[1][2] He is best known for writing "Moving to a Small Town"[3] and Montgomery Gentry's hit song "Daddy Won't Sell the Farm", which went Platinum and Gold in the United States.
[7][2][8] His father John worked in radio broadcasting, while his mother Ella was an oboe player in a chamber orchestra.
[2] Fox moved to Toronto in the mid-1980s to pursue a career in music, performing and writing songs for several folk, R&B, and rockabilly bands, and working as a sound engineer.
[7][2] While fronting a rockabilly band called The Tin Eddies, he got his break with a solo rock LP, Where The Blue Moon Rises.
[citation needed] He is noted for writing the Montgomery Gentry single "Daddy Won't Sell The Farm", which reached No.