Joey And Rory: Duo’s Most Important Album Due Out On Valentine’s Day

Joey and Rory’s most important album is coming soon… Valentine’s Day to be exact.

According to a recent post by Rory Feek on his blog titled This Life I Live, the country music duo has been working on a special album, full of his and Joey’s favorite old hymns. As Rory puts it… it’s Joey’s album.

As the Inquisitr previously reported, Joey Feek has been battling stage four cervical cancer since she was diagnosed in 2014, three months after her daughter Indiana was born. In mid-October, Joey was preparing to undergo another round of chemotherapy when doctors discovered that her cancer had not only returned, but had spread to her colon. Because there was nothing left for the doctors to do, Joey Feek decided to stop treatment and return home to spend her final days in hospice care with her family.

Joey and Rory first announced their newest album Hymns That Are Important to Us in August, via their Facebook page.

“…in the studio w my beautiful bride today recording a new album of old hymns. It’s been a dream of Joey’s to do someday. That someday is today,” Rory wrote at the time, sharing several photos of Joey.

Although Joey and Rory have released several other albums, this album is special because it is made of the songs Joey grew up listening to; old hymns that bring back memories of her childhood.

“We recorded it in a studio in Nashville early in the summer – just after recovering from her first big surgery in Chicago,” Rory wrote in a post titled “Manna From Heaven,” which is also the name of one of the songs that will be included in the album. “And then she did her vocals where she could… in hotel rooms, our house, wherever and whenever she felt up to singing. In early October, we even did a tv taping of the songs in the concert hall at our farm in front of a live audience. Joey was weak and it was difficult for her, but she was determined. This record means so much to her. It is the songs that are the most important to her.”

The country music duo also have special plans for the proceeds from the album. They have already decided that the money from their album sales will be going to the Loeys-Dietz Syndrome Foundation in honor of Indiana’s best friend Scout, who was born with the disease, which Rory describes as a “connective-tissue disorder that affects her heart and a thousand other things.”

Speaking of Scout, Rory shared a picture of the young girl in the post that he had received from his friend earlier that day. “Scout can’t wait until Indiana joins her at camp,” Rory’s friend wrote. While the picture was meant to bring smiles to the Feek family, it reminded Joey that she will not be here to help her husband raise their daughter. That realization instantly brought her to tears.

Manna From Heaven from Hickory Films on Vimeo.

“I wasn’t sure what had happened – what the pain was that she was feeling – so I tried to put my arms around her and asked, “what’s wrong”, and then through her tears, she said the words….” Rory wrote, adding, “…the words that are the hardest, most-difficult part of all that she, and we, are going through: ‘I want to raise our baby,’ she cried, and her tears fell harder… ‘I want to be the one to teach her.'”

Pre-order information for Hymns That Are Important to Us has not been released yet.

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