#586 - The Band Perry on Their Return, Eloping in Vegas & Reality of Parenthood
Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast
Nashville Podcast Network
4.8 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The Band Perry sits down with Bobby to talk about returning for a new chapter, why the timing finally felt right, and how this version of the band feels different from the first run. Kimberly opens up about protecting what they built, finding the right sound for “season two,” and what they’ve learned since their early days as the “kids” of country music. They also share the story of meeting in 2020, eloping in Vegas just eight months later, and what it’s like making life and music work as a married couple. Plus, they talk about becoming parents, how having a baby changed their routine and perspective, and why this next chapter feels more grounded both onstage and off.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:10.9 | The day I met him at brunch, we all went thrifting after in Dallas to these thrift stores. |
| 0:15.6 | And there was a Ban Perry T-shirt hanging on the rack. |
| 0:18.3 | He did not know the bandberry. |
| 0:19.5 | He did not know a little song called A Die Young, any of it. |
| 0:24.1 | Hey everybody, Bobby Bones here on the Bobbycast today. We have the band Perry. They've won |
| 0:29.2 | Grammy, CMA's, A-CM Awards. Their song, If I Die Young, exploded back in the day. It was |
| 0:34.4 | a number one country song, also a massive pop song. Now, the original |
| 0:38.4 | band Perry was made up of Kimberly and her brothers Reed and Neil. They went away for like nine |
| 0:43.7 | years. Now, they're back sort of in season two. I mean, the band Perry is back, but it's her |
| 0:50.3 | and her husband now. Now, they got a new song called Psychological. They're out on the psycho rodeo tour right now. A new era, a new lineup, a new chapter, a new, just a lot of news. |
| 1:00.5 | Here's my conversation with Kimberly Perry and Johnny Costello, the band Perry. |
| 1:05.4 | Good to see you guys. Good to be here. I would like to say to your faces what I've said to |
| 1:09.7 | not your faces. |
| 1:13.2 | I think you pulled off the greatest coup ever. |
| 1:15.4 | And I don't know if it got to you. |
| 1:19.6 | Either strategically or not strategically, this was the greatest coup. |
| 1:20.8 | And I want to explain myself. |
| 1:25.1 | You were in the Bamperey with the two brothers. |
| 1:45.4 | That was the Bamperean, you guys were massive. It's kind of hard to be the band Perry without your brothers. So you come back, you, your brother, and your husband. Yep. And then you drop your brother. Now, that's the whole. And I was like, that's the most strategic, beautiful launch back to the Ban Perry ever. Because obviously you want to tour under the band Perry. |
| 1:46.5 | Totally. |
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