Home at Last (Billy Ray Cyrus album)

Home at Last

Studio album by Billy Ray Cyrus

Released

July 24, 2007

Genre

Country

Length

52:17

Label

Walt Disney

Producer

Michael Anthony, Andy Dodd, Fred Mollin, Joe Scaife, Peter Stengaard, Adam Watts, Russ Zavitson

Billy Ray Cyrus chronology

Wanna Be Your Joe
(2006)

Home at Last
(2007)

Love Songs
(2008)

Singles from Home at Last

"Ready, Set, Don't Go"
Released: August 11, 2007
"Ready, Set, Don't Go
(with Miley Cyrus)"
Released: October 27, 2007

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com	^[1]
Allmusic	^[2]
Common Sense Media	^[3]
Country Weekly	(average)^[4]

Home at Last is the tenth studio album released by country music singer Billy Ray Cyrus. It was released on July 24, 2007, and is follow-up album to Wanna Be Your Joe, which was released in 2006. Home at Last is Cyrus' debut and only album to date for Walt Disney Records.

The album debuted and peaked at number 3 on the U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums, and number 20 on the Billboard 200 and on the Billboard Top Comprehensive Albums,^[5]^[6] setting a record for a father-daughter duo to have their own Top 20 album on the Billboard 200. When Home at Last debuted, Miley's album, Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus was at number 1.

Background

The album's lead-off single, "Ready, Set, Don't Go", debuted at number 47 for the chart week of August 11, 2007, on the Billboard Hot Country Songs, making it Billy Ray's first chart entry since 2004 with "The Other Side". On October 9, 2007, Billy Ray and Miley performed a duet of the song on Dancing with the Stars.

The duet debuted on the chart on October 27, 2007, at number 27. It eventually reached number 4 on the country charts, giving Billy Ray his first Top 5 single since "Busy Man" reached number 3 in 1999. It was also Miley's first Top 5 on any Billboard chart, as well as her first release to country radio.

After "Ready, Set, Don't Go" fell from the country music charts, no further singles were released. Cyrus began to work on his next studio album. The album was released on Lyric Street Records on April 7, 2009. It was titled Back to Tennessee.

The track "Stand" was originally recorded as a duet with Miley Cyrus on Billy Ray's previous album Wanna Be Your Joe. However, the song was remixed without Miley's vocals and was added to Home at Last.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Ready, Set, Don't Go"	Cyrus, Casey Beathard	4:06
2.	"The Beginning"	Jack Wallin	3:56
3.	"The Buffalo"	Tom Douglas, Andy Goldmark	3:55
4.	"Flying By"	Joanna Smith, Tom Hambridge, Jeffrey Steele	3:57
5.	"Brown Eyed Girl"	Van Morrison	3:43
6.	"Don't Give Up on Me"	Walt Aldridge, James LeBlanc	3:22
7.	"You've Got a Friend" (featuring Emily Osment)	Carole King	4:24
8.	"You Can't Lose Me"	Diane Warren	4:01
9.	"Can't Live Without Your Love"	Brad Crisler, LeBlanc	3:42
10.	"My Everything"	Cyrus	3:29
11.	"Put a Little Love in Your Heart"	James R. Holiday, James Randy Myers, Jackie DeShannon	3:12
12.	"Over the Rainbow"	Harold Arlen, E. Y. "Yip" Harburg	5:18
13.	"Stand"	Cyrus, Adam Watts, Andy Dodd	3:58
14.	"Ready, Set, Don't Go" (featuring Miley Cyrus)	Cyrus, Beathard	3:48

Personnel

David Angell – violin
Kenny Aronoff – drums
Sam Bacco – percussion
Richard Bennett – acoustic guitar
Mike Brignardello – bass guitar
Pat Buchanan – electric guitar
Tom Bukovac – electric guitar
Tim Buppert – background vocals
David J. Carpenter – bass guitar
Butch Carr – background vocals
John Catchings – cello
Vinnie Colaiuta – drums
Billy Ray Cyrus – lead vocals, background vocals
Miley Cyrus – vocals on track 14
Matt Dame – background vocals
Eric Darken – percussion
David Davidson – violin

Andy Dodd – electric guitar, piano
Dan Dugmore – steel guitar
Stuart Duncan – mandocello
Connie Ellisor – violin
Kenny Greenberg – electric guitar
Jim Grosjean – viola
Tom Hambridge – background vocals
James Harrah – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Tony Harrell – accordion, keyboards
Aubrey Haynie – fiddle
John Hobbs – keyboards
Mike Johnson – steel guitar
Troy Johnson) – background vocals
John Jorgenson – electric guitar, banjo
Shane Keister – keyboards
Karima Kibble – choir
Sherrie Kibble – choir

Anthony LaMarchina – cello
Paul Liem – drums, percussion
Matthew McMauley – conductor, string arrangements
Fred Mollin – 12-string acoustic guitar, Hammond organ, synthesizer, background vocals
Greg Morrow – drums
Kathy Niebank – background vocals
Emily Osment – vocals on track 7
Dean Parks – dobro, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
Larry Paxton – bass guitar
Shandra Penix – choir
Matt Rollings – keyboards

Joe Scaife – background vocals
Pam Sixfin – violin
Elisabeth K. Small – violin
Chris Stapleton – background vocals
Peter Stengaard – bass guitar, keyboards, background vocals
Mary Kathryn Van Osdale – violin
Adam Watts – drums, acoustic guitar, background vocals
John Paul White – background vocals
Kris Wilkinson – viola
John Willis – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, soloist
Karen Winklemann – violin
Suzanne Young – choir
Russ Zavitson – background vocals

Chart performance

Album

The album debuted at number 3 on Billboard 's Top Country Albums chart; Cyrus' first Top 5 album since It Won't Be the Last in 1993. It also debuted at number 20 on the all-genres charts Billboard 200 and Billboard's Top Comprehensive Albums, selling approximately 30,000 copies it its first official week of release. To date, the album has sold over 297,000 copies in the United States.

Charts (2007)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard 200	20
U.S. Billboard Top Comprehensive Albums	20
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	3

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
Year	Single	US Country	US	CAN
2007	"Ready, Set, Don't Go"	33	76	—
2007	"Ready, Set, Don't Go" (with Miley Cyrus)	4	37	47

References

↑ About.com review
↑ Allmusic review
↑ Common Sense Media review
↑ Country Weekly review
↑ Katie Hasty, "'NOW 25' Fends Off 'Hairspray,' Prince To Remain No. 1", Billboard.com, August 1, 2007.
↑ "Billboard Comprehensive Albums 2007-08-11". Billboard. August 11, 2007. Retrieved July 8, 2011.

Billy Ray Cyrus
Discography Awards and nominations
Studio albums	Some Gave All It Won't Be the Last Storm in the Heartland Trail of Tears Shot Full of Love Southern Rain Time Flies The Other Side Wanna Be Your Joe Home at Last Back to Tennessee I'm American Change My Mind Thin Line
Other albums	The Best of Billy Ray Cyrus 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection The Definitive Collection Love Songs Icon Brother Clyde
Related topics	Ron Cyrus Miley Cyrus Trace Cyrus Nashville Star Brother Clyde Robby Stewart

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