Joey + Rory

Career Overview

AWARDS

• 2010 ACM Top New Vocal Duo
• 2009 Nationwide Insurance on Your Side CMT Award

NOMINATIONS

• 2010 ACM Top New Duo
• 2009 CMA Vocal Duo of the Year
• 2009 ACM Top Vocal Duo

ACCOLADES

• The Life of a Song debuted at #10 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and #61 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart
• The Life of a Song reached #3 on the iTunes Top Country Albums Chart and #21 on the iTunes Top Albums Chart
• “Cheater Cheater” was featured on the CMT Top 20 Countdown
• “Play the Song” was featured on GAC’s Top 20 Countdown
• Joey+Rory were finalists on CMT’s hit 2008 competition show “Can You Duet”
• Joey+Rory were featured in two Overstock.com television and radio spots during the 2008. They were featured in one television spot in 2009.
• Holiday Season.  The third commercial was taped in the Spring of 2009 and will begin airing in July.
• The Life of a Song debuted at #10 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and #61 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart
• The Life of a Song reached #3 on the iTunes Top Country Albums Chart and #21 on the iTunes Top Albums Chart
• “Cheater Cheater” was featured on the CMT Top 20 Countdown
• “Play the Song” was featured on GAC’s Top 20 Countdown

 DISCOGRAPHY

• Album #2 – Will be released in late Spring of 2010
• The Life of a Song – Released October 28, 2008 by Vanguard/Sugar Hill Records
  Debuted at #10 on the Billboard Country Album Charts and remained on the charts for 50 weeks

 RADIO HITS

• “Cheater Cheater” – Top 30 – The first single from The Life of a Song became an infectious radio hit after the duo performed the song to rave reviews on “Can You Duet”
  
  The single also became a nationwide Top 10 Dance Club alongside such other superstars as Carrie Underwood, Brooks & Dunn, Reba and the Zac Brown Band.
  
  
• “Play the Song” – Heavy CMT and GAC video airplay

TOUR

• 2010 – Special guests on Zac Brown Band’s Breaking Southern Ground tour
• 2009 – Coast-to-coast dates in support of their debut album

TELEVISION APPEARANCES

• CMT’s Can You Duet Season 1 (contestants)
• CMT’s Can You Duet Season 2 Performance

PERSONAL STATS

Joey + Rory married June 15, 2002.  They have two daughters – Heidi and Hopie

Rory has penned hits such as Blake Shelton’s “Some Beach” (#1 Song), Clay Walker’s “The Chain of Love,” (Top 5), Collin Rae’s “Someone You Used to Know” (Top 5), Jimmy Wayne’s “I Will” (Top 20), Easton Corbin’s “A Little More Country Than That” (Top 5) and Crystal Shawanda’s “You Can Let Go” (Top 30) and had cuts by Waylon Jennings, Reba McEntyre, Kenny Chesney and many others.

When not performing, writing music or in the studio, Joey visits with patrons and lends a hand at Marcy Jo’s Mealhouse, a restaurant she and her sister-in-law co-own outside of Nashville.