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Storyteller, blogger, and author, Rory Feek (who’s also a singer-songwriter and Grammy award-winning musician, and a New York Times bestselling author) has always spent a lot of time and energy pouring his heart out through his songs and stories. Now, Rory is adding another chapter to his ongoing story, and turning his wildly popular blog, “This Life I Live,” into a television docu-series. The new series captures and shares scenes from his ordinary, but often extraordinary life, as they are happening. Viewers will get an inside glimpse as Rory chronicles his journey as a husband, single father, musician, and community member navigating the ups and downs of life, love, and family. The intimate new vlog series offers a candid look at the single father’s life with his 5-year-old daughter, Indiana, on their farm in Tennessee, alongside his older daughters, family, and friends who surround him in his daily life. Rory lost his wife, Joey, to cancer in 2016 – two years after their daughter’s birth – and in the series trailer, he describes how her presence pushes him to strive to be a better man, father, and husband. “The show, like the blog I’ve written for the last five years, is really about nothing and everything at the same time,” Rory said. “It’s just one man’s thoughts and reflections on life as it’s happening. Trying to make sense of this life I’m living, just like everyone else…only I am probably a little more open and honest about it." Some of the show’s storylines involve opening a new location of the family restaurant, Marcy Jo’s Muletown, learning to be a solo performer after a decade of being part of an award-winning musical duo, navigating making a TV show at home, and juggling the balance of a deeply private personal life and an incredibly open public one. “It’s strange because privately, I am very public. I capture and share deeply personal parts of my life,” Rory says. “But publicly, I am a very private person. I strive to keep life as simple as possible, especially for Indiana. Though we get the opportunity to do and be part of some extraordinary things as a family, we are also very normal and live an ordinary life in a regular small town community. It’s what helps to keep our lives and our goals firmly rooted.” Besides the storylines, the setting for the singer’s story is also very unique. “We live on a farm an hour south of Nashville and have a big barn which people travel to from all across the country and a one-room schoolhouse where my little one and a dozen other kids from our community go. Both of my sisters and their families live here on the farm, in houses on either side of ours. Along with an even larger cast of characters we’re surrounded by, we all do life together.” Rory is no stranger to peeling back the layers of his life for the public. He and Joey created and shared the RFD-TV series, “The Joey+Rory Show” from home. The show ran from 2012 to 2014 (and still continues to re-run on the network). The variety show was primarily a showcase for their music and a small portion of each episode featured the couple’s life on their farm, running their family-owned cafe, enjoying life with friends and family in their community, and touring the world to perform together. “The new series is the reverse of that. Ninety percent of it is about the life we’re living and choices we’re making and in each episode, we try to feature a single song that is a culmination of the story that’s being told.” #ThisLifeILive