. It was released by

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on October 9, 2020. The album includes the singles " All Night" and "

I'm Not for Everyone "I'm Not for Everyone" is a song by American country music duo Brothers Osborne. It was released on April 26, 2021 as the second single from the duo's third studio album ''Skeletons''. The song was written by John Osborne, TJ Osborne, Luke Dick ...

Content

" All Night" was released to radio in 2020 as the album's lead single. The album was re-released on January 21, 2022 with the bonus tracks "Younger Me", "Headstone", and "Midnight Rider's Prayer". " Younger Me" was released in mid-2021 as a promotional single in honor of lead singer T. J. Osborne

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as gay earlier in the year. The track "Midnight Rider's Prayer" incorporates

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's " On the Road Again" and thus credits Nelson as a co-writer.

Critical reception

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rated the album 4.5 out of 5 stars, stating that "Maybe it's true that Brothers Osborne aren't quite for everyone, an admission they shrug off early on the album, but the great thing about Skeletons is how it sounds like they're appealing to wide quadrants of rock, pop, country, and Americana audiences without sounding like anything but themselves."

Awards and nominations

''Skeletons'' was nominated for the Album of the Year award at the 55th Annual Country Music Association Awards and "Younger Me" was nominated for Video of the Year. Brothers Osborne won the Vocal Duo of the Year award based on the strength of the album. It was also nominated for the Album of the Year award at the 56th Academy of Country Music Awards. Brothers Osborne received two nominations at the

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for ''Skeletons'' and Best Country Duo/Group Performance for "Younger Me." The latter won a Grammy.

Track listing

Courtesy of

and Rolling Stone Country.

Personnel

Adapted from liner notes.

Brothers Osborne

*John Osborne – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, background vocals, second lead vocal on "I'm Not for Everyone" *T.J. Osborne – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar

Additional musicians

* Adam Box – drums, handclapping, percussion, background vocals *Jason Graumlich – electric guitar, handclapping, background vocals *Jason Hall – handclapping, background vocals *Jaxon Hargrove – background vocals *

Jay Joyce John Joseph "Jay" Joyce is an American record producer, songwriter and session musician. In the 1990s, Joyce, with Chris Feinstein and Brad Pemberton, recorded and toured as Iodine. He also fronted the band Bedlam, featured on the soundtrack to ...

–

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, acoustic guitar, keyboards, percussion, programming, synthesizer, background vocals *Billy Justineau –

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, 5-string banjo, handclapping,

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, keyboards, piano,

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, background vocals *Gideon Klein –

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*Jimmy Mansfield – handclapping, background vocals *John Peets – handclapping *

Lucie Silvas Lucie Joanne Silverman (born 4 September 1977) performing as Lucie Silvas, is a British singer-songwriter best known for her 2004 debut single " What You're Made Of", drawn from her first album ''Breathe In''—itself a hit in the Netherlands, ...

– background vocals *Pete Sternberg – bass guitar, handclapping, background vocals

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

{{Authority control 2020 albums Brothers Osborne albums EMI Records albums Albums produced by Jay Joyce