New Door Records
2006
Wanna Be Your Joe
About This Album
Billy Ray Cyrus has been nothing if not industrious in keeping his career alive despite the vicissitudes of the entertainment business. The crushing success of his nine-times-platinum debut album, Some Gave All, fueled by the hit "Achy Breaky Heart," was too much for anyone to live up to, but he rode that popularity through the platinum follow-up It Won't Be the Last and the gold third album Storm in the Heartland before listeners lost interest. After finishing off his first major-label contract with the poor-selling Trail of Tears and Shot Full of Love, he jumped to a second major label and tried again with Southern Rain, meanwhile diversifying by turning to TV acting on the PAX series Doc, which paid the bills over the next several years as he tried to resuscitate his music career on the budget label Madacy (Time Flies) and then, taking a flyer from Randy Travis, with a gospel album (The Other Side). Now, he has been signed to New Door Records, the imprint of Universal that has the unusual goal of attempting to stage comebacks for artists who have a history with the parent company. (Cyrus' first five albums were on Universal subsidiary Mercury Records.) Hedging his bets, he is simultaneously beginning a second TV series, Hannah Montana, co-starring with his daughter Miley Cyrus on The Disney Channel.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,12 and 14)

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