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Two men walked into an near where the Band Perry were set to perform on Sunday (July 3) and allegedly made threats that caused the trio to postpone their show until August. Delaware State Police say the show was canceled due to heightened security concerns.

While it’s not clear what the two men allegedly said, it was specific to the concert and would have put the Band Perry, their fans and volunteers and employees at the Freeman Stage at Bayside in Selbyville, Del., at risk. Photographs of the two men have been released. The Delaware News Journal reports that police have described them as being between 20 and 30 years old.

About 2,400 fans were preparing for the sold out show. The cancelation was announced just before opening act Melissa Alesi started. The new date for the Band Perry’s show is Aug. 17, and anyone who bought tickets can get refunds. Security at the venue had increased since the shootings at the Pulse nightclub and the shooting of The Voice singer Christina Grimmie.

After the announcement was made, the Kimberly, Neil and Reid Perry tweeted their apologies and concerns.

To our friends + fans in Delaware — Due to heightened security concerns, and for the safety of our fans, the show has been rescheduled for August 17. While we are sad we don’t get to see you tonight, we love you and consider your wellbeing and security our top priority. We’ll see you soon.

The Band Perry's next concert is scheduled for July 5 in Lewiston, N.Y.

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The Band Perry is an American Country-pop trio made up of siblings, Kimberly Perry Reid Perry and Neil Perry, who formed in 2005.

The band formed after Kimberley initially attempted to launch her solo singing career as a teenager, with Perry and Neil acting as her roadies and opening act as a duo. She eventually combined with her brothers after years of practicing and playing together during their childhood in hometown Alabama, and The Band Perry were born. The threesome embarked on the New Faces of Country Tour in in 2005.

The group were picked up during the summer of 2009 by newly formed Republic Nashville records, an American country label operating under Universal, after being taken under the wing of Country act manager Bob Doyle.

They quickly released their debut single in late 2009, “Hip to My Heart”, which was a success, landing at number 20 on the Billboard Country Chart, and establishing the siblings trademark pop and country blending style.

An EP titled “The Band Perry EP” was produced shortly after, but they achieved major breakthrough success with their eponymous debut studio album “The Band Perry”, which was released in 2010. The album featured the chart topping single “All Your Life”, as well as a host of other catchy country songs that helped the band gather momentum. Their debut album has sold over 1 million copies.

The southern siblings began work with legendary hip-hop producer Rick Rubin on their follow up album “Pioneer” a few years later, before its release in 2013. The second album was as equally successful as the first, serving up a second number one single in the form of “DONE.” for the band.

The trio recently performed before the 2014 Superbowl game, one of the most watched sports spectacles in the world. They’ve also rocked out on multiple sold out tours in the US and been nominated for and won a host of awards such as the Teen Choice awards and the Grammys.

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In the past we’ve seen family bands be one of two things -- really cheesy like the ones on TV like The Brady Bunch or Partridge Family or they could be disastrous like the Davies brothers of the Kinks or Oasis’ Gallagher brothers. However it looks like The Band Perry is something completely different.

Composed of Kimberly, Neil and Reid Perry, this brothers and sister trio has been taking the world by storm with their gritty country tunes and impeccable showmanship. Signed to Republic Nashville, The Band Perry may have been playing together for a long time but didn’t break into the big time until ‘If I Die Young,’ off their self-titled 2010 debut album, released. Since then, they have been dominating in the country music scene and playing to packed crowds of all ages. And perhaps the reason they’re able to charm everyone from your little brother to your great-grandmother is because of their overall interaction with the crowd. Kimberly always makes sure she’s got everyone on the feet and clapping or even invites people to get onstage them with them.

Now well into their ‘We Are Pioneers’ World Tour, the band’s first headlining series of gigs, their clear familial chemistry onstage is tighter than ever. Not only do they support each other onstage, but they sure as hell know how to rock out on the country stage -- so much so, that even the biggest country skeptic will get into it.

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The Band Perry is an American country music group composed of siblings Kimberly Perry, Reid Perry and Neil Perry. This family affair has proven a winning combination Stateside with their two first albums hitting the top 5 of the US Billboard chart.

They have also scored a huge amount of hits on the US country chart, and these singles make up the bulk of their live setlist. It is unusual for siblings not to bicker, yet the three musicians seem in complete unity onstage as they perform pitch perfect renditions of 'Done' and 'Night Gone Wasted'. The smooth melodies sound completely delightful and Kimberley's country vocal really commands the stage and the venue.

The audience clap, dance and cheer along to highlights including a stomping rendition of 'If I Die Young'. The band performs two brilliantly original covers, the already country inspired 'Timber' by Ke$ha and Pitbull and a singalong of Queen's 'Fat Bottomed Girls'. The band brings proceedings to a close with a storming version of 'Better Dig Two' where the trio really showcase their abilities with their respective instrument.

Absolutely amazing... I've seen dozens of shows in many different venues and this trio blew my mind. I've been a fan for few years now and was very excited to finally see them and they are even better live. Can't wait till they come back so i can see them again. In my top 5 favorite shows up there with greats like Garth Brooks To The Band Perry keep doing what you're doing.

Excellent show!! I especially enjoyed the venue and how small it was... it was like a personal concert just for us. My daughter and granddaughter were absolutely thrilled to be within arms reach of the band. It was a very enjoyable evening with fun had by all!

They were okay, but not great. A lot of the crowd left, heard people saying they wished they'd heard more of their old sound. I like the new pop stuff, but felt they overused the synthesizer.

Amazing amazing show. Such a great night of music

Wish I could go see them in Denver

I’ve been with the trio since the beginning and I love the transition of sound

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It was awesome and and wonderful and cool one of the best concerts I've been to wish they would come back to Utah and Ogden Utah and me and my friend was happy to go and I love her music

Enjoyed these guys very much!! My kids love you guys, but you are great for all ages, love the high energy!! Keep up the great work, reach for your dreams!

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Kimberly Perry on The Band Perry’s Breakup: ‘Did We Leave or Were We Kicked Out?’

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In October of 2020, The Band Perry — siblings Kimberly, Reid, and Neil — headed down to Dallas, Texas, to try and give their recording days as family trio one last shot. Unmoored during Covid lockdown and slowly finding their way back to Tennessee from their shared Sherman Oaks, California, house, they made a series of demos with Paul Cauthen’s producing team that never saw the light of day. Kimberly Perry was a fan of Cauthen’s 41 Project , especially his “Cocaine Country Dancing,” and thought the feel might suit them and their Southern gothic inclinations.

And so The Band Perry was no more (at least for now, they’re officially on “hiatus”), gone too soon. It’s an approach that is signature Perry, if you think about it: There have been a lot of early graves in her songwriting (on their biggest hit, “If I Die Young,” and more than one on “Better Dig Two” ) and a lot of thinking about the legacies we leave behind if we depart this world early. Lately she’s been pondering what it means to be reborn, though. Specifically, how some things must die so others can blossom, like a flower growing in decomposing soil or scorched forests, or a trio disbanding so a solo career — her solo career, at 39 — can begin. “Beauty from ashes,” she says. “Not beauty from beauty.”

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To make matters more confusing, “If I Die Young” had crossover success in pop radio. What exactly where they supposed to be, they wondered? From 2015 until 2020’s last Dallas gasp, The Band Perry experimented — in some uncomfortable ways. Their first pop-leaning single, “Live Forever,” seemed at odds with a band that wrote about “the sharp knife of a short life,” a heavily electronic EP failed to resonate (a whole record was shelved), and her first marriage fell apart suddenly and unexpectedly. She describes it as a “dark chapter” in their sound, where they were trying to make everyone happy but themselves.

“I do feel like in that season I abandoned my own voice because I was just trying to take care of my mental health and my spiritual health as a woman,” Perry says. “I sang those songs, and I liked them, but I wouldn’t say it’s representative of what I’m best at.” She recently has been working to get one of them, “The Good Life,” scrapped from streaming services. Written about her ex-husband’s infidelity, she couldn’t stand by it anymore. “It was just absent of hope and sensitivity,” she said. Some things get buried, some things bloom.

Perry doesn’t have regrets about it all – even though it makes her laugh when she sees how pop-leaning so much of country has become since The Band Perry first took a stab at bridging those worlds. At Stagecoach recently, she remembers seeing a male artist introduce his set by stating that he, point blank, attempts to play all genres. “I was like, ‘What?’ How crucified we were for that,” Perry says. “I have no regrets about the exploration, but I do have regrets about not grabbing the reins of our story. There were so many times I was like, did we leave, or were we kicked out?”

Not that Perry even felt at home in Nashville. Mostly on the road or at their farm in East Tennessee, the trio never quite indoctrinated themselves within the Music Row circuit. That changed when she and her new husband moved to town recently, where they intended to start a family and build a community within country music, if it was even possible. She reached out to people to write, “but I didn’t even know if they would say yes,” she says. “I didn’t know if people liked us.”

It was a cold call to Galyon that initiated their meeting, and suddenly Perry had a creative team around her, not to mention one comprising mostly women. “I’ve always been surrounded by boys and never had a such a strong female collaborator,” Perry says, who calls Galyon an “artist whisperer.” It’s also the kind of team that didn’t blink when Perry told them she was planning on having a baby and releasing music simultaneously. “I thought you had to miss one for the other,” Perry said, who married her husband Johnny Costello after a brief courtship. “I had a miscarriage, and I didn’t even know how common they were. I just knew I didn’t want to make choices anymore.” It’s an idea she sings about on “Smoke Em Too”: “ I can be both at the same time. I can be yours, I can be mine .”

Part of that, she hopes, is eventually expanding her reach in Nashville in a way that lets her elevate and guide artists to make Music Row a more diverse and interesting place. Perry is excited about a young sister duo out of Texas called The Lockhearts, and “would love to find a female artist who sings in Spanish,” she says. “It’s a huge part of the population that country hasn’t gotten to serve.”

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Perry is writing now (this afternoon, it’s with Hillary Scott), and expects to have a full album done by the fall. She’s excited about where country music is heading, and how it could welcome a voice like hers into the fold, both after long last and for the first time. “It’s the best season I’ve been a part of,” she says. “The War and Treaty, carving out their space. Brittney Spencer, Carly Pearce, Lainey Wilson, Elle King blows my mind. These women are getting away with cool music and being exactly who they want to be, and they are hits. That’s the dream.”

It’s exactly why she’s happy to be debuting these songs at CMA Fest this week, seven months pregnant, with her past both behind and fully a part of who she is. “I hope people take away that it’s OK to have these contradicting sides,” Perry says. “It’s all a facet in the diamond of humanity.”

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The Band Perry on Being Stuck in Label Limbo and Why They Left Country and Went Indie

In a revealing Q&A after a long silence, Kimberly Perry says it "was worth putting the skids on" their Nashvillian career trajectory to maintain their integrity.

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The Band Perry have gone from dying young to feeling young again. For the sibling trio, it’s not so much about “going pop” as going independent — something they felt they needed to do after buying their way out of their country contract, but also after a brief spell of working with pop labels and big-name producers felt like a creative dead end, too. The five-song EP they released Friday, “Coordinates,” their first collected work to be released in five and a half years, does find them in a very different spot on the map — it’s both electronically focused and intimate, and it feels a hundred miles away from the cash-grab crossover a lot of skeptics were convinced was their end game.

But what will the audiences that so recently filled arenas think of the switch? In the first hours that “Coordinates” was up for streaming Friday, the reaction was fascinatingly split almost right down the middle. Sample tweets: “A good song is a good song — less fuss over classification, just turn the volume up!” “Everybody knows the Band Perry, right? Y’all, they snapped.” “The Band Perry’s new electronic EP is very confusing to me but I think I like it?” “How can you go from ‘If I Die Young’ to this dreadful EP? They don’t seem to know their own identity anymore.” “Can we talk about the Band Perry’s complete genre switch that they are ROCKING?” “The Band Perry going full-on electronic is the strangest yet best thing to happen this year.” And, in a nod to the chorus of their biggest hit, “The Band Perry just buried their country music career in satin with a bed of roses and then sunk it in the river at dawn.”

Variety caught up with Kimberly, Reid and Neil to talk about their belief that a core of fans will come along for the ride. They also explained how they reconnected with executive producer Rick Rubin , six years after their ex-label Big Machine rejected a would-be sophomore album he’d produced for them.

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KIMBERLY: Yes. It’s like The Band Perry and Bigfoot — do they exist?

You announced a while back that you were going pop, but this EP feels like it’s moving on even from what you were doing with those pop singles, to something different.

KIMBERLY: We love the idea of genre fluidity. if I could take back one thing, it was during the transition when “Stay in the Dark” came out, when I said, “This is our first pop song, and our first pop album, with ‘Bad Imagination.’” In that moment, I felt a need to define things, because I had always been standing inside of one country music construct. And so I think I felt a need to over-define that and almost plant the flag in the sand. But in retrospect, getting on the other side of it, I realized, man, it’s really hard to quantify sounds and music, especially when you pull from a lot of different influences and experiences. It’s really just about making music that you love. To be honest with you, in these songs, I’d say there are country elements as well as pop elements… but also Kanye elements and “Yeezus” elements. There are machine sounds in there. It really feels like it transcends [genre]. … At this more learned place, I would say that music is for everybody. We have so much that divides us every day as humans, and music should be this fluid thing that brings us all together.

There was a period when you guys had signed with Interscope on the pop side, and Universal’s Nashville division believed they could still work the Band Perry on the country side. Now you’re out of that deal and independent, and you have different management as well – Philymack in place of Red Light. What was involved with these transitions?

REID: Labels move too slow. One thing that we were realizing, again, is that for us it’s all about being able to let people know right where we are in this moment. And the way it’s all put together, record companies just take too long to release music.

KIMBERLY: We definitely needed folks to believe us when we said, “Hey, this is about the future. It’s not just about the past.” You can be proud of your past but also be obsessed with where you’re headed. And not everybody really agreed with us, if I’m being honest, or bought in in the same way, because I think there was this great temptation to work with the band because of what we had done already.

A label is generally reticent to do anything that can be construed as alienating the audience that came with the act to the dance, and may only relate to them as something that is fixed in time and space and genre, yet there are also fans who are invested in an artist and open to going along for the ride…

KIMBERLY: Totally. And I’ve been a fan of other artists in both those categories so I understand that sentiment. One thing we can all agree on is that the Band Perry has never been your down-the-middle, poster-child, predictable country artist. Fans who’ve dipped into what we do and loved it and followed it know that. Honestly, that perspective is what made us special in country. … And so the fans — either fans of ours or fans of our songs on the radio or just fans of the genre — I think that they know very clearly what we bring. And I hope that even if some of them don’t love the sounds of this new era, they’ll at least appreciate the perspective that we’ve maintained, which is the thing that we’ve loved the most about that genre — its honesty and transparency. And we have worked really hard and fought really hard to maintain not only what we brought there, but also to keep that with us as we move forward. And that was worth putting the skids on. Because we did not want to undo what we had gotten to bring to that genre.

Can you give an example of a moment when this crystallized for you?

KIMBERLY: A big turning point for us was a song off of “Pioneer” called “Chainsaw.” I’m intensely respectful of the writers of that song, but that was not a song that needed to come from The Band Perry’s voice. That was one of those compromises we made. There was this backroom discussion where some people on our team said, “Hey, bro country is big; we need you to compete with bro country.” And I just remember the three of us going, “Whoa. But the Band Perry, that’s not what we do, even inside the construct of this wonderful genre. What we bring is like a feeling – it’s like ‘If I Die Young,’ and with ‘Better Dig Two,’ we have a tinge of darkness. We bring something very specific — why are we softening our voice, even at country, to compete with something that we don’t do?” And we ended up making that compromise because we were sort of given a non-decision there, if you will. And so that was really the moment when we said, ”All right. We’ve got to keep our voice, because everything that we’ve built is being broken down again.”

You had three sort of crossover singles prior to this EP, one with Big Machine, and two with Interscope, which, honestly, don’t sound nearly as interesting as the music you’re making now. It sounded like you were going for the big hit single, just in a different format.

KIMBERLY: The “Live Forevers” of the world, even “Stay in the Dark,” while we liked those songs, there were a host of other influences around them, whether it was producers, co-songwriters or, quite honestly, labels. Everybody sort of had a voice as to what those needed to sound like and where they needed to live in the world. And that was the other thing that kind of led us to going, “We’ve got to make sure that what we’re putting out is Kimberly, Reid and Neil.”

We had some very cool conversations last fall with producers that we respected. One of them was No ID. We went over to his studio in L.A. and he had these rooms with stacks of guitar amps and all these keyboards, some of which we had since our earliest days as a band. We talked to him a lot about gear and why he chose to do things in that way, which is interesting. Then the next night we headed over to Mike Dean’s, who we have mad respect for. His studio had a full wall of modular synthesizers, and there were a billion cables, and it just felt like we were in this weird spaceship sound-making machine. Those guys were so gracious to let us come in and educate ourselves and listen and ask the questions.

You made an unreleased album with Rick Rubin for Big Machine, in between your freshman and sophomore releases and he executive-produced your new music. How did you reconnect?

KIMBERLY: To get perspective on the volumes of songs, Reid and Neil and I will get in the car and just drive. It just so happened that one Saturday last fall, we were on Pacific Coast Highway doing that, asking ourselves, “Do we love these [songs]? Are these ours? How can they be better?” And Shangri-La — Rick’s studio, which originally belonged to the Band and is a very spiritual place — it’s right off the highway there. This light bulb went off. Like, “We’ve got to talk to Rick.” Because he’s always been a compass for us. He lives his life as a minimalist, and he also produces and curates music with artists with that sense of minimalism, and making the most impact. So we called him up and were back at Shangri-La the next week and played him about 10 songs. We said, “Hey, Rick, you know who we are. Listen to these songs and help us figure out where to focus. Because different sides of them represent who we are.” And so he pointed to one song of the batch, out of 20, and was like, “I think you can beat this song, but this is the sound.” And he said, “You guys need to get everybody out of your ethos other than the three of you, and you need to go focus on this sound that you’ve stumbled on, and you need to just go drag it out of the ground and write this body of work with this as your guide.” It’s been such a wonderful coming back to Rick, because all we care about is being truthful and being perceived in the way that we actually are, accurately. And he’s been a really good challenger of that.

What happened back in 2012?

KIMBERLY: It was time to make a sophomore project. And to be honest, you’re scared. You hear all these stories about the sophomore slump. We called Rick and he had us out to Shangri-La where we played him everything we were working on for the second project. He said, “First of all, I would love to make this project with you. Second of all, you don’t have to be afraid. Don’t think about the radio. Don’t think about what you’ve done already. It’s your responsibility as artists to be yourself.”

So we spent two or three months at Shangri-La, and we’d go home to Nashville and check in with everybody. We’d go, “Hey guys. This is what we’re making. Is everybody comfortable with this? Are you hearing singles?” So we finished five songs with Rick and brought them to a meeting with our label at the time, and everybody was just in love — I mean, obsessively in love. There was a party on the bus because we had been told we had our first and second singles in that batch, and they really empowered us to go back and finish. They were like, “Go have fun with the back half of this. Enjoy it! We’ve got what we need.” We were ecstatic. And then a month after, we came back to Nashville for an 11 p.m. listening session in the label conference room. We noticed that every time a song would end, nobody would say anything. It was a very awkward silence. We got through 10 tracks, and the meeting was very abruptly ended. They asked us “what the hell” they were listening to. [We said], “It’s the Rick Rubin project that you loved a month ago!” And I will say that if I can look back in our history at the moment when everything changed, it was that night and that moment.

REID: The things that we had learned from Rick were like oil and water when we brought it back home.

KIMBERLY: So it got shelved immediately, and then we just went into survival mode. It was time to turn in the album and they were like, “We need a single immediately.” So we [decided] to bring the songs we wrote at Shangri-LA and find another producer for them.

REID: We actually have those Rick Rubin songs with us. When we bought our way out of the label, we put in the contract that we get to take those with us. Right now we’re very much wanting to release music that is very present to where we are. But we do have those and would love to release them at some point.

Was this EP as severely DIY as has been suggested?

REID: The four of us — Kimberly, Neil, [co-writer/co-producer] Owen (Thomas) and myself were the [only] ones in the studio. We got a bunch of analog gear, some old synths and drum machines, and just holed up over the past several months.

NEIL: One of the things we wanted from the very beginning was to use analog gear, which gave the electronic instruments the feeling of realness that we that we still wanted to maintain.

KIMBERLY: One thread that we’ve really seen persist is our penchant for language. We love poetry. We grew up on Southern Gothic literature [so] we love those little ingredients of darkness. And so the mood of our songwriting really hasn’t changed much. One thing that I’m proud of is that, even with all of the crazy sounds — like bringing in a Moog, some 808s and drum programming — is that the song remains. That’s been some continuous advice from Rick as we challenge different parts of the song to make them better: does this one hold up on guitar and piano? Us being an indie rock band as kids and then serving our time in country, the songs have always been the most important thing. … Our biggest priority as artists has always been to make music that we love. If that means there’s a banjo on it, let’s put a banjo on it. If we don’t want to put a banjo on it, can we be in a situation where we don’t have to do that?

John Taylor, co-president of Philymack management, says, “If they wanted to stay in the country music scene and continue to make records to sell tickets in that market, they could have easily continued to do that. But it creatively left a void in them. And that’s inspiring to me — like wow, these guys are willing to leave money on the table and are willing to pay money to kind of leave it all behind to go do what they really want to do artistically.” (He says the group paid to get out of its Big Machine contract and get their original Rubin masters back. Big Machine declined comment.) “We don’t hear about that all the time in this world of building brands and partnerships, that they were like, ‘The art really, really, really, r matters to us. So that that lit us up… It’s easy to look at it from the surface and be like, well, here’s these guys walking away from their country fan base. We’re pretty confident a good chunk of this country fan base who aren’t passive country music listeners are along for the ride.”

As for expectations, Taylor says, “We are not strangers to the reinvention thing over here at Philymack. It takes some time,” he adds, and they are looking at gradually reintroducing the band before going for the big radio adds. “There is no exact parallel here, but if you look at some of the teen-pop to now legitimate radio pop acts that we’ve had at Philymack, the first thing I’d point to is probably Nick (Jonas). It was a similar situation, and through a year of telling the story the right way and sticking to his guns and making the music he wanted to make with the collaborators he wanted to collaborate with, he went from ‘Oh, that’s the guy from the Jonas Borthers to being Nick Jonas with a number one radio hit. We have a little bit of a story to tell and we have to shift perceptions, and that’s where you can see the parallels: the world views you as this, and you would like to be viewed as this because this is who you really are. In no way was it ‘Hey guys, go ahead rip the Band-Aid off. Kiss everything you once knew goodbye to reinvent and start over.’ It’s more that they’ve slowly been coming out of their shells.”

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The Slow & Plodding Death of The Band Perry is Finally Over

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There may not be a greater cautionary tale in the history of country music for what can happen when you chase trends and try to forage in the greener pastures of pop than what happened to The Band Perry. The sibling trio of Kimberly, Reid, and Neil Perry was one of country music’s most promising up-and-coming bands in the 2010s. Young and fresh, but rootsy in nature, with sensible yet smart songs, they could create consensus behind their music by crossing the country music cultural divide with excellent harmonies and traditional instrumentation weaved into contemporary compositions. But after veering heavily into the pop realm, the popularity of The Band Perry plummeted, resulting in numerous years and numerous projects attempting to retool the band that ultimately failed catastrophically. Totally forgotten by the country mainstream years ago, and struggling to fill rooms on the club circuit, The Band Perry have finally decided to call it quits, at least for now. In a statement published to social media on March 27th, The Band Perry said, “To our TBP friends and family: We wanted to let you know that the three of us have decided to take a creative break as a group and each focus on our invividual creative pursuits. During this season we will continue to support each other as artists and family in all we do. Thank you for making our childhood dreams come true! Love you all. Kimberly, Reid, and Neil.” This is a huge fail for a band that was supposed to be the future of country music. The Band Perry’s second single “If I Die Young” went 7-times platinum in 2010, leading to the trio earning Best New Artist recognition from both the CMA and ACMs, and “If I Die Young” being named the CMA’s 2011 Single and Song of the Year. A couple of years later the dark murder ballad “Better Dig Two” co-written by Brandy Clark awakened the early influences of country music’s Gothic past, and the #1 helped launch Brandy Clark’s career. The Band Perry went on to win back to back Vocal Group of the Year awards in 2013 and 2014 from the ACMs. In 2015, the brother/sister trio earned their first Grammy Award for their cover of Glen Campbell’s “Gentle On My Mind” written by John Hartford, once again underscoring how this was a band that was capable of bridging the cultural divide in the country music genre. But it was a few months after the “Gentle On My Mind” Grammy win that The Band Perry decided they needed to take a significant leap forward in their careers, and a strong move towards pop would be the way to do it. The opening salvo was the single “ Live Forever ” released in August 2015. Up to that point, all of The Band Perry’s original singles aside from their first had achieved Top 10 success, including four #1s, and two #2s. “Live Forever” was a complete reinvention of The Band Perry’s sound, style, and image, and it stalled at #27. This is when the trouble began in earnest. After their “Live Forever” reinvention clearly failed to find reception with fans, The Band Perry was dropped by Big Machine Records. Then they tried to reinvent the reinvention after a rumored collaboration with Nicki Minaj fell through, at one point claiming incredulously that they were never planning to go pop at all, even though they were clearly on record saying so . They signed a new dual label country/pop deal with Interscope, and released another single called “Comeback Kid” that did even worse than “Live Forever.” This led to yet another reinvention that brought The Band Perry into their “Coordinates” era, ushered in by a 2018 pop/EDM EP that failed to chart at all (despite the supposed participation of Rick Rubin as an “executive producer”), and took The Band Perry from a mid-sized arena act to playing clubs. The last nine years feel like one huge unforced error by The Band Perry. If the band would have stayed the course, they probably still would be securely in the 2nd tier of mainstream country. They would still have a place at the table, the pride of doing things their way, a loyal fan base that would stick with them through thick and thin, and the sense of accomplishment that comes with doing something you love, and making a living doing it. Even though they were already doing better than 95% of the other acts out there playing “country” music, really good was not good enough for The Band Perry, and they coveted superstardom. There are many lessons to be learned from doing an autopsy on The Band Perry’s career. But the biggest might be that being yourself is always the safest bet, and the problem with money is that you can always have more of it. – – – – – – – – – –

Brandy Clark , Glen Campbell , John Hartford , Kimberly Perry , The Band Perry

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Not to be a Debbie Downer, but as an experienced musician, these folks were comfortably adequate in skill

Nothing profound, any decent bar band could play as well,

But they had a certain sense for composition and structure in their music that was quite satisfying compared to the dreck of bro country

But still, I don’t miss them.

It’s a good lesson that trying to be a star beyond your skill and betraying the fans who liked what you were doing just ends badly

I hear that she was delving into the drug scene also and caused a lot of strife within the band it was kept quiet, she had a few abusive boyfriends, and 1 beat her, and eventually she lost interest in country music

Well Debbie Downer, everybody can second guess a success when they lack anything of their own credit. Give these band members time and space, they are plenty young enough.

I think if the band could have stayed the course they’d be bigger than second tier. They were better than Little Big Town which I always kinda put in the same vein as them.

You may be right. Right now there are no true star bands in the mainstream country “group” space. That’s how Old Dominion has won the last five CMA Vocal Group of the Year awards, which is beyond preposterous, and Little Big Town won it six years in a row before them. This is the same thing that happened with Taylor Swift and Kacey Musgraves: the industry puts all their clout behind an act, gives them all the awards, and then when they go pop, you have nothing to show for your investment. It’s even worse for The Band Perry because they weren’t even successful at it.

If you go back and listen to their self titled album, it would have fit better on the radio 3 years ago than it did when it was released.

Especially Kacey Musgraves !, WOW ! I Have Seen Careers Crash and BURN, But, Hers Was the MOST Promising. Even I could Deal with Her LGTBQ Songs, She Made and Sang them From Her Heart. TBP, And Kacey Should Be Cautionary Tales to ALL Newbies in Country Music Today.

100% Her first album was the first country album I purchased on CD. (I previously bought music from other genres)

If you knew Kacey at all you would know she never wanted to be a big star. She was happy playing for a room of 80 and could care less about the money and fame.

So what happened?

That doesn’t make her last album listenable no matter why she did it

Why All Words Capitalized, Are You Having A Stroke?

Taylor Swift won big on this gambit though. And her pop stuff is miles better than her country songs.

Because her “country” songs have always been pop songs essentially. I remember my old boss showing me her music in 2007 and I didn’t hear anything country about it.

I always thought “If I Die Young” kind of contributed to the end of their career. It was played to death and they tried to replicate it. Too much gloom and doom.

What if they really wanted to do pop and rock? Maybe it wasn’t a mistake in trying to advance a career but a choice of how they wanted to make art?

Well one thing you can’t question is their commitment to the bit. But when Kimberly Perry went on record saying they had always been pop, then later turned around and said they’d never been pop … only to turn around and say they always wanted to be pop again, I’m not sure they really knew what they really wanted to do. You look at some one like Hanson, they caught hell for being a silly boy band, but they have stuck with their guns over the years, and are a serious band, even if they don’t play big venues. With The Band Perry, clearly they had aspirations beyond country. Also, there was a quote from Scott Borchetta around the time of the transition, something about wanting to “develop into an arena act” or something.

They fit the bill of a “country” act exploiting the genre to ultimately transition to pop. These people are easy to spot; they don’t listen to country music in their free time. The Band Perry strikes me as the kind of people who only listen to music that is current. I always changed the station when their songs came on anyway.

Carpetbaggers who think their condescending idea of trailer trash will be too dumb to know the difference

If Scott Borchetta said that he wanted to develop The Band Perry into an arena act, he must have had delusions of grandeur for them that they couldn’t possibly fulfill. And besides, didn’t Borchetta already have Florida Georgia Line, the “Barons Of Bro”? (he asked rhetorically)

As to The Band Perry’s demise, I don’t think their failure to develop into a big act was caused by the mere fact that they “went pop/country” (I think that’s an argument that country music has had on and off for almost seventy years now, and is still having) so much as it was caused by the way they did it. High points like “If I Die Young” and their cover of “Gentle On My Mind” seemed to say that it wasn’t necessary for them to become a loud arena act, just one that was able to fill actual concert venues (which–and I make no bones about it–arenas and stadiums ARE NOT).

For them to have been anything even close to that, though, Kimberly Perry would have had to have been a vocalist who projects well; and I think she fell short there more than she succeeded. With material like the aforementioned “If I Die Young”, “Gentle On My Mind”, and others of the folk/bluegrass variety, she was in a good enough “zone” as it were. But when she tried to “rock”, especially on the loud stuff like “Done”, her vocal limitations got dreadfully exposed. To do that stuff in a real cohesive way, you kind of have to be Linda Ronstadt or Pat Benatar, and she never was.

I won’t go into the business of bashing them like others here will, and have already done. I’m trying to offer my own careful analysis of where they went wrong. Their demise is a loss for country music in one way, but in another way, because they (or their handlers) got too greedy, they bought that demise onto themselves (IMHO).

Used to really love this band when they were good. I think they could’ve been huge had they kept on the country path especially considering mainstream is starting to sound more country.

What’s wrong with Live Forever? I love that song, especially when the Highwaymen covered it, and Billy Joe Shaver was one of the greatest songwriters ever.

It’s a different “Live Forever”. They are similar in that they both technically are songs. That’s about it.

Haha, thanks for the response. I was starting to worry that my dad joke was getting an even worse response than the ones with my kids at home…

I love “Live Forever”. Even the BJS/Big and Roch collaboration is amazing. Honest mistake because I’m not familiar with The Band Perry either!

Best thing since Hendrix covered “Hey, Joe.” Boudeloux Bryant and Carl Smith were so proud.

Just speculation on my end here, but I’d say that her brothers were the ones pushing the pop/EDM experiment which clearly failed and was likely a huge factor in the collapse of this band. After all, Kimberly Perry has suddenly re-emerged as a solo artist with a new record deal in pursuit of country music again. Whether or not she will be accepted again by country music fans remains a mystery. Only time will tell, I suppose.

I saw them play in my home town back when they were still making hits. Sounded great. Always loved Kimberly Perry’s voice. I still feel like she’d be a great solo artist. Maybe do an acoustic album.

I never understood the leap to weird EDM pop the band perry, little big town, and zack brown band all made around the same time. All 3 failed at it, too.

I get the feeling there was somebody in the industry advising them to do so. EDM/electronic pop was the “new horizon” of genres for pop artists to experiment with in the early 2010s; I’d assume they were trying (or were told) to get ahead of a trend by cutting EDM pop tracks, but radio-EDM-pop was already on its way out by the time any of these artists released their singles. This is completely a suspicion, but it sounds like a lot of 2nd/3rd tier radio country acts received similar advice and then failed.

EDM was the “next” big thing for a reason. It never really caught on in the mainstream so it was going to “next” time. It may be fun to party to but it is just a melody sung over electronic noise. There’s nothing creative about it. The Beatles did it better when they sang walrus over an ambulance siren

I liked a few of their songs. They never came off as lifers in the country world, the brothers, especially. Random thought, LeAnn Rimes pulled some of the same junk. I saw her the other day, I preferred her voice with a lil twang.

Not that I care for her music, but I’d give Leann Rimes a pass, considering she reached stardom in country music at the ripe ole’ age of 13. Who has any idea of who they are at that age?

There is a video on YouTube of the The Band Perry interviewing Brandy Clark and Chris Stapleton backstage at the ACMs several years ago. The whole thing is completely vapid and tone deaf on the part of the band. They keep asking Stapleton if he and Justin Timberlake are going to do a record together “like Kanye and Jay-Z.” Understandably, Stapleton seems pretty irritated / uncomfortable with it all. Then he tells the story of how Garden & Gun was supposed to put Merle Haggard on the cover of an issue, but at the last minute substituted Stapleton without telling anyone. He criticizes the magazine pretty vehemently, and is really sticking up for Merle. (It is almost like a mini country “protest” moment, as you are so good about chronicling, Trigger.) The Band Perry was completely incapable of engaging in even the slightest bit of substance, and they just laugh awkwardly and quickly try to change the subject. It wasn’t entirely clear whether they even knew who Merle Haggard was, or the point that Stapleton was trying to make. I have no reason to doubt that early in their career they were a good country act, but at least based on that one little moment of country music history, you would never know it.

Sturgill Simpson was also incensed over that “Garden & Gun” cover and let them hear it.

Here’s the video:

https://youtu.be/S2q59f02qNc

Wow that’s pretty awful.

I don’t think there’s anything ideologically wrong with their career. They wanted to do something different and it flopped. Since they wanted to be superstars, it’s better that they tried and failed than never trying at all. The marketing is a separate issue, I think.

Barely a single person said this would be a good idea. If you remember they were deleting comments on their social media as fast as they came in.

I’m surprised they bothered making an announcement. I still don’t understand how they went under right after winning the Grammy.

Milli Vanilli won a Grammy. Not that it matters, the Grammies aren’t credible to me.

They also had their Grammy revoked.

Should the band perry have done a pop song? Sure anybody who is anybody has. If someone as uncompromising as emmylou Harris could cover on the radio there’s room for the band perry and others. The problem is that so much of what came out of Scott bordchetta and big machine was such a cash grab. By the time these artists realize they’ve been screwed most of the fans move on

I just listened to “Live Forever”. Not bad but forgettable. I don’t know much about top 40 pop music.

That “If I Die Young” was haunting.

They never were purely Country, but when their first album popped on the scene I thought it was a brilliant mix of Country, Rock, and Folk. And, unless they were embellishing, they did most of their own writing, so it’s hard for me to write them off as a manufactured act. Anyways, I thought they were a pretty surefire bet to have some staying power. They must’ve wanted that Pop thing a bunch, or listened to a fool.

I agree with the assessment of the ZBB. On that tangent, I think that their “Jekyll+Hyde” album was the beginning of the end, or at least the decline. I liked some of its artistic venture, but personally, I am a major, nostalgia-driven, country fan, and I know many of the country music listeners are the same way. Therefore, if you just jam on the breaks and swerve to a completely different sound, it can surprise them at best, and alienate them at the worst.

I then think that the ZBB tried to reverse the process by making “Welcome Home,” with songs like “My Old Man” (my personal favorite) and “Roots,” but country fans tend to remember, and so I think that their reputation has never been the same. With T-swift, she always leaned more in the pop direction, but always (and still) has a clear love and passion for country music and its fanbase, and so keeps her appeal.

With TBP, this is hard for me to do, because I’ve loved them as country artists, but they are the classic example of “killing the golden goose.” They had a niche genre that got them followers, and in my opinion, the style that they brought with their first album would be a breath of relief with all the country-pop that’s on the radio nowadays. Their one fault was that they failed to understand who their audience was. And, like @Trigger said, they continued to double-down on their transition rather than take a step back and realize that this was a bad move. Let’s not forget also, that key differences between TBP and T-Swift were that Swift already was double-dipping with pop success as well as country for nearly 10 years before she transitioned with “1989.” This gave her a set of two successful, established camps that she kept a strong fanbase with, and continues to be respected in both. TBP’s transition came off as an “f— you” to their fanbase, myself included.

My conclusion to this longwinded comment is that the whole thing is kind of sad, as I was a big fan of theirs, and much of my young introduction to the country radio came from their songs. I remember hearing songs like “Done,” “Better Dig Two,” “If I Die Young,” and “All Your Life” (my favorite of theirs) on the radio of my dad’s old truck. There is certain nostalgia to their music for me, particularly the two previously mentioned songs, as they were a breath of fresh air from all of the “Bro Country” that dominated the airplay at the time. Personally, I continue to listen to their old music, and keep the memories that I had in the same special place. “All Your Life” takes me back to a much simpler time and I would honestly rejoin TBP’s fanbase if they made music like that again. Thanks 🙂

A similar story could be told for Zac Brown Band. Although at least ZBB had a sustained period of success before trying to conquer the music world. The success from those first 7 years let them come back to mainstream country even after their pop gamble failed.

if Band Perry had waited 1-2 more albums to try the direction change, they would’ve had a bigger safety net for when it failed. And by waiting, they may have seen that the EDM/pop fad wasn’t here to stay. TBP could’ve had success in the 2023 mainstream country universe where things are slowly becoming more organic.

Zac Brown Band also reversed course. He saw the writing on the wall. The Band Perry doubled down.

What’s funny is that the more traditional-country-sounding “If I Die Young” did better on pop radio than any of their purely pop releases (it crossed over to #12 on the Top 40 radio charts, went #1 at AC and Top 5 at Hot AC in the era of Katy Perry and Lady Gaga). That may have been part of the impetus to start releasing more purely pop singles.

Early in their career, CMT ran a special showing them performing in their hometown, as well as in a warehouse setting. When I saw it, I really understood their appeal. They played and sang and performed well, and Kimberly had a voice and plenty of charisma.

Whoever writes a thorough account of the rise and fall of Clint Black needs to write one on The Band Perry, too. I think both would be fascinating.

Do tell? I thought it was because he wanted to spend more time with his family and his independent label went bankrupt?

He did some great podcast appearances to promote his latest album and I catch one of his interviews on Circle occasionally.

Clint Black’s career went to the toilet because he stopped putting out traditional country songs. Both the song and video for Summer’s Comin’ were insufferable, and nearly all of his songs after that had a similar sound. It blows my mind why artists do that. It’s taken me about 25 years to want to start listening to his early country stuff again because of his change in direction.

The Band Perry is a family group that was formed in the early 200s featuring a teen girl and her kid brothers. When they got their major label deal, the girl was in her 20s and the brothers were still teens.

By its nature, such a group is of a time and place. Trig, you want them to stay what they were? They grew up. If they have musical talent, they probably want to go their own way. It would be phony and absurd for the men who are in their 30s to continue an act as the little brothers.

Hey, the Judds were great, but Wynonna, when she was in her 40s, asking Momma to tell her about life or for her permission to date got artificial and was not what she wanted to do anymore. She went off on her own and made some great stuff in the ’90s (not enough), but she reportedly has a major new project coming out shortly.

Damn, I shouldn’t post without proofing. Misspelled “is” and “its” above.

I got you. If you ever want edits, just leave a comment below requesting them, and I will take care of it.

I loved The Band Perry when they were in country. I saw them in concert then several times, met them often, met their parents and grandmother, went to their fan club parties, etc. If they were still in country, I’d still be going to see them as often as possible. They had certain candy favorites and I enjoyed bringing them a bag of goodies at each show. I do miss them. A lot.

They weren’t bad back in the day. I think they should have stayed with that early sound. They probably wouldnt have blossomed into huge stars but could have did well enough to make it further. But maybe going pop was what they really wanted to do and sometimes you have to bet on yourself. They just came up short.

Zac Brown has entered the chat.

They had a short peak but made some great music. I will always wonder if the label is partially to blame for not knowing how to push the trio with the rise of bro-country

That could very well be the case with the “Live Forever” single that flopped. But after that, they were dropped by Big Machine, and were calling their own shots. Maybe Interscope wanted them to continue on the same path as well, but nobody was forcing them to sign anything at that point.

Good point. None of it adds up to me. It would be nice to know the whole story. I hope in time they find themselves and are able to have a second act.

The problem, is anyone who believes anything this group ever did was country.

If your position is, “Darn, they were country when they started; too bad they went pop.”, then you have no idea what C(c)ountry Music is and have no business talking about it.

Honk: you and I probably agree as a general rule but disagree on the finer details

I’d love to pick your brain

For starters, we probably disagreed about exactly when and where country music as an institution, began, and about where it ended.

I usually call country music as an institution beginning with the great speckled Bird recording by Roy Acuff.

And as a rule, I see country music stopped being country music, right about 1980

There are some examples of country artist to record in the 90s ( like randy Travis) that I consider honorary country artists but do not hold them to the same distinction as the country artists of the 50s 60s and 70s

If I recall correctly, you aren’t particularly invested in other styles of music. But I don’t remember, is whether or not, you’ve offered an opinion on western music as a genre, or Bluegrass music. Or if you consider those parts of country music or separate

When country music is done correctly, it isn’t too far removed from Bluegrass. But from my perspective, I am taking Bluegrass and making it the bellwether for how country something is. Because Bluegrass has more or less stand true to its traditions.

Now, let me be clear, there are artists from other styles of music that I enjoy. I like some of the hits of Broadway, there are some jazz records I have enjoyed, there are some rock groups that I like. But I do not feel particularly invested in the styles of music as art forms. I just like the individual albums, sometimes even the catalog of artists as a whole. But I do not consider myself as being an enthusiast of that style of music. Nor do I Try to hold strong opinions on matters relating to jazz. That is for people who like jazz to decide. I am more of a window shopper with jazz. I look I listen and move on

But I want all of the styles of music to remain distinct. Just because I like country and some jazz doesn’t mean I want to mix the two of them. I like spinach puffs, and I like coconut cream pie, but only an idiot put them together.

My specific area of expertise in music, is what I call traditional music. Uncle Dave Macon, the skillet lickers, bascom Lunsford.

And while all of that music is the corner stone, on which both country and bluegrass are erected, I don’t consider uncle Dave Macon, a country artist Any more than I equate Chuck Berry to dragon force, or Guns N’ Roses

Fuzz, My opinion on this isn’t strong enough for me to say you’re wrong. I’m okay with with your beginning and end markers. If you pinned me down though, I’d probably say the beginning was what Ralph Peer did, and I’d put the end in 1997, specifically the meteoric rise of Tim and Faith’s “It’s Your Love”. That song, at the time, was rock bottom as far as I was concerned. There had been a lot of bad songs prior to that, but for some reason that one sealed the deal for me.

How did you land on 1980 as your end year?

Honk: I was 1980 as a good bellwether, because it was the first election year that people voting for the first time would have grown up in a world without Patsy Cline, ira louvin, and little Joe Carson

Hee haw was eleven years old and had basically lost its earlier brilliance and was becoming formulaic

The Bakersfield sound was comfortably on its way out. Buck Owens having lost his commercial relevance alongside the success of hee haw

The outlaw movement had come along, and, depending on your perspective on the country music timeline was still happening

The new crop of country stars were more urban, with more drums, more electric bass instead of string bass

The CBS rural purge might as well have been ancient history. The country music audience probably wasn’t watching Green acres Gomer Pyle, or Andy Griffith in the evenings

They most likely would have been watching all in the family instead. I show that takes place in New York.

The most country parts of country, specifically, the acoustics, some of the harmony aspects, the Banjo, dobro and the mandolin, had been edged more into blue grass than main stream country music

Porter Wagner had moved to Opryland, as opposed to his own studio, and was more of a theme park attraction on TV than a legitimate program.

It’s well established that there was a stretch starting sometime at the end of the 70s and running until the arrival of people like Ricky Skaggs, where country music was pop, influenced, similar to what we are seeing today.

From my perspective, it never really went away. Not that I dislike Ricky Skaggs. I think Ricky Skaggs is a remarkable musician, but he’s made it clear that he was always a bluegrass musician doing country, as opposed to being a straight down the road country musician.

Folk and traditional songs had lost their place in mainstream country music. Even 10 years earlier, it was not uncommon to hear, foggy Mountain top, foggy river, or mole in the ground, to say nothing of soldiers joy, Arkansas traveler, Frankie and Johnny, the Knoxville girl, poor Ellen Smith

By 1980, all of the roots of country music we’re no longer relevant in mainstream country. It was slick, polished, even, and made for TV

So I look basically at the end of World War II up to the election of Ronald Reagan, as being the prime of country music. As well as being the prime of American television culture. And maybe that’s my bias because I love a lot of the shows that the CBS rural purge did away with.

Genuinely have no idea how you could listen to a song like “If I Die Young” or their cover of “Gentle On My Mind” and think they weren’t making country music

Gentle on my mind wasn’t exactly a country song by the standards of the time anymore than take me home country roads was

Sure, John Hartford may be the only person in the country music Hall of Fame to not actually have been inducted. Sure he played the fiddle and the banjo, on hee haw alongside Roy Clark, grandpa Jones, and Ramona Jones.

Country music loves to lay claim to John Hartford. But John Hartford was really an old time musician.

John Hartford musically had more in common with uncle Dave Macon or string bean, then with the country music of his contemporaries

In fact, if you take the song, gentle on my mind, and compare it to the other iconic country songs of a similar time. It’s quite distinct. Specifically, because John Hartford, as a composer, wasn’t really composing songs that fit the bill as country in the current climate.

And I’m going to go a step farther and claim that Glen Campbell wasn’t exactly the most traditional country singer around either. So it makes sense for him to pick a song that wasn’t a straight down the middle honest to God country song. Glen Campbell was a wrecking crew guitarist for years before becoming noticed as a singer. And an awful lot of those sessions were outside the country fold. They were early rock ‘n’ roll, they were rockabilly, And Glenn Campbell was a pop country singer. Country music loves to embrace Glenn and exalt him alongside and the other more traditional country singers Because of his sheer talent and the quality of his record output. And the same thing happens for John Hartford. Country music has retroactively embraced him as being right there, equal to all of their own, when he was just as much an outsider of the business at the time as John Denver was.

Country adjacent, country, influenced, country stylized, but if Vern Gosdin and George Jones were making country music, John Hartford, sure as hell wasn’t

So it makes more sense. If you look at it in that light, as gentle on my mind, being a pop country crossover hit by an independent artist, who was frequently incorporated into country music spaces that got recorded by a pop country superstar, it makes sense that the band perry, who were in acoustic pop group, that had success in the country genre because of their acoustic work, Which didn’t succeed for them in top 40 Pop, it makes sense that a group like that would cover a song like that. In fact, it’s the logical procession of things.

And please do not take this as any kind of criticism level did Glenn Campbell. Glenn Campbell, is in my opinion, the greatest recording guitarist, who ever walked the Earth. The amount of jaw-dropping solos Glenn recorded for hundreds of other artists before launching his own solo career with a peerless singing voice, that is instantly distinctive, and bringing Guitar chops that have never been surpassed to a solo career that recorded songs that sounded country, covers of songs that were pop, covers of songs that came from rock, as well as playing, Jazz and blues on the guitar.

There’s a reason Eddie Van Halen wanted to get lessons from Glen Campbell.

But I consider Glen Campbell as being bigger than just the country music genre

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Hi Tom, By knowing what C(c)ountry Music is.

If those songs are not country music, then I would love to know what you think they are

It’s definitely not pop music with the organic country instrumentation they have

Just because you have some kind of bias against mainstream country music, that doesn’t mean that most of the music The Band Perry made before their heel turn wasn’t country

Especially more so than their peers at the very least

I grew up in the 60’s on country music and felt how u do for a long time but as I age I have come to understand that artist like George Strait, Chris Stapleton, Garth Brooks, Hank Williams Jr etc after every bit as good and every bit country as what came before them. As time passes all things change and artist reflect their sound, their voice and like TBP they can’t hold a sound, they have a sound and it resonates or they fade. TBP were a teen band so they were handled probably from the beginning. They must be pretty young still so writing them off may be premature as individual artist.

I always really loved their first album, and still do to this day. Their second album had some great songs as well (Pioneer, Better Dig Two, Mother Like Mine, and I Saw a Light come to mind as standout songs). The Big Bird/Live Forever era was an incredibly costly mistake that killed off one of the better mainstream acts at the time, sadly. Supposedly, Kimberly is coming back to country as a solo artist. She is slated to perform at CMA Fest this year. I’m intrigued.

Holy shit, the lead singer is unrecognizable these days. She was a 10 back in the day, but damn, she had to of blown whatever she made on some plastic surgery.

What a waste.

the “yellow” era was… i dunno….DEVO?

Big Bird. It was Big Bird.

I could be off base, but I always viewed The Band Perry as a family band that probably grew up playing Bluegrass and Traditional Country with their family, but likely preferred pop and radio music as part of a younger generation. They scored some success with the combination of the genres, Bluegrass, Country, and pop, but likely had dreams of transitioning to a more pop country direction all along.

Also see Kimberly as the leader and real focus of record labels with the brothers pretty much just following in her wake. Not surprised she has decided to go out on her own and try to reinvent herself again. Surprised it took this long.

They were always frauds.

During their pop transition, there was a poster here called Marie who documented how they were originally a Christian band that suddenly became country because country was more popular. They were always trying to become a larger brand.

It was pretty clear that they listened to the top 40 on the tour bus and not country music.

Oh my gosh I miss Marie

We have lost many great posters over the years.

Her documentation on the TBP was first-rate.

I miss Adrian. His Taylor Swift analysis was magnificent.

If you’re able to find any of Marie’s best comments, please post some links to them; SCM’s comments section has insights unlike any other music site.

Check out all the articles on TBP during their transition period.

Let’s face it, they played us for chumps.

Yeah but that Kimberly is so darned cute! So there’s that!

What I dont get is if they were fully committed to this change of direction, why was the vast majority of their set even at the end made up of the 2 albums and not pushing their new sound.

I appreciate the Zoolander faces they’re making in the photo.

I’m intrigued that I read Kimberly Perry’s name as one of the songwriters/performers in the Live in the Vineyard Goes Country Festival in a set with LANCO, Jackson Dean, and Wade Bowen. I have no reason to know otherwise, but it is possible that it was the brothers that wanted the new pop direction? And Kimberly is revisiting her roots now as a solo artist?

I don’t read this site, story popped in my Google Feed. Maybe everyone here is a big happy country clique, here is an outsider take:

I live in upper midwest, grew up in farm town in 80s, parents listened to Kenny Rogers, I was into Def Leppard. I remember in 90’s when Garth Brooks ‘broke’ country single handedly with his KISS childhood infused into Oklahoma rural.

When ‘pop’ moved away to autotune and boy bands, real bands faded until country moved towards ‘bro country’ which I loved because it filled that void.

To me, pop crossover began in earnest when Taylor Swift did the show with Def Leppard. Follow that to Florida Georgia Line collaberating w Nelly and stuff was getting blurry.

Then like the Dixie Chick episode, politics chilled the Country/Pop love fest with the 2016 election, be honest.

Everyone went back to their corners, and bands like The Band Perry got hung out to dry. Florida Georgia Line and Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton dropped heavy churchy country albums and kept their buses going.

Based on the current political climate, pop country crossover is DOA, RIP.

Their former manager is now managing the generically generic artist Russell Dickerson.

And now Kimberly’s going for the solo career she always wanted. Her first single is “If I Die Young (Pt. 2),” which is such a generic dance-pop sounding record (described as a “sequel” to the original song) it just has to be a mainstream pop country hit. In fact, it reminds me of the pop radio mix of Shania Twain’s “That Don’t Impress Me Much.” Off to a fast start on the Mediabase airplay charts thanks in no small amount to payo- I mean, “an airplay deal” from the iHeart stations.

I’m going to assume that the argument for why this worked Taylor Swift and didn’t work for them is because Taylor Swift is hot and that she was already kind of Pop-leaning when she started, so going fully into mainstream stuff wasn’t jarring for fans.

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PLANT CITY, FL - The Band Perry has canceled its scheduled March 3 appearance at the Florida Strawberry Festival, organizers said this week. No reason was given for the cancellation. Festival officials said they will announce a replacement soon.

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“ Dream On ” was Aerosmith ’s first big breakthrough hit. The song continues to be one of the hard-rock band’s signature songs. Yet, founding guitarist Joe Perry admitted that he actually wasn’t initially a big fan of the tune.

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“I wasn’t crazy about the song—mainly because it was slow,” he wrote about the power ballad. My attitude was simple: The only good slow song was a slow blues. ‘Dream On’ was hardly a blues. It was a slow song in a genre that didn’t excite me.”

Perry added, “The five of us worked that song to the point where it became a live show-stopper with the right dynamics. So it fit in with the rest of the album.”

“Dream On” was released as the band’s first single in 1973, and initially peaked at No. 59 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also was a huge radio hit in Aerosmith’s native Boston.

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In his memoir, Perry noted about the song being released as a single, “I had mixed feelings because I didn’t see the song as emblematic of the band. It was soft and we were hard. Yet the song hit the pop charts and started moving up.”

He continued, “I would have been happier if our first hit had been hard-core rock and roll, but a hit is a hit. A hit meant we’d have a better shot at survival.”

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Meanwhile, Tyler also acknowledged Perry’s disdain for the song in his 2011 autobiography, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?

“Joe didn’t like ‘Dream On’ from the start. Didn’t like the way he played,” Tyler recalled. “He felt we were a hard-rock band and here we were staking our reputation on a slow ballad. And to Joe, rock ‘n’ roll was all about energy and flash.”

Initially a minor chart success, “Dream On” became a smash when Aerosmith’s label rereleased it in late 1975. The song eventually climbed to No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, given the group its first bona fide hit, and launching the group into rock stardom.

In his book, Tyler expressed pride in the success of “Dream On,” then noted “I would gladly have traded any gold album just to have [Perry] love that song.” He added, comically, “Wait a minute, I take that back!”

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Kimberly Perry has taken a break from her band, but she’ll soon have her hands full with a little one.

The singer, part of the country music trio the Band Perry, announced Thursday that she and husband Johnny Costello are expecting their first child together. In an Instagram post where she’s posing next to Costello and cradling her baby bump, Perry shared “the best news.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “I’m OVERFLOWING WITH JOY to share that Johnny and I are expecting our first baby in late August!!,” she captioned her photo.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 26: (L-R) Neil Perry, Kimberly Perry and Reid Perry of The Band Perry attend the Build Series to discuss 'The Good Life' at Build Studio on July 26, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Dominik Bindl/Getty Images)

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The “If I Die Young” singer’s pregnancy news comes weeks after she and brother bandmates Reid and Neil Perry said on social media that their trio will “take a creative break as a group” to focus on separate projects.

The Grammy-nominated group released its self-titled debut album in 2010. Most recently the group released the single “NITE SWIM” in 2019.

In an Instagram post shared April 3, Perry announced that she signed with Records Nashville to work on solo projects.

“A good home nurtures you, comforts you, and helps you grow by challenging your ideas while still supporting your dreams,” she wrote. “That’s what @recordsco is for me and my solo voice. I feel so seen - finally.”

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In the same caption, she spoke about meeting Costello in Dallas and marrying “him at midnight in Vegas 8 months later” in 2021, according to People .

Of her pregnancy, Perry said on Instagram that she is “in awe of the Creator’s plan” and that having a family was something she has longed for.

“As a woman and as an artist, I’ve always felt like I had to make a choice between growing my career and growing life,” she wrote. “But YALL - I’m doin’ em both at the SAME TIME!!”

Perry said she will keep followers updated on “BB Costello news as we get it” and expressed excitement “to welcome this little bundle of love to our world.”

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Police are searching for two men after Delaware gig is abandoned

Country trio The Band Perry cancelled a concert in Delaware yesterday (July 4) after receiving threats from two men.

Police are searching for two men after the show at the 2,400-capacity open-air Freeman Stage theatre was abandoned.

The two men went to the Bayside Welcome Center near the theatre at 2:55pm and told a member of security that the concert would be under threat. Police have declined to give precise details of the threats made.

It’s believed the men are aged 20-30. One was wearing green shorts and a green T-shirt, the other blue shorts and a purple T-shirt.

Freeman Stage events director Patti Grimes said the venue contacted The Band Perry’s management and, following a discussion, agreed to postpone the show. It has been re-arranged to take place on August 17.

Grimes said: “You always want to make the right decision, and that might not be the popular decision. Since this is an active ongoing investigation, we are not at liberty to share the details.”

The Band Perry comprise of siblings Kimberly, Neil and Reid Perry. Their self-titled debut from 2010 produced the Top 20 US hit ‘If I Die Young’ and 2013 follow-up ‘Pioneer’ was initially produced by Rick Rubin before Michael Jackson guitarist Dann Huff eventually worked with the trio as producer.

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The Band Perry cancel Delaware concert after two men are caught on camera threatening violence if gig goes ahead

The country band cancelled their Sunday gig at Selbyville
Two men threatened violence if the concert were to go ahead
Venue worried about an incident like Christina Grimmie's death last month
Police are now seeking the suspects, both male and aged 20-30

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Published: 21:55 EDT, 4 July 2016 | Updated: 00:54 EDT, 5 July 2016

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Country group The Band Perry cancelled their Delaware performance Sunday night after receiving threats from two unknown men who remain at large.

The all-sibling band - best known for songs 'Better Dig Two' and 'If I Die Young' - had originally been due to play at the Freeman Stage at Bayside, Selbyville at 7:30pm.

But they called off the concert after two men entered a nearby building hours before it was to begin and 'threatened violence,' TMZ reported.

Cancelled: The Band Perry (pictured) cancelled their Sunday concert in Selbyville, Delaware, after threats of violence. The venue was especially worried after The Voice star Christina Grimmie was shot last month

Suspects: Police say these men made threats to staff at the Americana Bayside Welcome Center, near to where the performance was to be held

The men were captured on security cameras at 3pm entering the Americana Bayside Welcome Center, near where the performance was to be held.

The band was in the location preparing for the show, which was expected to pull in 2,400 people, when the threats were made.

They then discussed the threat with local and state police, and their management, and ultimately decided to cancel the performance, Delaware Online said.

Patti Grimes, executive director of the Joshua M. Freeman Foundation, which runs events at the Freeman Stage, told the site that the threats were specific to the performance and had put not just the band, but also the crowd and venue staff at risk.

'You always want to make the right decision, and that might not be the popular decision,' she said. 'Since this is an active ongoing investigation, we are not at liberty to share the details.'

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The cancellation was announced 15 minutes before before opening act Melissa Alesi was to begin her performance.

In a Twitter post, the band said: 'While we are sad we don't get to see you tonight, we love you and consider your well-being and security our top priority. We'll see you soon.'

The concert was moved to August 18. Those with tickets can also apply for a refund.

Grimes said that the venue has been especially cautious about threats since last month's shooting of The Voice star Christina Grimmie by a deranged fan.

Police said both suspects were between 20 and 30 years old. One man had short brown hair and a beard, and was wearing a purple T-shirt and blue shorts.

The other was clean-shaven with short brown hair and had a green T-shirt and blue shorts.

Anyone with any information is asked to call authorities on (302) 856-5850 or Delaware Crime Stoppers on (800) TIP-3333, or to text 274637 (CRIMES) using the keyword 'DSP.'

Wanted: The suspects are described as being white males aged 20-30. Anyone with information is asked to contact police

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The Band Perry tour rolls on, with a show slated for Tuesday night (July 5) at First Niagara Tuesday in the Park at Artpark in Lewiston, New York. ... The Band Perry canceled a sold-out gig at the ...
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Shortly after their first album took off, the group released a second studio album, Pioneer, in 2013.In the years since, the trio released a series of singles before The Band Perry's final EP ...
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June 8, 2023. Kimberly Perry, at 39, launches a solo career with her EP 'Bloom,' a project that re-centers her squarely in country music. Claire Schaper*. In October of 2020, The Band Perry ...
The Band Perry cancels Delaware concert due to security concerns
Robert Sorrell. SELBYVILLE, Del.—Greeneville, Tennessee-based The Band Perry was scheduled to perform at a Delaware venue Sunday evening but the concert was cancelled due to security concerns ...
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The Band Perry on Being Stuck in Label Limbo and Why They Left Country and Went Indie. In a revealing Q&A after a long silence, Kimberly Perry says it "was worth putting the skids on" their ...
The Band Perry cancels Delaware concert over security concerns
Updated: Jul 4, 2016 / 05:01 PM EDT. (WJHL) - In a post on social media, The Band Perry said it canceled a weekend concert in Delaware show "due to heightened security concerns.". The ...
The Slow & Plodding Death of The Band Perry is Finally Over
The opening salvo was the single " Live Forever " released in August 2015. Up to that point, all of The Band Perry's original singles aside from their first had achieved Top 10 success, including four #1s, and two #2s. "Live Forever" was a complete reinvention of The Band Perry's sound, style, and image, and it stalled at #27.
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Band Perry replaces postponed Lady A Colorado State Fair concert
The Band Perry will now perform at the fair's Southwest Motors Events Center on Friday, Sept. 2. The concert from the country-pop trio replaces a performance from country-pop trio Lady A that was ...
The Band Perry cancels show after a man makes terroristic threats
Country pop trio the Band Perry called off a concert scheduled for Sunday in Delaware after threatening comments that police said two men made a few hours before the show was to take place.
Florida Strawberry Festival: The Band Perry Cancels Concert
PLANT CITY, FL - The Band Perry has canceled its scheduled March 3 appearance at the Florida Strawberry Festival, organizers said this week. No reason was given for the cancellation.
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The Reason Joe Perry "Wasn't Crazy" About Aerosmith's Power Ballad
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Kimberly Perry announces pregnancy amid the Band Perry break
April 13, 2023 1:56 PM PT. Kimberly Perry has taken a break from her band, but she'll soon have her hands full with a little one. The singer, part of the country music trio the Band Perry ...
Country group The Band Perry cancel concert after security threat
Country trio The Band Perry cancelled a concert in Delaware yesterday (July 4) after receiving threats from two men. Police are searching for two men after the show at the 2,400-capacity open-air ...
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Country group The Band Perry cancelled their Delaware performance Sunday night after receiving threats of violence from two unknown suspects who remain at large.
The Band Perry Tour Dates 2024 & 2025
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