{"id":7454,"date":"2016-03-08T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=7454"},"modified":"2016-03-07T13:07:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T19:07:22","slug":"remembering-joey-feek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2016\/03\/08\/remembering-joey-feek\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Joey Feek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you might know, I don\u2019t have many personal country music experiences. Due to my lack of country music knowledge, I decided to search for a person, dead or alive, that has influenced or affected many over the course of his\/her life. After doing some research, I came across a country duo called <a href=\"http:\/\/joeyandrory.com\">Joey+Rory<\/a> and found their story not only inspiring but also a reminder that life\u2019s short.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/03\/Aaron-and-Indy-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7455\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7455 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/03\/Aaron-and-Indy-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Aaron-and-Indy-2\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/03\/Aaron-and-Indy-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/03\/Aaron-and-Indy-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/03\/Aaron-and-Indy-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>Joey+Rory is an American country and bluegrass duo formed in 2008 composed of Joey Martin Feek and Rory Lee Feek, who were husband and wife. Joey was the duo\u2019s lead vocalist, while Rory sang background vocals and played the guitar. The duo placed third on CMT\u2019s competition <em>Can You Duet <\/em>in 2008. That same year, they signed to Sugar Hill\/Vanguard Records, releasing their debut album <em>The Life of a Song<\/em>. The album\u2019s lead-off single, \u201cCheater, Cheater\u201d, was a Top 40 hit on the Billboard country charts, while the album debuted at number ten on the Billboard Top Album Country Charts.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Joey + Rory - Cheater, Cheater (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zu9QM1LQR2g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On March 4, 2016 Joey Feek passed away after losing her long battle to cervical cancer. Joey left behind her husband and two year old daughter, Indiana. Rory Feek documented their life together and later his wife\u2019s diagnosis on his <a href=\"http:\/\/thislifeilive.com\">blog<\/a>. In it, he writes a weekly post about their life\u2019s experiences such as playing with their daughter and visiting friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>On March 4<sup>th<\/sup>, Rory wrote his last blog post titled \u201cA Dream Come True\u201d. This particular post, along with a couple others, really highlighted the importance of treating each and everyday as a gift. In his opening sentences, Rory writes: \u201cMy wife\u2019s greatest dream came true today. \u00a0She is in Heaven. The cancer is gone, the pain has ceased and all her tears\u00a0are dry. \u00a0Joey is in the arms\u00a0of her beloved brother Justin and using her pretty voice to sing for her savior.\u201d Rory explains how glad he is because his wife\u2019s pain is over, and that he\u2019s going straight back home to the South.<\/p>\n<p>Joey Feek had many characteristics of a Country Music singer such as being family oriented and religious. One of her famous quotes was, \u201cWe have a lot of hope up there. You draw off of that, but more than anything, you draw off of Christ.\u201d Celebrities such as Blake Shelton and Carrie Underwood, along with many others, communicated their condolences through social media. Through these reactions, I can see that Joey meant a lot more than just an artist. She always had a smile on her face, even on her deathbed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/03\/Indys-2nd-birthday-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7456\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7456 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/03\/Indys-2nd-birthday-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Indys-2nd-birthday-2\" width=\"324\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/03\/Indys-2nd-birthday-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/03\/Indys-2nd-birthday-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/03\/Indys-2nd-birthday-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you might know, I don\u2019t have many personal country music experiences. Due to my lack of country music knowledge, I decided to search for a person, dead or alive, that has influenced or affected many over the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2016\/03\/08\/remembering-joey-feek\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7454"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7488,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454\/revisions\/7488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}