This week, Jim Adams of A Unique Title for Me fame has asked us to choose a song written or performed by someone born in November. I chose TJ Osborne (November 19) of The Brothers Osborne. The song is Stay a Little Longer. The guitar solo toward the end of the song is killer.
The Story
“Stay a Little Longer” is a song recorded by American country music duo Brothers Osborne. The song was released in March 2015 as the duo’s third single overall and the second from the album Pawn Shop. Duo members John and T.J. Osborne co-wrote the song with Shane McAnally. The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards.
The song is a guitar-driven mid-tempo about a man who has an encounter with an “on again, off again” lover and, after the encounter, wishes that they could “stay a little longer.” T.J. Osborne, one half of the duo, told Rolling Stone that “That song gives them everything that we are. It starts off and the verses are really emotional and fragile. You don’t want to be alone, you’re making the phone call, taking the trip to the house and then you’re tearing t-shirts off and it’s this electric thing,” T.J. says. “But then, boom, you’re by yourself again: ‘I’m lying here wishing you could stay a little longer.’”[2] The duo previously recorded the song on their 2014 self-titled extended play, but re-recorded it for the single version with Jay Joyce as producer.[2]
The song first entered the Country Airplay chart at No. 49 for chart dated April 18, 2015. The following week, it entered the Hot Country Songs chart at No. 48. It entered the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart at No. 12 on the chart date of August 1, 2015, and the Hot 100 at No. 99 on October 24, 2015. The song peaked at No. 4 on Hot Country Songs for chart dated January 30, 2016, and No. 46 on Hot 100 a week later. To date, it is their only top 10 hit on both the Country Airplay and Hot Country Songs charts. The song was certified Gold by the RIAA on December 7, 2015.[6] It has sold 607,000 copies in the US as of November 2016.[7]
The music video was directed by Peter Zavadil and premiered in October 2015.[8] The video received controversy due to the fact that it included real life same-sex couples kissing. Band member TJ Osbourne said of the video, “We didn’t want it to be about one person or one couple…[w]e wanted to nail down the narrative that it’s really about something that we’ve all felt and been through.”[9]
The Lyrics
Somethin' like a strong wind is comin' over me
Has got a hold of me, yeah
Thinkin' and doin' things I shouldn't be
Really I shouldn't be
Give it one more call
It's one more "whatcha doin right now?"
It's one more trip to my side of town
And you walk right in
It's one more here we go again
One more drink leads to another
You slide up close to me
Tear the t-shirts off each other
Your hands all over me
I tell myself I'm not in love
But one more time is not enough
One last kiss and then you're a goner
And I'm here wishin' you could stay a little longer
So calm and so cool, yeah I try to be
Like it don't bother me
The last time was the last time
Until I'm all alone
Then I'm pickin' up the phone
Give it one more call
It's one more "whatcha doin right now?"
It's one more trip to my side of town
And you walk right in
To one more here we go again
One more drink leads to another
You slide up close to me
Tear the t-shirts off each other
Your hands all over me
I tell myself I'm not in love
But one more time is not enough
One last kiss and then you're a goner
And I'm here wishin' you could stay a little longer
One more drink leads to another
You slide up close to me
We tear the t-shirts off each other
Your hands all over me
I tell myself I'm not in love
But one more time is not enough
One last kiss and then you're a goner
And I'm here wishin' you could stay a little longer
Stay a little longer
Wishin' you could stay a little longer, hm mm
Whatcha think?