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Length
  
37:59

Artist
  
Aaron Tippin

Producer
  
Aaron Tippin

Genre
  
Country music

What This Country Needs(1998)
  
People Like Us(2000)

Release date
  
6 October 1998

Label
  
Lyric Street Records

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Released
  
October 6, 1998 (1998-10-06)

Similar
  
Aaron Tippin albums, Country music albums

Aaron tippin what this country needs


What This Country Needs is a 1998 album released by country music artist Aaron Tippin. It was his first full studio album since switching from RCA Nashville to Lyric Street Records. The album includes three singles: "For You I Will", "I'm Leaving", and "Her", which respectively reached #6, #17, and #33 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts in 1999. The track "Sweetwater" was originally recorded by McBride & the Ride on their 1993 album Hurry Sundown, and by Greg Holland on his 1994 album Let Me Drive.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "What This Country Needs" (Aaron Tippin, Donny Kees) – 3:09
  2. "For You I Will" (Mark Nesler, Tony Martin) – 3:32
  3. "Her" (Craig Wiseman, Jeffrey Steele) – 3:14
  4. "I Didn't Come This Far (Just to Walk Away)" (Michael P. Heeney, Tippin) – 2:55
  5. "I'm Leaving" (Ron Harbin, Aaron Barker, L. David Lewis) – 3:21
  6. "Nothing Compares to Loving You" (Wiseman, Steele) – 4:10
  7. "Don't Stop (We're Just Gettin' Started)" (Al Anderson, Dean Dillon) – 3:03
  8. "Somewhere Under the Rainbow" (Scott Blackwell, Jerry Laseter, Kerry Kurt Phillips) – 3:35
  9. "Back When I Knew Everything" (Tippin, Mel Besher) – 3:02
  10. "Sweetwater" (Jon Vezner, Allen Shamblin) – 4:09
  11. "You're the Only Reason for Me" (Heeney, Tippin) – 3:32

Personnel

Amalgamated from liner notes

  • Eddie Bayers - drums, percussion
  • Dennis Burnside - piano, organ
  • Aubrey Haynie - fiddle, mandolin
  • Wes Hightower - background vocals (tracks 1, 3, 6, 7 & 9)
  • Steve Hill - background vocals (tracks 2 - 11)
  • Mike Johnson - steel guitar
  • Chris Leuzinger - electric guitar (tracks 1, 3 - 5, 7, 9 - 11), acoustic guitar (track 4)
  • Brent Mason - electric guitar (tracks 2, 4, 6 & 8)
  • Michael Rhodes - bass guitar (tracks 1, 3 - 5, 7, 9 - 11)
  • Aaron Tippin- lead vocals
  • Biff Watson - acoustic guitar (tracks 1 - 3, 5 - 11)
  • Glenn Worf - bass guitar (tracks 2, 6 & 8)
  • Curtis Young - background vocals (tracks 1, 2, 4 - 6, 8, 10 & 11)

    • Strings arranged by Dennis Burnside and performed by the Nashville String Machine. Contracted by Carl Gorodetzky.

    Songs

    1What This Country Needs3:09
    2For You I Will3:32
    3Her3:14

    References

    What This Country Needs Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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