Bullard Roofing
The family business Jo Ann and Jerry built together, carried forward by their youngest son, Brandon, with the next generation involved.
A LIFE IN WORDS & MUSIC
Loveremembers.Hope blooms.
Some stories stay with you.
This one grows with you.
A MEMOIR BY JO ANN BULLARD
Love remembers. Faith sustains.Hope blooms.
EXPLORE THE COVER
A LIFE ROOTED IN STORY
From Rainbow Crossing
to the page.
An Alabama childhood. A fifty-two-year love story. The songs, the storms, and the quiet courage to keep finding beauty.
52
years of love with Jerry
100+
songs written from the heart
A lifetime
of stories worth keeping
01 / MEET JO ANN
Storyteller.
Songwriter.
Memory keeper.
A lifetime of turning real moments into words, music, and memories worth keeping.
Born near Blountsville, Alabama, Jo Ann grew up at Rainbow Crossing in a hardworking family. Books, music, cooking, faith, and family became lasting threads in her life.
She and Jerry shared fifty-two years of marriage, raised three children, built Bullard Roofing, and worked their farms together. After his death in 2021, her story entered a difficult season of grief, illness, recovery, and eventually renewed companionship.
Along the way came original songs recorded in Nashville and locally, her cookbook Playing with Fire, and the memoir she had wanted to share for years.
AFTER THE STORM
The storm was
not the whole story.
A home was lost. A red rosebush remained.
And a story of resilience began to bloom.
THE BOOK TRAILER
Watch the story
come to life.
A first look at Reasons & Roses.
LOVE REMEMBERS · FAITH SUSTAINS · HOPE BLOOMS
02 / THE MEMOIR
Reasons
& RosesA memoir about what survives.
The story begins with a tornado that destroyed Jo Ann’s son’s home, and a red rosebush that remained standing in the yard.
From childhood in Blount County to falling in love with Jerry, waiting through his year in Vietnam, building a family, and slowly learning to live forward after loss, Jo Ann tells a story that is tender without pretending life is easy.
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Love & marriage
Teenage love that grew into fifty-two years of marriage, with a family and a life built together.
Faith & resilience
Hope that can coexist with questions, pain, and grief, and the courage to keep living.
Family & legacy
Children, grandchildren, traditions, businesses, and the everyday stories passed forward.
Music & creativity
Writing and song as places to put feelings that ordinary words cannot hold.
03 / THE MUSIC
Some feelings
become songs.
Love. Grief. Friendship. Faith.
A life set to its own melody.
There is still music
in her bones.
Jo Ann began writing poems as a teenager. Decades later, her songs still carry the people and moments she loves, with recordings made in Nashville and closer to home.
Find her music on YouTubeExplore search results for Jo Ann Bullard Music.
THE RECORDINGS & THE MEMORIES
SELECTED WORKS / 01—0801
Promise
Original CD
02
Rose After the Storm
Original CD
03
True Story
Original CD
04
Sadness Falls Like Darkness
Original CD
05
You’re It
Inspired by Jerry
06
A Friend Like You
Friendship & courage
07
Ole Blue Truck
A memory of her father
08
Singing for My Lord
Inspired by her brother Mike
04 / WHAT WE KEEP
The people.
The places. The love.
The most meaningful things
are the ones we carry forward.
The Hitchin Post
Her ideas. His building skills. Tornado-damaged timber given a new life inside a place made for gathering and celebration.
Stories worth keeping
Through songs, photographs, family traditions, and her memoir, Jo Ann preserves the ordinary moments that become extraordinary with time.
THE STORY CONTINUES
There is always
room for roses.
Discover a life shaped by family, faith,
music, and the courage to begin again.