Description Seizing the opportunity for a comeback opened by his daughter's success as Hannah Montana -- and his accompanying role as Hannah's father -- Billy Ray Cyrus gives it his all on Home at Last, his tenth solo album but the first one to really seem to count since the glory days of "Achy Breaky Heart." Smartly, he avoids any boot-scooting shuffles and pitches the record directly toward the housewives who danced the night away to his big hit and now raise daughters who watch Hannah Montana. This means there's not much of the lean country that marked his very good 2006 set Wanna Be Your Joe but instead a lot of earnest midtempo tunes and ballads, along with covers of such standards as "Brown Eyed Girl" and "You've Got a Friend." It's modern-day adult contemporary music, but it's not given the drippy, saccharine, and synthesized arrangements that made AC music stultifying in the late '90s. Instead, it's stripped-down and direct, never sounding too slick but never sounding like something that could be mistaken for anything other than commercial adult pop, either. If the album suffers a little bit from a sense of sleepy sameness -- it sure could use more numbers like the working-class anthem "The Buffalo" or the mildly driving anthemic rocker "You Can't Lose Me" -- on a track-by-track basis, it's sturdy and Cyrus is always likeable, never pushing too hard and always sounding like a warmer, more genuine singer than he did at the peak of his fame in 1992. Make no mistake about it, Home at Last is as safe and comforting as its title suggests (which may indeed be a let-down for those that liked the sly, wily nature of Wanna Be Your Joe), but it's to Cyrus' credit that he pulls it off like an old pro, which is what makes this not only a handsome commercial comeback but a deserved one. © Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Artist: Billy Ray Cyrus Album: Home At Last Year: 9 October 2007 Genre: Country Quality: Flac CD 16bits/44.1kHz Label: Released by Walt Disney Records Source: Qobuz Size: 371mb Tracklist 01 Ready, Set, Don't Go 02 The Beginning 03 The Buffalo 04 Flying By 05 Brown Eyed Girl 06 Don't Give Up On Me 07 You've Got a Friend 08 You Can't Lose Me 09 Can't Live Without Your Love 10 My Everything 11 Put a Little Love in Your Heart 12 Over the Rainbow 13 Stand 14 Ready, Set, Don't Go (Album Version) Credits Main artist: Billy Ray Cyrus Composer: Various Composers Performers: MARK LINETT, Unknown, Other - Casey Beathard, ComposerLyricist - Fred Mollin, Producer - Billy Ray Cyrus, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist Label: Walt Disney Records Genre: Country ℗ 2007 Walt Disney Records Total Runtime: 54m 37s Download Link: Hidden Content: You must reply before you can see the hidden data contained here.
