Buck Buck and Billo sing “Trail Of Tears” by Billy Ray Cyrus. Billy Ray Cyrus Video: www.youtube.com Enamored of baseball, Billy Ray Cyrus intended to become another Johnny Bench as he grew up in Flatwoods, Ky. While attending Georgetown College on a baseball scholarship, he bought a guitar and decided immediately that athletics wasn’t the proper direction for his life. Instead, he formed a band called Sly Dog with his brother and gave himself a ten-month deadline for finding a place to play. One week prior to that cutoff date, the group went to work as the house band for a club in Ironton, Ohio, where they remained for two years. When a 1984 fire destroyed the bar — and Cyrus’ equipment — he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career. Eventually, he returned to Kentucky and commuted regularly to Nashville in search of a record deal. Grand Ole Opry star Del Reeves got Mercury Records to take a look, and division head Harold Shedd signed him in the summer of 1990. When his first album came out in mid-1992, Cyrus — with his good looks, sculpted body and the infectious “Achy, Breaky Heart” — became an instant groundbreaking sensation. Spending five weeks at the top of the country charts, “Achy, Breaky Heart” made his debut album, Some Gave All, a blockbuster success. By the time it fell off the charts, it had sold over nine million copies and spent 17 weeks on the top of the pop charts. Despite his attempts, Cyrus wasn’t able to replicate the success of Some Gave All. He …