Rory Feek - Once Upon a Farm: Lessons on Growing Love, Life, and Hope on a New Frontier

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Rory Feek is a true renaissance man, known as one of Nashvilles premier songwriters, entrepreneurs, and out-of-the-box thinkers. He is a world-class storyteller, crossing all creative mediums, from music and film to books and the Internet, and is the New York Times bestselling author of This Life I Live.

As a blogger, Rory shares his heart and story with the world through thislifeilive.com, and he has more than two million Facebook followers. The love story of Rory and his wife, the story of her battle and loss to cancer, and his vignettes of unwavering faith and hope in the face of tragedy inspire millions of readers.

As a songwriter, Rory has written multiple number-one songs, including Blake Sheltons Some Beach, Easton Corbins A Little More Country Than That, and Clay Walkers The Chain of Love and has had dozens of his other songs recorded by Kenny Chesney, Randy Travis, Reba McEntire, Trisha Yearwood, Waylon Jennings, and many others.

As an artist, Rory is half of the Grammy-winning county music duo Joey + Rory. He and his wife, Joey Martin, toured the world and sold hundreds of thousands of records. Their latest album, Hymns That Are Important to Us, sold seventy thousand copies the first week and debuted at number one on Billboard album charts. It went on to win a Grammy for Best Roots Gospel Album.

As a filmmaker, Rory wrote and filmed the touching documentary To Joey, With Love and directed the upcoming feature-length film Josephine, an epic love story set during the declining months of the Civil War, with a screenplay he cowrote with Aaron Carnahan. Rory has three other screenplays in process. He also writes, shoots, and edits Joey + Rory music videos and is the creator of the television shows and specials in which the duo has appeared.

Rory and his youngest daughter, Indiana, live an hour south of Nashville in an 1870s farmhouse near their family-owned diner, Marcy Jos Mealhouse.

Follow Rory at thislifeilive.com.

The story she said he was born to write.

Her story. His story. The love story of Joey and Rory.

I have never known two greater people in my entire life. Not many people touch lives in the ways that they have. Joey will always linger in our hearts and in our memories, but so will they both for their beautiful hearts and all the wonderful work theyve done.

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A gifted man from nowhere and everywhere in search of something to believe in. A young woman from the Midwest with an angelic voice and deep roots that just needed a place to be planted. This is their story. Two hearts that found each other and touched millions of other hearts along the way.

An outtake from the photo shoot for this book

The farmhouse when we bought it in 1999

The farmhouse today

Little Joey in overalls

Wendy, Hopie, Heidi, and Dillon playing cards at Heidis house in Alabama

Photo by Aloosina Toomalatai

Christmas morning with my first guitar

Joey at her high school graduation

Hopie and Heidi with me at the farm just before Joey came into our lives

Heidi singing Daddy What If with her dad on stage in Texas, 1990s

Hopie and Heidi next to the 1956 Chevy Bel Air we drove to Nashville when we moved in 1995

The girls by the restored Bel Air the day I gave it to them in May 2017

Our wedding day, June 15, 2002

Walking Joey down the aisle... Joey was so beautiful

Putting on our work boots right after the wedding

With fifteen Dr. Pepper cans tied to the back of my 56 Chevy

Joey and me singing for the first time on stage at the Grand Ole Opry

With Blake Shelton at the #1 party for Some Beach, 2004

The Grammy Award we won for the Hymns album

Joey and me on CMTs Can You Duet, March 2008

Joey with baby ducklings at springtime

One of our first Christmas pictures together as a family