Billy Ray Cyrus - Wanna Be Your Joe

Primary Artist
Billy Ray Cyrus
Album Title
Wanna Be Your Joe
Release Date
August 22, 2006 
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Review by William Ruhlmann
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). Read More