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The beauty of country music is its ability to reflect the lives of its listeners, and few artists have celebrated life’s challenges and triumphs with more heartfelt eloquence than Joe Diffie. Whether singing about untarnished love in the enduring hit “John Deere Green,” the perennial appeal of “Pickup Man” or the heartbreak of dreams unrealized in “Ships That Don’t Come In,” Diffie’s songs have continually painted a portrait of real life with all its joy and angst.

“I’ve always loved well-written songs,” says the Grammy winner, who is just as skilled at writing hits as he is singing them. “There’s really no magic formula. I’ve just always drawn on my own experience whether it’s falling in love or hanging out in a bar. I feel like if I relate to it, other people will too.”

That simple barometer has served Diffie well throughout his career and continues to do so today with.the title track of his forthcoming album I Got This. The uptempo number proclaims what every man wants to say and every woman wants to hear: “Ain’t no load gonna get too heavy/Ain’t no bolt on this old Chevy I can’t twist/I can run the blade on a D8 ‘dozer//With the same hand I can pull you closer/Girl, if all you need’s a long, slow kiss, I got this.” Part mechani

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Joe Diffie, a dyed-in-the-wool country singer with a cutting rock edge, passed away on March 29, 2020 from complications of the Coronavirus. He was 61 years old. Joe Diffie earned a reputation as a singer’s singer, a master song craftsman and a flawless judge of great country lyrics. One of the major New Country stars of the 1990s, he scored top 10 hits with Home, If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets), Third Rock From the Sun, Pickup Man and Bigger Than the Beatles (all country number ones) plus New Way (To Light Up An Old Flame), Ships That Don’t Come In, Honky Tonk Attitude, Prop Me Up Beside The Jukebox (If I Die), John Deere Green, So Help Me Girl, A Texas Size Heartache and A Night To Remember.

A member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1993, he was steeped in the traditions of country music. A Regular Joe who made music for a living, the former Oklahoma iron foundry worker had little time for the trappings of stardom. Signed to Epic Records in 1989, he was one of those middling acts who regularly sold lots of albums, gained radio play and toured incessantly, but never made that transition from big star to superstar status. In fact, he titled his second album REGULAR JOE in 1992 and many of his best-known hits were either drinkin’ or working man anthems that rev

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I Don't Be in want of Your Rockin' Chair

Mark Chesnutt, Martyr Jones, Cake Loveless, Garth Brooks, Clint Black, Alan Jackson, Travis Tritt, Joe Diffie, Pam Tillis, T. Graham Embrown, Vince Gill

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