About this time last year Joey + Rory burst onto the national scene with their touching and romantic story and obvious love for each other.  With "Cheater, Cheater" the duo managed to score a Top 30 hit.  Will this song, a ballad released in the summer, find similar success?

Watch the music video for Joey+Rory's newest single.

While it tumbled from the top spot to third on the SoundScan Top 200 Albums chart, Rascal Flatts' "Unstoppable" album remained on top of the Country Albums chart while the album's first single "Here Comes Goodbye" tops the singles chart.  How did everyone else do?

Here's the first music video from Can You Duet's first winning duo Caitlin & Will.

Here's the 2nd single from Joey+Rory's debut album "The Life Of A Song."

Here's Joey+Rory performing their lovely ballad "Sweet Emmylou."

It's the time of year where we predict who has a chance to be successful in 2009.  For this feature Roughstock has chosen some of the best and brightest from various labels and areas of Country music.  Success isn't guaranteed but don't forget that you saw them here first.

At the suggestion of friends, Joey+Rory decided to enter CMT's "Can You Duet" despite never really actively singing together.  The husband-and-wife team wound up in the Top 3 of the show and gained a lot of loyal fans in the process. "The Life Of A Song" is their debut album and it showcases the suparstar vocals of Joey paired with her husband's wonderful songwriting.  It sounds perfect but do they have the songs to break through?

Coming virtually out of nowhere with a compelling, made-for-TV love story, Joey + Rory have proven that talent rises to the top.  Proof of that is this single which is Roughstock's 28th favorite single of the year.  Not bad for a duo that really didn't perform as one before 2008.

Life can get busy sometimes and because of that you may have missed some of the great album reviews featured on Roughstock this past month.  Joey+Rory, Toby Keith, John Michael Montgomery, Reba, Rascal Flatts, Billy Currington and Lee Ann Womack are but nust a few of the new albums featured this month.