Artists: Don Williams, Jim Croce, Merle Haggard, Vern Gosdin
Songwriters: Harlan Howard, Max D. Barnes, Gary Burr, Irving Berlin
People: John Wooden, Mike Rosser, my wife Joey, my daughters Heidi and Hopie, and my parents Robert and Rita Feek
Others: Forrest Gump, Rudy, John Keating, Jimmy Chitwood
As one-half of the husband/wife country music duo Joey+Rory, featured on the new CMT/American Idol tv show “Can You Duet”, Rory is a true American storyteller. As a songwriter, he’s written three 1 records in the last few years (Blake Shelton’s “Some Beach”, Clay Walker’s “The Chain of Love” and Collin Raye’s “Someone You Used To Know”) and has cuts by Kenny Chesney, Randy Travis, Terri Clark, Mark Wills, Reba McEntire, Waylon Jennings, Lorrie Morgan, Buck Owens, John Michael Montgomery and Charlie Pride to name a few. Able to write many different styles, he’s best known as a storyteller for the way he weaves unforgettable slices of American life. His latest creation that’s on the current Country charts is new RCA artist Crystal Shawanda’s touching debut single “You Can Let Go”.
Born in Kansas (he rarely wears anything but overalls), and raised up around country music and cornfields, his father Robert was an aspiring singer that worked on the railroad and dreamed of going to Nashville, but never took the chance. Rory vowed to make his father’s dream a reality for himself. And in ’95, he showed up in Nashville in a ’56 Chevy and began hitting the streets with his songs. After a chance meeting with legendary songwriter Harlan Howard, he was invited to his hero’s office and ended up signing a publishing deal where he worked as Harlan’s lone staff-writer for the next five years. He went on to spend 3 years writing for Clint Black’s company Blacktop Music. After leaving that deal in 2004, he and longtime friend & songwriting partner Tim Johnson started Giantslayer Publishing, a co-venture with State One Music Publishing. They have 6 writers and an office on Music Row.
In ‘02, Rory found, self-funded, and along with Tim, co-produced Blaine Larsen’s debut album – independently creating and releasing their own single, video and album that received major airplay and resulted in a major label co-imprint deal with RCA records… an unheard of accomplishment in Country Music at the time. Rory co-wrote Blaine’s heart-wrenching single “How Do You Get That Lonely” that peaked at 15 on Billboard.
This past December, Rory and Tim wrote, recorded, and their label Giantslayer partnered up with Capitol Records Nashville, to release the heartwarming Christmas single “Bring Him Home Santa”... rocketing up the Billboard charts to 29 in just 4 weeks.
Never afraid to step into uncharted territory... Rory and his wife, singer Joey Martin, recently auditioned for, and are part of, the new CMT/American Idol tv show "Can You Duet" that begins airing on 4/14/08. Remaining true to who they are and to the music they love, Joey and Rory are poised to be one of America’s next great country music duos. They live 40 miles south of Nashville in an 1870’s farmhouse in Columbia, along with a herd of cattle (actually only one steer named Shooter), some chickens, ducks, dogs and a big garden.
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Congrads on the show I sure hope both you guys make it to the top your way better singers then the other ones on there my vote gose for u guys all the way keep up the great work that cheater cheater song was the best loved it
Hey, I am slow, but at least I recorded the show so I could see you when I had a minute to sit down! Love you two! You go! Am keeping you in my prayers! Love, Carol :~)
my fav is still 'met him in a motel room'..........WOW! Great audition on CMT....your wife's a doll and I pray you both catch that dream and hold it tight! You ROCK country! Joy Collins
Hey! You and Joey were amazing! I shed a few tears... I was so happy to see you two singing together! I'm going to be watching every episode! I love you second, third... whichever cousin! lol.
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