Billboard CD reviews: Miley Cyrus, Buddy Guy

ARTIST: MILEY CYRUS

ALBUM: BREAKOUT (HOLLYWOOD RECORDS)

Naming a new album "Breakout" when you've already sold 7 million career units seems like a delayed reaction. But for Miley Cyrus, the game plan was apparently "first tweens, then the world." While it's still age-appropriate for minors, "Breakout" is for the big kids too. The natural-born popster -- who co-wrote all but two songs -- invokes everyone from Wilson Phillips ("Bottom of the Ocean") to the B-52s ("Fly on the Wall"), with a sparkplug energy and Stevie-Nicks-by-way-of-Tennessee twang that's nothing if not adorable. Even a rocked-out cover of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," which could have been nullified by its obviousness, makes you OK with the fact that a generation will grow up thinking it's a Cyrus original. Relying entirely on the full-blooded, all-American guitar, there's not a single dancefloor beat on "Breakout": For once, the kids are pogo-ing, not grinding.

ARTIST: VARIOUS ARTISTS

ALBUM: MAMMA MIA! (DECCA)

"Mamma Mia!," the motion picture featuring 17 ABBA songs (and a hidden bonus), is destined to join the lexicon of modern signature musicals, a la "Hairspray" and "Dreamgirls," showcasing ABBA's 30-year ever-resuscitating legacy. Produced by group co-founder Benny Andersson with ABBA's original musicians, what makes this production work is the contrast between super-slick arrangements against decidedly imperfect vocals from actors like Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Amanda Seyfried. The cast can carry a tune, and Streep in particular shows aptitude in her upper range. "The Winner Takes It All," even with occasional off notes, is truly affecting.

ARTIST: BUDDY GUY

ALBUM: SKIN DEEP (SILVERTONE/ZOMBA)

As he jams with Eric Clapton around the middle of his latest CD, Buddy Guy says, "The blues are all around me, I just find something I can use." That's seldom been a problem throughout Guy's career, which seems to be only getting more potent as he ages. At 72, Guy plays his guitar with the sting of someone a third his age and sings with the authoritative bark of a grizzled vet you know better than to mess with. But that doesn't stop anyone from playing along, and Guy certainly seems happy to school the "young'uns" -- whether he's dueling with Clapton on "Every Time I Sing the Blues" or dancing around Robert Randolph's pedal steel on the galloping "That's My Home." On "Who's Gonna Fill Those Shoes," Guy ponders the future of the blues, reaching no conclusions but assuring us on these 12 tracks that its present is in pretty good hands.