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Smoking Outside: An Interview With Susto Front Man Justin Osborne

By: Alec Cunningham

“Every song is a story about what happened,” said Justin Osborne, sitting crossed legged with a cigarette in hand on the third floor of Knoxville, TN’s Preservation Pub. He sat talking about his new album release after a successful show, despite the slight hiccup of a broken guitar string.

The inspiration for the project’s name (pronounced Soosto) came from the chaotic, transitional stage Osborne found himself in during the group’s conception. “In Latin America there’s this folk religion/medical illness where if you go through a traumatic situation they believe your soul can separate from your body,” he said. He loved the idea and felt it was the perfect fit for this project, describing it as a “folk illness.”

The sound of the album is described as “cosmic country,” which he defines as indie rock mixed with country. “There’s also a lot of “out there” themes that find their way into the mix,” Osborne said.

“Black River Gospel” is the first song on the record for a reason. The track tells the story of Osborne’s origins. Growing up, the front man came from a very religious portion of the south. As a child, his first experiences singing came from participating in church. Osborne comments on the track saying, “It’s not supporting religion or condemning it. It’s saying, this is how I grew up and how that fits into my life. It’s about having a changed perspective and juxtaposing that to the perspective I was raised around.”

Osborne even considered enlisting a gospel choir as backing for that track, but he ultimately decided he didn’t want to lose the low-fi indie honesty of the record.

Despite the song title, “Black Jesus” is not a religious song. In fact, it was the best way for him to tell the story of a neighbor named Bernard, who instilled a very enlightening message in Osborne. “He said to me, ‘Jus, you only get one life to live, and you best live every day up. I don’t know if there’s a man upstairs or not, but I think he’d agree with me,’” Osborne said.

As a big fan of confessional poetry, Osborne makes use of this style within his own work. “Smoking Outside,” a song about a night spent with friends, is the best example of this. With a notebook in hand, Osborne wrote down what everyone said that night. After the night’s events, his friend Ashley became the track’s main focus. “Somebody said a joke that she liked, and she said, ‘I love you right now,’ and she heard a song she like and was like, ‘This is a great song.’ And we moved outside to smoke because it was hot inside and she said, ‘It feels better outside than it did in there,” he said.

Similarly, “Friends, Lovers, Ex-Lovers, Whatever” was written from a Valentine’s Day card he wrote to an ex-girlfriend after a friend encouraged him to craft those words into a track.

Being that each song tells the story of a certain time or experience in Osborne’s life, this is without a doubt an emotionally charged album. He said, “It’s about being lost in your late 20’s and having this newfound responsibility for yourself and trying to figure out how to deal with that, whether it be where you’re going to get your next meal from, what you’re doing with your life, or where you’re going to find love.” He wanted it to feel as raw and emotional as a diary entry. He said, “This whole album is influenced by this stage in my life. It’s not just the drugs, it’s not just the alcohol, it’s not just the traveling, it’s not just the friends; it’s all of it.”

Osborne is confident his listeners will be able to relate to the content on this album. “Even if they weren’t there to see it, they at least get the vulnerability that’s coming across.” But because this album came out so naturally, Osborne worries whether his next album can live up to the quality of this one. With the amount of creativity and talent conveyed on this debut album, though, Osborne is sure to be able to follow in his own footsteps on a subsequent release.

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