Storm in the Heartland
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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
.
Billy Ray Cyrus
William "Billy" Ray Cyrus is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor and philanthropist, who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon...
. Released in 1994 on Mercury Records
Mercury Records
Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...
, 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
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
) 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
Lari White
Lari Michele White is an American country music artist and actress. She first gained national attention in 1992 as a winner on You Can Be a Star, a talent competition which aired on The Nashville Network...
as a duet with Toby Keith
Toby Keith
Toby Keith Covel , best known as Toby Keith, is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums — 1993's Toby Keith, 1994's Boomtown, 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin, plus a Greatest Hits package for various divisions of...
on White's album Stepping Stone
Stepping Stone (album)
Stepping Stone is the fourth studio album released by American country music artist Lari White. Released on July 28, 1998 as her first album for Lyric Street Records after leaving RCA Nashville...
, and again in 2002 by the Canadian country band Emerson Drive
Emerson Drive
Emerson Drive is a country music band founded in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada in 1995. The band is Brad Mates , Danick Dupelle , Mike Melancon , Dale Wallace , and David Pichette .Early on, the band found minor success in Canada, releasing two albums under the name of 12 Gauge, the first Open...
on their self-titled album
Emerson Drive (album)
Emerson Drive is the third studio album from Canadian country music band Emerson Drive and their major-label debut, it was released in 2002 on DreamWorks Records Nashville. It produced three singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts: the Top 5 hits "I Should Be Sleeping" and "Fall Into Me",...
. Emerson Drive's rendition was released as a single in 2003.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Stephen Thomas Erlewine is a senior editor for Allmusic. He is the author of many artist biographies and record reviews for Allmusic, as well as a freelance writer, occasionally contributing liner notes. He is also frontman and guitarist for the Ann Arbor-based band Who Dat?Erlewine is the nephew...
of Allmusic rated the album three stars out of five, saying that he considered it an improvement over It Won't Be the Last
It Won't Be the Last
It Won't Be the Last is the second album released by country music artist Billy Ray Cyrus. Certified platinum by the RIAA, this album produced four singles for Cyrus on the Hot Country Songs charts: "In the Heart of a Woman", "Somebody New", "Words by Heart", and "Talk Some", which reached number...
.
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 Craig Wiseman Craig Michael Wiseman is an American country music songwriter. Active since the late 1980s as a songwriter, he has had his songs recorded by Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Kenny Chesney, LeAnn Rimes, and several other acts.... , Donny Lowery |
| 3. | "Redneck Heaven" featuring Danny Shirley (of Confederate Railroad Confederate Railroad Confederate Railroad is an American country rock band founded in 1987 in Marietta, Georgia by Danny Shirley , Michael Lamb , Mark Dufresne , Chris McDaniel , Warren "Gates" Nichols and Wayne Secrest... ) and Mark Collie Mark Collie George Mark Collie is an American country music artist and occasional actor. He has released eight albums, and has charted 16 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. His highest peaking singles are "Even the Man in the Moon Is Cryin'" at #5, and "Born to Love You" at #6, from 1992 and... |
4:03 | Billy Ray Cyrus Billy Ray Cyrus William "Billy" Ray Cyrus is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor and philanthropist, who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon... , 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 Dave Loggins David Allen "Dave" Loggins is a singer, songwriter and musician. He is widely remembered for his 1974 composition "Please Come to Boston", which was a top-10 hit in the U.S. for him, and was subsequently covered by numerous other artists. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame... , Reed Nielsen |
| 6. | "I Ain't Even Left" (featuring The Oak Ridge Boys The Oak Ridge Boys The Oak Ridge Boys are an American country and gospel vocal quartet.The group was founded in the 1940s as the Oak Ridge Quartet. They became popular in southern gospel during the 1950s... ) |
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 Brett Beavers Brett Beavers, born in Waco, Texas, is an American country music songwriter and producer and the co-author of the book Something Worth Leaving Behind.-Background:... |
| 10. | "Only God (Could Stop Me Loving You) Only God (Could Stop Me Loving You) "Only God " is the title of a country music song written by pop and rock songwriter Robert John "Mutt" Lange. It was originally recorded by Billy Ray Cyrus for his 1994 album Storm in the Heartland, but not released as a single.... " |
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 |
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 Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales... |
US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
CAN Country | |||||||
| 1994 | "Storm in the Heartland" | 33 | 108 | 17 | |||||
| 1995 | "Deja Blue" | 66 | — | 60 | |||||
| "One Last Thrill" | — | — | — | ||||||
| "—" denotes releases that failed to chart | |||||||||
Sly Dog
- Billy Ray Cyrus - lead vocals, rhythm guitarRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
- Greg Fletcher - drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, percussion, vocals - Corky Holbrook - bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, vocals - Michael J. Sagraves - acoustic guitarAcoustic guitarAn acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
, electric guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
, steel guitarSteel guitarSteel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...
, harmonicaHarmonicaThe harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
, vocals - Terry Shelton - lead guitarLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
, vocals - Barton Stevens - keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, background vocals
Additional musicians
- Eddie Bayers - drums
- Mike Brignardello - bass guitar
- Clyde "Butch" Carr - tambourineTambourineThe tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....
, background vocals - Jim Cotton - Indian chants on "Geronimo"
- Dan Dugmore - steel guitar, lap steel guitarLap steel guitarThe lap steel guitar is a type of steel guitar, an instrument derived from and similar to the guitar. The player changes pitch by pressing a metal or glass bar against the strings instead of by pressing strings against the fingerboard....
, DobroDobroDobro is a registered trademark, now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar.The name has a long and involved history, interwoven with that of the resonator guitar... - Sonny Garrish - Dobro
- Mike Lawler - keyboards
- Gary Lunn - bass guitar
- Randy McCormick - keyboards
- Matt RollingsMatt RollingsMatt Rollings is an American composer, musician and record producer. He plays piano, organ, and keyboards.Known mainly for playing in Lyle Lovett's Large Band, he has worked with many artists, not all country...
- pianoPianoThe piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal... - Joe Scaife - background vocals
- Ronny Scaife - acoustic guitar, background vocals
- Billy Joe Walker, Jr. - acoustic guitar
- Reggie Young - electric guitar