"Joy of My Life" is a 1997 song written and originally recorded by American musician

John Fogerty John Cameron Fogerty (born May 28, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. Together with Doug Clifford, Stu Cook, and his brother Tom Fogerty Thomas Richard Fogerty (November 9, 1941 – September 6, 1990) was an American mu ...

. It was released on his 1997 fifth solo album ''

Blue Moon Swamp ''Blue Moon Swamp'' is the fifth solo studio album by American singer/songwriter John Fogerty, released on May 20, 1997. Guest musicians, the Lonesome River Band, were invited to join in on backing vocals on "Southern Streamline" and "Rambunctio ...

''. In 2022, the song was released as a single by country music singer

Chris Stapleton Christopher Alvin Stapleton (born April 15, 1978) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and grew up in Staffordsville, Kentucky. In 2001, Stapleton moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to ...

as a single from his album '' Starting Over''.

History

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 Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars, currently owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was originally ...

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. Fogerty also stated he sings "Joy of My Life" to his wife every night. Eventually, it became John Fogerty's first love song.

Personnel

* Dobro, bouzouki (Irish), acoustic guitar, vocals: John Fogerty * Bass: Bob Glaub * Drums: Kenny Aronoff * Claves, tambourine: Luis Conté

Chris Stapleton cover

On March 22, 2022, country singer

released his version of the song as a single. The song was originally included on his 2020 album '' Starting Over''. After being released as a single it charted at number 27 on the US Hot Country Songs chart.

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References

{{Chris Stapleton 1997 songs Songs written by John Fogerty John Fogerty songs Chris Stapleton songs