Billy Ray

We noticed Billy Ray Cyrus sporting a huge new arm sleeve tattoo at the recent Nashville Rising Benefit Concert.    Guess he wants to look the part with his new rock band Brother Clyde. Brother Clyde includes Billy Ray, Samantha Maloney (Mötley Crüe, Hole, Eagles of Death Metal) and guitarist Jamie Miller (theSTART, Snot). The band will be releasing their self-titled debut album on August 10th. The first single from Brother Clyde, “Lately,” is available now on iTunes.  Billy Ray says, “I...Read Full Story

Billy Ray Cyrus and Phil Vassar have bowed out of this year’s UFO Festival in Roswell, New Mexico. The festival is not mentioned on either of their websites but, the chairwoman of the UFO Festival says blame of  the cancellations should be put on the publicity about the way the festival is funded.   The festival is still on. It runs June 30 through July 5. Country Girl wants you to be a Tattle Tale! Have you been to a country concert lately? Run into a country artist while out on the town? We...Read Full Story

“When I know what it is I’m going to be writing next, I’ll go out and buy a soundtrack of a movie that has a similar tone to what I’m writing. If it’s an action movie, I’ll get the soundtrack to Speed or something like that. And there will be a couple of weeks where I’m just driving around, listening to that soundtrack, and the movie starts to coalesce, it starts to fall into my head. And that’s a really exciting time.” – Billy Ray (Volcano, Flight Plan, State of Play)Read Full Story

Miley Cyrus is furious that her country singin’ daddy, Billy Ray, sat down with GQ to bash the Disney show that made them mega-rich, as well as for his comments saying he’s "scared" for his daughter’s well-being. Now, I’m hearing that the ‘Hannah Montana’ star has signaled that she wants him to clam up and stop acting like another infamous stage dad. "To say Miley is angry is an understatement," a friend of the Disney star tells me. "She’s furious that her own flesh and blood would make a...Read Full Story

"You can take a scene that's good and make it horrible, by putting it in the wrong place. You can take a scene that's really average, and make it interesting, by putting it int the right place. It has to be somewhere that's credible...somewhere that has significance to the characters that are in that scene... Putting a scene in a location that puts your characters under pressure, makes them react, that's always a good thing."-- Billy Ray, screenwriter of Hart's War (2002), Flightplan (2005...Read Full Story