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Billy Ray Cyrus - Change My Mind

Change My Mind is country singer Billy Ray Cyrus's thirteenth studio album and first on Blue Cadillac Music. It was released on October 23, 2012.

The album includes a re-recording of "I'm So Miserable", a cut from Cyrus' 1992 debut Some Gave All.

Co-producing the album with Brandon Friesen, Billy Ray wrote seven of the album’s 10 songs himself without outside influence. He’s also releasing the record on his own Blue Cadillac Music, a label he created with Friesen to launch the project. These decisions offer an idea about the amount of creative control Billy Ray has on Change My Mind, and the result is felt immediately in the urgency and ruggedness of the overall sound.

The album opener and lead-single “Change My Mind” draws its power from heavy guitars and thundering percussion as Billy Ray acknowledges the demons, singing, I’ve been talking to myself, low down in the mix. It’s more aggressive than anything he has ever released and the delivery comes off as more of a growl, stirring up images of clenched teeth. The first half of the album follows suit with some serious muscle as songs like “Once Again” and “Hillbilly Heart” revel in distortion and rock-oriented grooves. However, the sound stays just this side of Led Zeppelin as an incendiary fiddle screams on the former tune through standard country lyrics like, I feel my heart break once again. On “Hillbilly Heart,” a thick, swampy stomp rings loud as Billy Ray defends the musical direction, singing out, Lord, I love the guitar / Love to hear it loud / If you don’t like what you hear you should leave this crowd, with a laid-back drawl.

The lyrics:

I've been talkin' to myself

Thinkin' 'bout changing my mind

I've been talkin' to myself

Thought I put your memory high upon a shelf

Well, you know I said I'd forget you

You go away in time

But lately I've been thinking

And I'm thinkin' 'bout changing my mind

Change my mind, you, hoo, hoo

Change my mind, change my mind, woho-hoo

Well, I said I love you and then I said goodbye

I know I made you hapy and then I made you cry

If I promised you forever, then I told you a lie

But lately I've been thinkin'

And I'm thinkin' 'bout changing my mind

Change my mind, you, hoo, hoo

Change my mind, change my mind, woho-hoo

Change my mind

Thinkin' 'bout changing my mind

I've been talkin' to myself

Thought I put your memory high upon a shelf

Well, you know I said I'd forget you

You go away in time

But lately I've been thinking

And I'm thinkin' 'bout changing my mind

Change my mind, you, hoo, hoo

Change my mind, change my mind, woho-hoo

Oh, I'll change my mind