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  • Joey and Rory Feek Talk About Their Most Passionate Project Yet

    Joey and Rory are busy working on their upcoming album, and country singer Joey Feek has revealed that it will be their most passionate project yet.

    Joey, who has been battling Stage IV cervical cancer, opened up to People magazine about her love for husband Rory Feek, and that the album Hymns & Stories That Are Important to Us is a tribute to their 13 years of marriage, how they met, and how they have kept their love for each other alive.

    Joey shared to People the first time she saw Rory: “Rory was singing ‘In the Round’ at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville with three other songwriters.”

    “I was just one of dozens of people in the audience that night. From the first song Rory sang, I fell head over heels for him. I didn’t even know him, but something inside me said, ‘You’re going to marry that man and spend the rest of your lives together’” she continued.

    It was a whirlwind romance for Joey and Rory. They tied the knot two months later and in 2014, their daughter Indiana was born.

    As Joey bravely fights cancer, Rory has been documenting his wife’s struggles in his This Life I Live blog. He said writing and sharing little stories about their lives has been therapeutic for him. Sharing their pain through his blog helps him “sort out what I feel and how to respond to the twists and turns that life has taken us on.”

    Rory also chronicles their everyday life through their photos. He was able to capture special moments with her including their “last Christmas together,” and her heartbreaking separation with best friend Julie.

    “Without realizing I was doing it, God has allowed me to capture hours and hours of Joey and her life at home on the farm, raising Indiana and playing music,” Rory shared. “I can’t help but believe that those clips will be an important part of keeping Joey’s memory alive in Indy’s heart.”

    Joey and Rory Feek are releasing their album on Valentine’s Day.

  • Joey Feek: Rory Feek Doesn’t Want to Sing or Perform Once She is Gone

    Joey Feek is still waging her battle with cancer, as husband Rory pens that both of them know the end is near. The country/bluegrass duo known as Joey + Rory have a new album coming out next month. “Hymns That Are Important to Us” went on pre-sale on the Cracker Barrel website today.

    In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Rory says he won’t make any more music once Joey Feek passes away.

    “This is the last record that Joey and I will ever get to make and the last songs we’ll ever get to sing together,” he says. “I have no desire to go on singing or performing without her.”

    Rory and Joey Feek’s little girl, Indiana, likely knows every track on the upcoming album by heart. Joey Feek rocked her to sleep, singing her the songs.

    “Her mama rocked her to sleep singing them and has even taught Indy how to sing along with sign language on ‘Jesus Loves Me,’” Rory tells ET. “Joey singing these songs is a big part of Indy’s life so far, and I know that these songs will go on to be very important to her as she grows up and is able to hear Joey still singing them to her when we play the album.”

    While most of the album was recorded in a Nashville studio, Joey Feek’s final vocals were recorded in a hotel room while she was undergoing chemo and radiation treatments.

    It was this past fall that doctors said those treatments weren’t working, and Joey Feek returned to her childhood home in Indiana, under hospice care.

    In Rory Feek’s blog, This Life I Live, he recently wrote about his and Joey’s understanding that the end is near, as well as Joey Feek’s conversations with Jesus.

    “I’d like to tell you that she’s doing great and is going to beat this thing. But I can’t.”

    Do you think Joey Feek knows of Rory’s plans to stop making music once she passes away? That doesn’t sound like something the Joey + Rory singer would ever want to happen.

  • Joey and Rory Feek Find Comfort in “When I’m Gone,” Song That Appears on Their Upcoming Album

    Joey and Rory Feek are both in turmoil as Joey battles the cancer that is robbing her of life. The country/bluegrass duo known professionally as Joey + Rory, Joey and Rory Feek know there’s not much time left for Joey here on earth.

    Something the husband and wife are clinging to is a song called “When I’m Gone.” It will appear on the upcoming Joey + Rory album that goes on pre-sale at the Cracker Barrel website on Friday, January 15. Called “Hymns & Stories That Are Important to Us,” the album is set for release next month.

    “When I’m Gone” was written by Nashville songwriter Sandy Lawrence. Joey and Rory wanted to record it to help circulate Lawrence’s name. While recording it, they realized it would one day become one of the pieces Rory Feek will have left of Joey–after she is gone.

    Rory Feek writes about recording the song in his blog, This Life I Live.

    “It wasn’t what I wanted… but it’s what the song wanted,” Rory writes. “And though it scared me for us to be that vulnerable, it was also what our whole lives and music career was about – being real… being honest. And so the cameras rolled and both Joey and I let us ourselves imagine what it would be like if she had to leave this world and I was left behind without her.”

    Rory Feek will soon known that feeling. He continued in his latest blog post, sharing about Joey’s recent conversations with Jesus.

    “And now, here I sit beside my dying wife,” he writes. “I don’t say those words lightly. As a matter-of-fact, I haven’t said them at all. But my beautiful bride has said them to me in these couple of days. Her pain and discomfort has continued to increase daily and so has the morphine to help her be comfortable. The dosage she’s needed to keep the pain away has quadrupled in the last four days.”

    “I’d like to tell you that she’s doing great and is going to beat this thing,” he continues. “But I can’t. Yesterday with tears in her eyes and mine, Joey held my hand and told me that she has been having serious talks with Jesus. She said she told him that if He’s ready to take her… she’s ready to come home.”
    Our ‘make-believe’ song and video seems to be coming true.

    “Some call it ‘life imitating art’. I don’t,” Rory pens. I call it God. He knew I would need her to tell me goodbye… not just once, but a thousand times. And I’d need to know that no matter how much time passes, that she loves me still. And He made it so that if I needed to be reminded of her beautiful life and heart and voice… she would only be a ‘click’ away.”

    “Am I angry at the irony of the song?” Rory asks. “No. How could I be? How many men who are losing the woman they love get a gift like that? None that I know of.”

    Back on December 7, Joey and Rory were nominated for a Grammy Award for their song “If I Needed You.” Joey Feek set a goal to live until February 15, the night the 2016 Grammy Awards air.

    Joey and Rory’s album comes out the day before.

    Although Rory Feek writes bravely about what’s to come, he will no doubt be devastated when Joey passes away. One day he will hopefully listen to “When I’m Gone” with peace in his heart.