Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard are prioritizing their friendship before releasing any new Florida Georgia Line music.
“Right now, I think just working on our brotherhood is kind of top tier, most important for us,” Kelley, 40, said on the Wednesday, February 18, episode of the “Country Outdoors” podcast. “Lord willing, the brotherhood will lead its way home, so we’ll see.”
Hubbard, 39, and Kelley cofounded Florida Georgia Line in 2010, going onto release four studio albums together. The two musicians announced a hiatus from FGL in 2022, each pursuing solo projects.
“I think we’re both focused on the friendship and working on our own stuff still,” Kelley said on Wednesday. “I think time will tell, and I’m excited about what God can do, and I think the options are endless right now. It’s cool to see what time can do, as well. You plan one thing and God and other things happen and things shift and cycles come back.”
He continued, “I think, over the past couple of years, we’ve really even more so tried to allow God to move and open those doors or close those doors, whatever it may be in life and really not have it our way. I think [any] time we get set on something, if it changes, you get frustrated. We’re just a piece of sand in this world and just trying to say, ‘God, take the wheel.’”
Kelly further teased that a potential FGL reunion “does excite” him without revealing an exact timeline for musically coming back together with Hubbard.
Months earlier, Hubbard teased that he also hoped the duo could mend fences.
“I hadn’t spoken to BK a lot in the last couple years, but we’re going on a hike next week,” Hubbard said on the “Human School” podcast in December 2025. “The way I see it is I have a desire for that friendship. I miss the guy that I was partners with for 10 years. I miss my old roommate, my best man [at] my wedding.”
According to Hubbard, their friendship didn’t “have to be what it was” during their band heyday.
Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley shared a cryptic post following his recent reunion with former bandmate Tyler Hubbard. “After going on the hike with T-Hubb,” Kelley, 40, wrote alongside an Instagram Reel on Friday, January 2. In the clip, Kelley can be seen walking through nature before cutting to a clip of the popular Jon […]
“It doesn’t have to equal FGL doing anything, but we need to repair and spend some time together face to face and just walk and talk, hang and go fishing or get a guitar out,” he said. “Enough time has gone by. What’s happened has happened, but there hasn’t been any real repair at all. What I’m hungry for is, let me get my friend back.”
Hubbard further shut down rumors about what led to their friendship breakup.
“There’s not a good guy, bad guy in this equation. There’s not a right or a wrong,” he said late last year. “BK stuck to his convictions and led with his gut and decided to make a decision based on his passion. I set a boundary that I wasn’t willing to cross and it is what it is. We both accepted it way before the internet accepted it.”
Hubbard also claimed that Kelley was eager to work on solo projects over FGL ones.
“We had a really good conversation for, like, an hour. I was able to be really honest. He was able to be really honest,” Hubbard recalled on the 2025 podcast. “He just basically said, ‘Man, I’m really feeling called, like, this is the time for me to do this and I really need your support and want your support.’ [I said] ‘whatever you ultimately want to do, I want you to be happy and I want you to follow your gut and your heart and if that means not doing this, so be it. But I beg you to reconsider.’ That was not the path I wanted.”
Kelley dropped his solo record, Sunshine State Of Mind, in 2021, while Hubbard released his self-titled debut in 2023 and Strong in 2024.
