Joey + Rory

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Joey + Rory at the ACM Awards 2010

Joey + Rory was an American bluegrass country duo consisting of the married couple Joey and Rory Feek. Joey Feek died in March 2016.

Band history

Joey Marie Martin was born in Alexandria, Indiana . At the age of six she sang a country song by Dolly Parton in public for the first time in a talent competition for first graders. At the age of 22 she went to Nashville and after two years she found a big label with Sony Records and recorded her debut album. However, the publication fell victim to a restructuring in the publishing house.

Rory Lee Feek was born in Kansas and came to Nashville three years before Joey Martin. Well-known songwriter Harlan Howard signed him as a writer. In 2000 he moved to the label Blacktop Music by Clint Black . Joey and Rory met in 2002 and were married after a short time. Since Rory had brought two young children into the marriage, they forego a career together in favor of the family.

Joey recorded a second album in 2004, which did not make it into the record stores and was finally released as a download three years later. Rory founded his own music publishing company with Tim Johnson in 2004, called Giantslayer Publishing . The two embarked on a short-lived children's music project in 2007 called The Song Trust .

In 2008, Joey and Rory Feek could be persuaded at the show Can You Duet by CMT participate. They went well together as a duo and came third in the competition. Then they got a record deal with Sugar Hill Records and released their debut album The Life of a Song that same year . They got into the top 10 of the country charts straight away and stayed in the official album charts for half a year . They were then named Top New Vocal Duo of the Year at the ACM Awards . Album number two was also called Album Number Two and achieved similar rankings in 2010, although it wasn't quite as long-lived. This was followed by a Christmas album and the third regular album His and Hers , but both lagged behind their first successes.

In 2013 they both went on a foray into gospel and country gospel music with the album Joey + Rory Inspired: Songs of Faith & Family . This brought them to number 6 on the Christian album charts. In the same year, the next country album Made to Last followed , with which they did not get into the Billboard 200 for the first time. With the album Country Classics: A Tapestry of Our Musical Heritage , on which they covered well-known country songs, they were a little more successful just a year later.

Joey Feek had already had cervical cancer in 2014 and pushed it back, but in 2015 she had to announce that the cancer had returned and was no longer treatable. In their final months they re-recorded an album of religious music. Hymns That Are Important to Us was released a month before Joey Feek died at the age of 40. The album reached number 1 on the Christian Music and Country charts and number 4 on the official album charts. It sold over half a million copies and received gold . A music video for the album sold over 50,000 copies and also received a gold award. Her song If I Needed You from the album was nominated for a Grammy Award .

Members

  • Joey Marie Martin Feek (born September 7, 1975 in Alexandria , Indiana ; † March 4, 2016 there)
  • Rory Lee Feek (born April 25, 1965 in Kansas )

  • Joey + Rory 2010

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
US US Country Country
2008 The Life of a Song US61 (27 weeks)
US 		Country10 (72 weeks)
Country
2010 Album Number Two US60 (3 weeks)
US 		Country9 (24 weeks)
Country
2011 A Farmhouse Christmas US181 (1 week)
US 		Country59 (4 weeks)
Country
2012 His and Hers US112 (2 weeks)
US 		Country24 (13 weeks)
Country
2013 Joey + Rory Inspired: Songs of Faith & Family US126 (4 weeks)
US 		Country27 (23 weeks)
Country
Made to Last - Country44 (4 weeks)
Country
2014 Country Classics: A Tapestry of Our Musical Heritage US199 (1 week)
US 		Country13 (18 weeks)
Country
2016 Hymns US4th
gold
gold

(22 weeks)US 		Country1 (49 weeks)
Country
The Album Collection US192 (1 week)
US 		Country10 (17 weeks)
Country
2017 If not for you US50 (3 weeks)
US 		Country6 (6 weeks)
Country
Solo album by Joey Feek, originally recorded in 2005 and published posthumously

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
US US Country Country
2008 Cheater, cheater
 US-
gold
gold
US 		Country30 (20 weeks)
Country
Authors: RL Feek, J. Martin, K. Osmunson, W. Varble
2011 That's important to me
 - Country51 (9 weeks)
Country
Authors: RL Feek, J. Martin, T. Johnson
2016 When I'm gone
 - Country21 (5 weeks)
Country
Author: SE Lawrence

Video albums

  • 2016: Hymns (That Are Important To Us) (US:goldgold)

swell

  1. ^ Joey Martin Feek - Orbituary (obituary), Owens Memorial Services, March 2016
  2. ^ Winner database of the ACM Awards
  3. ↑ Gold / platinum awards in the RIAA database (USA)
  4. ↑ a b Joey + Rory in the US charts (Billboard)

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