Storm in the Heartland

Critical reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic rated the album three stars out of five, saying that he considered it an improvement over It Won't Be the Last. Chris Dickinson of New Country magazine gave it 2 out of 5. He wrote that "On Storm in the Heartland, Cyrus kept the pop, the rock, the bombast, and the bluster, but tossed out the memorable hooks." He thought that the album lacked personality and had "cluttered" production, but praised "A Heart with Your Name on It" and "Roll Me Over" as "fun", and "Patsy Come Home" as "sentimental but moving." Giving it a "C", Alanna Nash of Entertainment Weekly wrote that Cyrus "sticks to the tried-and-true" but added that "the yahoo factor figures heavily on 'Redneck Heaven'[…]and on 'The Past,' Cyrus misses his notes by a mile. An achy-breaky embarrassment."

Track listing

1. "Storm in the Heartland" (Billy Henderson, Donald Burns, Curt Ryle) — 3:53
2. "Deja Blue" (Craig Wiseman, Donny Lowery) — 3:36
3. "Redneck Heaven" (Billy Ray Cyrus, Terry Shelton, Michael Joe Sagraves, Mark Collie, Danny Shirley) — 4:03
4. featuring Mark Collie and Danny Shirley
5. "Casualty of Love" (Cyrus, Don Von Tress) — 4:29
6. "One Last Thrill" (Dave Loggins, Reed Nielsen) — 3:38
7. "I Ain't Even Left" (Cyrus, Corky Holbrook, Joe Scaife) — 3:51
8. "How Much" (Gregg Sutton, Danny Tate) — 5:30
9. "Patsy Come Home" (Ronnie Scaife, Katie Wallace) — 3:53
10. "A Heart with Your Name on It" (Brett Beavers, Phillip Douglas) — 2:44
11. "Only God (Could Stop Me Loving You)" (Robert John "Mutt" Lange) — 5:10
12. "Roll Me Over" (Cyrus, Barton Stevens, Greg Fletcher, Shelton, Holbrook, Sagraves) — 2:33
13. "Enough Is Enough" (Cyrus, Von Tress, Keith Hinton) — 3:43
14. "The Past" (Cyrus) — 4:06
15. "Geronimo" (Cyrus, Von Tress, Hinton) — 3:51

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.