TEAM RNS PRESENTS

ARTIST: Billy Ray Cyrus

TITLE: The Other Side

LABEL: Warner Bros.

RIPPER: Team RNS

0hr 42min total- 61.8mb

RELEASE DATE: 2003-10-28
RIP DATE: 2003-10-27

01 Face Of God                    3:48
02 Wouldn't You Do This For Me?   3:35

04 I Need You Now                 4:06
05 Love Has No Walls              3:42
06 Tip Of My Heart                4:22
07 Did I Forget Yo Pray           3:09
08 Holding On To A Dream          3:23
09 I Love You This Much           3:27
10 The Other Side                 3:59

Billy Ray Cyrus will forever be known
for the catchy, lightweight single
"Achy, Breaky Heart," which became a
line-dancing anthem upon its 1992
release. "Achy, Breaky Heart" made
Cyrus famous, but it also proved to be
his undoing. No matter how he tried, he
could not escape the song, nor could he
replicate the success. Cyrus' music was
never particularly innovative  it owed
as much to the country-rock of the
Eagles as it did to the new
traditionalism of George Strait and the
new country of Clint Black and Garth
Brooks  but his musical worth became
irrelevant in the wake of the success
of "Achy, Breaky Heart" and its
accompanying album, Some Gave All. The
album became a crossover success after
the single became a hit, spending 17
weeks on the top of the album charts.
Part of Cyrus' success was due to his
handsome, hunky good looks, and part of it
was due to the catchiness of "Achy,
Breaky Heart." However, both his good
looks and the single were soon
forgotten, and just two years after
Some Gave All ruled the charts, Cyrus
virtually disappeared from both the pop
and country charts and became part of
the long history one-hit wonders.
Enamored of baseball, Cyrus intended to
become another Johnny Bench as he grew up
in Flatlands, KY. While attending
Georgetown College on a baseball
scholarship, he bought a guitar and
decided immediately that athletics
wasn't the proper direction for his
life. Instead, he formed a band called
Sly Dog with his brother and gave
himself a ten-month deadline for
finding a place to play. One week prior
to that cutoff date, the group went to
work as the house band for a club in
Ironton, OH, where they remained for
two years. When a 1984 fire destroyed
the bar  and Cyrus' equipment  he moved
to Los Angeles to pursue his career.
Eventually, he decided to return to
Kentucky and commuted regularly from
there to Nashville in search of a
record deal. Grand Ole Opry star Del
Reeves got Mercury Records to take a look,
and division head Harold Shedd signed
him in the summer of 1990. When his
first album came out in mid-1992,
Cyrus  with his good looks, sculpted
body, and the infectious "Achy, Breaky
Heart"  became an instant groundbreaking
sensation. Spending five weeks at the
top of the country charts, "Achy,
Breaky Heart" made his debut album, Some
Gave All, a blockbuster success. By the
time it fell off the charts, it had sold
over nine million copies and spent 17
weeks on the top of the pop charts.

Despite his attempts, Cyrus wasn't able
to replicate the success of Some Gave
All. He quickly followed the album with
It Won't Be the Last in the summer of
1993. Initially, the album sold well,
entering the pop charts at number three,
but it fell far short of expectations by
only reaching platinum status. Storm in
the Heartland, delivered in the fall
of 1994, managed to go gold, even
though it was ignored by country radio.
However, by the time it finished its
chart run, Cyrus had slipped from the
public's eye. When he returned with the
harder-edged, introspective Trail of
Tears in 1996, his audience had virtually
disappeared  the album only spent four
weeks on the charts and didn't even go
gold. Shot Full of Love followed in
1998 and Southern Rain was issued two
years later. In March 2001, Cyrus hit TV
screens in the role of a country doctor
moved to Manhattan in the sitcom Doc.