Track Listing
1. What This Country Needs
2. For You I Will
3. Her
4. I Didn't Come This Far (Just to Walk Away)
5. I'm Leaving
6. Nothing Compares to Loving You
7. Don't Stop (We're Just Getting Started)
8. Somewhere Under the Rainbow
9. Back When I Knew Everything
10. Sweetwater
11. You're the Only Reason For Me
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Brent Mason, Glenn Worf | | Producer: | Aaron Tippin, Pat McMakin | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Aaron Tippin (vocals); Chris Leuzinger (acoustic & electric guitars); Biff Watson (acoustic guitar, dobro); Brent Mason (electric guitar); Bruce Bouton (lap steel guitar); Mike Johnson (steel guitar);
Aubrey Haynie (mandolin, fiddle); Carl Jackson (banjo); The Nashville String Machine (strings); Dennis Burnside (piano, organ); Michael Rhodes, Glenn Worf James Roller (bass); Eddie Bayers (drums, percussion, tambourine); Steve Hill, Curtis Young, Wes Hightower (background vocals).
Engineers include: Pat McMakin, Bart Pursley, Mike Bradley.
Recorded at Tree Studios, Emerald Sound Studios, Battery Studios & Sound Shop Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennesse.
All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.
Aaron Tippin's built his career on being country music's poster boy for the blue-collar lifestyle. On WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS, his well-crafted debut for Disney's Lyric Street Records, his working-class roots are still showing, but his artistic vision has broadened and matured. This CD is packed with top-notch songs from some of Nashville's best songwriters (Dean Dillon, Allen Shamblin, Kerry Kurt Phillips, Jon Vezner), and Tippin's vocals show a new depth and range. His high, keening voice has deepened--he actually croons on romantic numbers like "For You I Will" and "Her."
Standout tracks include "Somewhere Under the Rainbow," a tribute to the ordinary life of the average Joe & Jane, "Sweetwater," a beautiful love song with an nifty banjo part, and "I'm Leaving," in which a woman reveals that she's leaving her husband for someone he doesn't know at all--herself. And while the title track may sound like a patriotic anthem, the "country" Tippin's talking about is country music--and in his opinion, what it needs is more fiddle, steel guitar, and "a statue to Hank Williams Sr. in Washington, D.C." Fortunately, Tippin practices what he preaches.
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