Diffie's second album, titled Regular Joe, was released in 1992 and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. Diffie, who went from working in oil fields and foundries to becoming one of the most commercially successful country singers, began writing songs in the 1980s, and one of them, Love on the Rocks, was recorded by Hank Thompson. Throughout the video, there are clips of almost all the country stars of the 2010s Luke Bryan, Little Big Town, Lady Antebellum, Dierks Bentley, Florida Georgia Line and more singing to the camera, Joe, Joe, Joe Diffie! Diffie was preceded in death by his father, Joe Riley Diffie. The untrue claims appear to have stemmed from an obituary posted online for Diffies father, Joe Diffie Sr., who passed away in November 2018 from cancer. [13] Diffie also performed his first concerts in late 1990, touring with George Strait and Steve Wariner. He said that his "Mom and Dad claimed that [he] could sing harmony when [he] was three years old.