Storm in the Heartland

Storm in the Heartland
Studio album by Billy Ray Cyrus
Released November 8, 1994 (1994-11-08)
Recorded 1993-1994
Genre Country
Length 55:18
Label Mercury
Producer Jim Cotton
Joe Scaife
Billy Ray Cyrus chronology
It Won't Be the Last
(1993)
Storm in the Heartland
(1994)
Trail of Tears
(1996)

Storm in the Heartland is the third album from country music artist Billy Ray Cyrus. Released in 1994 on Mercury Records, it produced the singles "Storm in the Heartland", "Deja Blue", and "One Last Thrill", the first two of which entered the Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. The album itself was certified gold by the RIAA for sales of 500,000 copies.

"Only God (Could Stop Me Loving You)" was recorded in 1999 by Lari White as a duet with Toby Keith on White's album Stepping Stone, and again in 2002 by the Canadian country band Emerson Drive on their self-titled album. Emerson Drive's rendition was released as a single in 2003.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic rated the album three stars out of five, saying that he considered it an improvement over It Won't Be the Last.[1]

Contents

Track listing

# Title Length Writer(s)
1. "Storm in the Heartland" 3:53 Billy Henderson, Donal Burns, Curt Ryle
2. "Deja Blue" 3:36 Craig Wiseman, Donny Lowery
3. "Redneck Heaven"
featuring Danny Shirley (of Confederate Railroad) and Mark Collie
4:03 Billy Ray Cyrus, Terry Shelton, Michael Joe Sagraves, Mark Collie, Danny Shirley
4. "Casualty of Love" 4:29 Cyrus, Don Von Tress
5. "One Last Thrill" 3:38 Dave Loggins, Reed Nielsen
6. "I Ain't Even Left"
(featuring The Oak Ridge Boys)
3:51 Cyrus, Corky Holbrook, Joe Scaife
7. "How Much" 5:30 Gregg Sutton, Danny Tate
8. "Patsy Come Home" 3:53 Ronnie Scaife, Katie Wallace
9. "A Heart with Your Name on It" 2:44 Phillip Douglas, Brett Beavers
10. "Only God (Could Stop Me Loving You)" 5:10 Robert John "Mutt" Lange
11. "Roll Me Over" 2:33 Cyrus, Barton Stevens, Greg Fletcher, Shelton, Holbrook, Sagraves
12. "Enough Is Enough" 3:43 Cyrus, Von Tress, Keith Hinton
13. "The Past" 4:06 Cyrus
14. "Geronimo" 3:51 Cyrus, Von Tress, Hinton

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1994) Peak
position
Canadian Top Country Albums 6
Swiss Music Charts 40
U.S. Billboard 200 73
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 11

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions
US Country US CAN Country
1994 "Storm in the Heartland" 33 108 17
1995 "Deja Blue" 66 60
"One Last Thrill"
"—" denotes releases that failed to chart

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.

Sly Dog

Additional musicians

References

  1. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Storm in the Heartland review". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r207154. Retrieved 28 February 2010.