Set the Record Straight (Billy Ray Cyrus album)

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Set the Record Straight
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Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 10, 2017
Genre Country
Length65:59
Label Flatwood Records
Billy Ray Cyrus chronology
Thin Line
(2016)
Set the Record Straight
(2017)
The SnakeDoctor Circus
(2019)
Singles from Thin Line
  1. "Achy Breaky Heart 25"
    Released: April 28, 2017

Set the Record Straight is the fifteenth studio album by country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, and his first on record label Flatwoods Records. It was released on November 10, 2017. [1] [2] The album peaked at number 43 on the Billboard Independent Albums Charts.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."I Wanna be Your Joe"3:14
2."Tulsa Time (ROKMAN Remix) (featuring Noah Cyrus and Derek Jones)"2:59
3."You Good"4:26
4."Folsom Prison Blues"5:14
5."Country Music Has the Blues (featuring George Jones and Loretta Lynn)"2:26
6."I Want My Mullet Back"3:18
7."Achy Breaky Heart 25th (Muscle Shoals Mix) (featuring Ronnie Milsap)"4:14
8."I Wouldn't Be Me"4:11
9."Stand"4:19
10."Hey Daddy"3:45
11."The Freebird Fell"4:59
12."Trail of Tears"3:28
13."Achy Breaky Heart 25 (Spanglish) (featuring Jencarlos Canela)"3:14
14."Meant to Be"5:04
15."Achy Breaky Heart (Remix) (featuring DJKO)"3:27
16."Worry"4:27
Total length:62:15

Charts

Chart (2017)Peak
position
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [3] 43

Release history

List of regions, release dates, formats, labels and references
RegionDateFormatsLabelRef.
United StatesNovember 10, 2017Flatwood Records [4]

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