"Joy of My Life" | |
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Song by John Fogerty | |
from the album Blue Moon Swamp | |
Released | May 20, 1997 |
Recorded | 1997 |
Genre | Country rock |
Length | 3:52 |
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Songwriter(s) | John Fogerty |
Producer(s) | John Fogerty |
"Joy of My Life" is a 1997 song written and originally recorded by American musician John Fogerty. It was released on his 1997 fifth solo album Blue Moon Swamp . In 2022, the song was released by country music singer Chris Stapleton as a single from his album Starting Over .
The tenth track on Blue Moon Swamp, "Joy of My Life," was written, produced and arranged by Fogerty, engineered by John Lowson and mixed by Bob Clearmountain. It is a conversational song about his wife Julie, and the first love song Fogerty has written unless "Long As I Can See the Light" is counted. The tune started to evolve in 1991 when Fogerty attended the Oshkosh aviation show in Wisconsin. When the organizers asked "How's Julie?" Fogerty always answered "Well' she's the joy of my life". Then the organizers: "You're always saying 'She's the joy of my life'. You should write a song." After getting serious with the dobro in 1992, Fogerty wrote the riff for the song at the Kern River draining an area of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains northeast of Bakersfield in California. The words started coming after returning back home, putting the kids down and lying in bed with his wife. [1] [2] Fogerty also stated he sings "Joy of My Life" to his wife every night. [3] Eventually, it became John Fogerty's first love song.
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Single by Chris Stapleton | ||||
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Released | March 22, 2022 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
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Label | Mercury Nashville | |||
Songwriter(s) | John Fogerty | |||
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On March 22, 2022, country singer Chris Stapleton released his version of the song as a single. [4] [5] [6] [7] The song was originally included on his 2020 album Starting Over . [8] After being released as a single it charted at number 27 on the US Hot Country Songs chart. [9]
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Canada (Music Canada) [15] | Gold | 40,000‡ |
New Zealand (RMNZ) [16] | Gold | 15,000‡ |
United States (RIAA) [17] | Platinum | 1,000,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
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