''Brother Clyde'' is the debut studio album from

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group

Brother Clyde Brother Clyde was an alternative rock musical supergroup, formed in 2009 by country music singer Billy Ray Cyrus. The band initially was to consist of Cyrus, Jeffrey Steele, John Waite and Phil Vassar. However, in June 2010, Cyrus announced a n ...

. It is the first side-project from

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singer

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. The album features duets with Cyrus' son

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as well as

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, who Cyrus said "wanted to rock." It was released on August 10, 2010. Its first single, "Lately", which features

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King Phaze, was issued to digital retailers on June 29, 2010, and a music video, which was directed by Cyrus, was released for the song in July 2010.

Background

While the original line up for the band included

John Waite John Charles Waite (born 4 July 1952) is an English musician. As a solo artist, he has released ten studio albums and is best known for the 1984 hit single " Missing You", which reached No. 1 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and the top ten on ...

Jeffrey Steele Jeffrey LeVasseur (born August 27, 1961), known as Jeffrey Steele, is an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with recording his own material, Steele has become a prolific Nashville songwriter, having co-written more than 60 hit ...

and

Phil Vassar Phillip George Vassar Jr. (born May 28, 1962) is an American country music artist. Vassar made his debut on the country music scene in the late 1990s, co-writing singles for several country artists, including Tim McGraw ("For a Little While", ...

, the artists' schedules became too busy for the band to meet up and record material for their debut album. However, in 2009, Cyrus was filming ''

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'' and he came across Morris Joseph Tancredi. The two began to talk about music and Tancredi played Cyrus a song he had written, called "Lately." Cyrus immediately took a liking to the song and asked Tancredi if he had any more material. Soon after, Cyrus met with

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, Jamie Miller, Dan Knight and Dave Henning. The five of them soon became the new line up for Brother Clyde, with Cyrus as the head of the band. The group then began recording material for their debut album. "Lately" was released to radio and digital retailers as their first single on June 29, 2010. It also features rapper King Phaze.

Critical reception

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reviewer Thom Jurek said that the album sounded like a dated-sounding alternative rock record which contains some inspired, well-crafted songs, and mostly honest emotional performances. Jurek also went on to say that the collaboration with

was one of the best cuts on the album

Track listing

Personnel

* Jamie Arentzen - instrumentation *

- guitar, lead vocals, background vocals *

- vocals on "Alive" * Mike Estes - guitar * Owen Hale- drums * James Dean Hicks - background vocals * Jamie Houston - guitar, background vocals * Stacy Jones - instrumentation * King Phaze - vocals on "Lately" * Ed King - guitar * Don Kirkpatrick - guitar * Fred Kron - keyboards * Al Moody -

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* Johnny Neil - keyboards *

- vocals on "The Right Time" * Michael J. Sagraves - harp * Morris Joseph Tancredi - bass guitar, drums, acoustic guitar,

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* Ted Wadhams - bass guitar * Denny Westin Jr. - drums * Jason D. Williams -

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Chart performance

References

{{Authority control Brother Clyde albums Fontana Records albums 2010 debut albums