Kimberly Perry made a name for herself with her Grammy-winning sibling trio The Band Perry, most known for its hit song "If I Die Young." Now she's ready for round two – solo.

Perry announced plans on Monday to release her debut solo EP "BLOOM" on June 9, and its lead single, "If I Die Young Pt. 2," will be available on Friday.

"This absolutely is the project that I've been dreaming about since I was that 15-year-old kid," Perry said in Nashville in April. "I was obsessed with the Dixie Chicks. Then also, I loved alternative singer-songwriters from 1996, specifically."

Then she namechecked Shawn Colvin's "Sunny Came Home" and Paula Cole's "Where Have All the Cowboy's Gone" as examples.

"That informed a lot of my songwriting," Perry continued. "Without even talking about it, I feel like over the last year since we've been working on this collection of songs, all of the threads of my childhood and all the wisdom I've collected as an adult and as a woman has come through on this project."

Perry teamed with famed songwriter/publisher/artist Nicolle Galyon and Jimmy Robbins for "BLOOM." The album will come out as two EPs – one evoking spring and summer and the second fall and winter.

The first single from "BLOOM," "If I Die Young Pt. 2," is a continuation of the story that made the band famous. Perry wrote the original "If I Die Young" in East Tennessee in her mid-20s. She was daydreaming about what her funeral would be like if she planned it while she was still young. She's now 39, she said, and she didn't die young. When she started to write "BLOOM," she couldn't let go of the storyline.

"There needed to be a sequel," she said. "But, it wasn't being told. I had this collective wisdom at this point that some dreams come true. Some dreams haven't come true yet. But, the full journey of life was just like, 'Hey, guess what? Remember when you said there was enough time? There's never gonna be enough time.'"

"If I Die Young Pt. 2" includes bits from the original hit as well as new lyrics that move the song forward and continue the story.

Additional songs on the album include: "Burn The House Down"; "Cry At Your Funeral"; "Ghosts"; and "Smoke 'Em Too." The EP has threads of her infatuation with Southern gothic that was apparent in The Band Perry but also explores femininity in a way Perry could never have while singing with her younger brothers.

She started working with Galyon and Robbins in February of 2022. "Ghosts" was the first song they wrote together, and at the time, she said, they didn't realize the song would be the "downbeat of my solo voice." But she said when she heard the demo, she immediately thought, "This is a brand new me, and this is just me. This isn't me representing three voices. It's me really telling my real-life story and my most intimate feelings in a song."

Galyon pointed out that at 39 years old, this is the first time Perry is seeing her first name used this way – to tell her story.

"I will call this project an evolution, but it's really a coming home," Galyon said. "I'm so honored to get to be a part of it."

Perry acknowledged that The Band Perry's career had "went in so many crazy directions" – many of which she called "as heartbreaking as they could be in the moment." She said that as the trio was stumbling, her first marriage ended up in ashes.

"My heart just really felt the weight of all of that," she said. "I've been researching plant things lately, and it turns out that ashes truly are a wonderful fertilizer. That's what those ashes have felt like in my life. I'm super grateful to be on the side of it and just wanted to thank (the country music industry) for your friendship, and … now I'm creating the space for me to redefine things. I feel like I'm getting to redefine my creative, redefine my voice, redefine my definition of home and ... most important to me right now, which is redefining my name."