Joey + Rory: Biography

• Overview
• Discography
• Biography
• Related Artists

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• Hank Thompson
• Jim Reeves
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• Dolly Parton

Genres:

Country Music, Contemporary Country Music

Joey + Rory, a country music duo made up of husband and wife singers Rory Lee Feek and Joey Martin Feek, only really began singing in public together when they appeared on CMT's Can You Duet television series in 2008. The duo finished third, but won the hearts of thousands of viewers, providing a career springboard. Kansasborn Rory Feek originally hit Nashville in 1995, hoping to hawk his songs. A meeting with legendary songwriter Harlan Howard resulted in a publishing deal with Howard, and Feek was his lone staff writer through 2000, when he moved over to Clint Black's Blacktop Music, leaving there in 2004 to start Giantslayer Publishing with songwriting partner Tim Johnson. Joey Feek was born in Alexandria, IN, and made her first public singing appearance at the age of six when she sang Dolly Parton's "Coat of Many Colors" at a first grade talent show, and she's been singing ever since. She moved to Nashville in 1998, signing to Sony Records in 2000, and working with producers Paul Worley and Billy Crain, she recorded a debut album, but changes in the label's infrastructure led to the album being shelved. She recorded a second album, Strong Enough to Cry, in 2004, but that, too, was never officially released, although it eventually became available as a download in 2007. The spotlight finally found Joey + Rory, though, in 2008, when the Can You Duet show aired, which led to the pair signing a record deal with Sugar Hill Records and releasing a debut album as a duo, The Life of a Song, on the imprint in 2008. Rory also released a solo album, My Ol' Man, for digital download.

- Steve Leggett, All Music Guide