His And Hers

His And Hers

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In signing up for CMT s competition show Can You Duet in 2008, Rory Feek wanted one thing: for the world to know his wife Joey, and the<br>power of her voice. My whole hope was: I m going to get eliminated immediately, but they might hear her sing, he says, now four years into<br>a career as her Joey+Rory duo partner, and a decade into life as her proud husband. The couple far surpassed his expectations, Joey+Rory<br>taking third place and subsequently signing with Vanguard/Sugar Hill Records. Over two studio albums 2008 s The Life of A Song, from<br>which single Cheater Cheater is culled, and 2010 s Album Number Two country fans have indeed come to know Joey s crystalline belt.<br>They ve also come to know Joey+Rory as a couple, rooted in an 1870s Pottsville, Tenn., farmhouse, Rory writing songs and tinkering with old<br>cars, Joey gardening or baking bread at Marcy Jo s Mealhouse, the local restaurant she owns with sister-in-law Marcy. But with the new His<br>and Hers, due out via Sugar Hill, listeners will get fully acquainted with both Joey and Rory as individually arresting lead singers,<br>Joey taking the fore on half of the album s tracks, Rory s warm, approachable vocal helming the others.