Call of the Wild (Aaron Tippin album)

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Released August 10, 1993 Artist Aaron Tippin Producer Scott Hendricks Genre Country music		Length 32:45 Release date 10 August 1993 Label RCA Records

Recorded 1993 at SoundShop Recording Studios, Nashville, TN Call of the Wild (1993) Lookin' Back at Myself (1994) Similar Read Between the Lines, What This Country Needs, Stars & Stripes, Greatest Hits And Then Some, Lookin' Back at Myself

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Call of the Wild is the third album released by American country music singer Aaron Tippin. Released in 1993 on RCA Records Nashville, it produced the singles "The Call of the Wild", "Honky-Tonk Superman", "Workin' Man's Ph.D.", and "Whole Lotta Love on the Line". Of these, only "Workin' Man's Ph.D" reached Top 10 on the U.S. Billboard country charts. The album was produced by Scott Hendricks, unlike Tippin's first two albums which were produced by Emory Gordy, Jr.

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Critical reception

Brian Mansfield of Allmusic gave the album three stars out of five, saying that "some of Tippin's song choices were hillbilly silly." Mike Greenblatt of Modern Screen's Country Music gave a mostly-favorable review, saying that the album showed a sense of artistic growth over his first two discs, making note of Tippin's "one-of-a-kind, elastic voice" but referring to "Whole Lotta Love on the Line" as being "in that netherworld of benign country fluff."

Track listing

"The Call of the Wild" (Aaron Tippin, Buddy Brock, Michael P. Heeney) - 4:32
"Honky-Tonk Superman" (Tippin, Brock) - 2:54
"Nothin' in the World (Gonna Keep Me from You)" (Tippin, Terry M. Brown) - 2:34
"Workin' Man's Ph.D." (Tippin, Philip Douglas, Bobby Boyd) - 3:31
"I Promised You the World" (Tippin, Bruce Burch, Vern Dant) - 4:54
"When Country Took the Throne" (Tippin, Brock) - 2:26
"Let's Talk About You" (Tippin, Brock) - 2:46
"Whole Lotta Love on the Line" (Tippin, Donny Kees) - 3:44
"My Kind of Town" (Tippin, Sanger D. Shafer) - 3:02
"Trim Yourself to Fit the World" (Tippin, Douglas, Kim Williams) - 2:35

Personnel

Stuart Duncan – fiddle, mandolin

Paul Franklin – steel guitar

Brent Mason – electric guitar

Alan O'Bryant – background vocals on "The Call of the Wild"

Matt Rollings – piano

John Wesley Ryles – background vocals on all tracks except "Whole Lotta Love on the Line," "The Call of the Wild," "When Country Took the Throne"

Aaron Tippin- lead vocals

Cindy Richardson Walker – background vocals on "I Promised You the World"

Billy Joe Walker, Jr. – acoustic guitar

Dennis Wilson – background vocals on "I Promised You the World"

Lonnie Wilson – drums

Glenn Worf – bass guitar

Songs

1The Call of the Wild4:35
2Honky-Tonk Superman2:55
3Nothin' in the World2:33

References

Call of the Wild (Aaron Tippin album) Wikipedia

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