It Won't Be the Last
It Won't Be the Last is the second studio album by American country music artist Billy Ray Cyrus. Certified Platinum in just under a year after release by the RIAA, the album has sold over 1 million copies in the US and over 3 million copies worldwide. This album produced four singles for Cyrus on the Hot Country Songs charts: "In the Heart of a Woman", "Somebody New", "Words by Heart" and "Talk Some", which reached number #3, number #9, number #12, and number #63, respectively, on the charts. The first, third and fourth singles, plus two album cuts had accompanying music videos. "Somebody New" was covered in 2008 by Jill King, whose version was released as a single, however, it did not chart.
Personnel
Adapted credits from the media notes of It Won't Be the Last.Sly Dog
- Billy Ray Cyrus – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
- Greg Fletcher – drums, percussion, backing vocals
- Corky Holbrook – bass guitar, backing vocals
- Michael J. Sagraves – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, harmonica, backing vocals
- Terry Shelton – lead guitar, backing vocals
- Barton Stevens – keyboards, backing vocals
- Mike Brignardello – bass guitar
- Clyde Carr – backing vocals
- Costo Davis – keyboards
- Sonny Garrish – steel guitar
- Keith D. Hinton – acoustic and electric guitars
- Roy Huskey, Jr. – upright bass
- Mike Lawler – keyboards
- Neal Matthews – backing vocals
- Joe Scaife – backing vocals
- Gordon Stoker – backing vocals
- Don Von Tress – acoustic, electric and bass guitars, backing vocals
- Ray C. Walker – backing vocals
- Duane West – backing vocals
- Joe Scaife – co-producer, mixing
- Jim Cotton – co-producer, mixing
- Grahame Smith – assistant engineer
- Clyde Carr – assistant engineer
- Todd Culross – assistant engineer
- Hank Williams – mastering
- Ronnie Thomas – digital editing
- Kim Markovchick – executive art direction
- Virginia Team – art direction
- Jerry Joyner – design
- Peter Nash – photography