To understand the music of Billy Ray Cyrus now, you have to understand his musicthen. His boyhood home rang out with gospel, country and bluegrass. Then, alongcame ZZ Top, Ted Nugent, Foghat and every other bad-ass band to pass througheastern Kentucky in the 70 s, and that was that. A rock n roll hellion was born.No matter how many country or gospel chart-toppers he had, he never lost hispassion for rock. With Lately, the Buena Vista Records / Fontana Distribution debutCD from his new band, Brother Clyde, Billy Ray Cyrus finally lets it rip. The bandfeatures former players in the bands: Hole, Mötley Crüe, Snot, The Crystal Methodand Slash. I always loved rock n roll, Billy Ray says. That was a heavy part ofwhat I was as a young juvenile delinquent. I tried from my first album to rock likeany other Southern rock band. Fate and country music immortality intervened,but for Brother Clyde, he followed an oh-so-rock-and-roll dictum: No rules.No limits. No preconceptions.