Was joey feek married before rory

Joey Martin & Rory Feek

story compiled by Elisabeth

In the fall of 1998, twenty-three-year-old Joey Martin had left her tiny hometown of Alexandria, Indiana, and moved to Nashville, where she was working at a veterinary clinic for horses while she pursued her dream of becoming a singer.

Everyone advised her to attend a Writer’s Night at the ninety-seat Bluebird Café, a key networking location for singers and songwriters.  On the schedule that night was a red-headed songwriter dressed in overalls. As Rory Feek sang the songs he had written, Joey was drawn to the way he wrote and talked, and to his presence: “He just had a real kindness to him.” The more he sang, the more she fell in love.

I don’t know who that man is, but I’m gonna marry him someday, she thought.

Then Rory introduced his two young daughters, and Joey realized he was already a family man. All the good ones are gone, she mourned.

Time passed, and Rory Feek “decided to write far away from Nashville, to just pull a Norman Rockwell and write where the

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