The Band Perry used to have sibling “blood harmony,” but now things are just looking bloody between the sister and two brothers who used to make up country music’s foremost contemporary family band. Former member Neil Perry has gone public with his far-from-harmonious feelings about the lineup of the newly reconstituted act — which now consists solely of Kimberly Perry and her husband of five years, Johnny Costello.
Neil expressed his thoughts about the estrangement in several Instagram posts. In one, he sits down in a chair in front of shelves of awards he won as part of the Band Perry in their heyday, with the sarcastic caption: “Preparing for my Netflix documentary about how the Band Perry went from three siblings to my sister and her husband.”
In another post, he shared footage taken from two of Kimberly Perry’s recent video interviews, in which she says that her brothers are supportive of her carrying on the act without them — something Neil Perry says could not be further from the the truth, as far as he is concerned.
“I explicitly asked my sister not to misrepresent my support for the current version of the band,” Neil begins.
“By May of 2024, none of us were consistently on speaking terms, and Reid had stopped engaging in both personal and business matters,” he continues. “Kimberly came to me about bringing the band out of hiatus, and we initially agreed that moving forward with Reid was not something we were prepared to do. Kimberly reached out to him, and he confirmed he was not interested. I was then presented with three options: move forward as a duio, hold auditions or have her husband step in. I was fine with the first two, but soon understood Kimberly wanted to move forward with the third. We ultimately decided not to proceed.”
