Library Rock's Backpages

Billy Ray Cyrus: It Won't Be the Last (PolyGram)

John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 16 September 1993

IT SHOULD come as no surprise that the new Elvis arrives sans pompadour or leisure suit. Billy Ray Cyrus is an Elvis for the '90s, a buffed-out hunk who oozes sincerity and wears one of those string ponytails with his short-cropped cut, a do that implies a history of vestigial wildness.

Total word count of piece: 580

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.