What This Country Needs

What This Country Needs
What This Country Needs
Studio album by Aaron Tippin
Released	October 6, 1998
Genre	Country
Length	37:59
Label	Lyric Street
Producer	Pat McMakin; Aaron Tippin
Aaron Tippin chronology
Singles from What This Country Needs
	"For You I Will"; Released: August 3, 1998; "I'm Leaving"; Released: January 30, 1999; "Her"; Released: June 5, 1999;

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

What This Country Needs is the sixth studio album by American country music artist Aaron Tippin, released on October 6, 1998. 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.

Track listing[edit]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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.	"Don't Stop (We're Just Gettin' Started)"	Al Anderson, Dean Dillon	3:03
7.	"Somewhere Under the Rainbow"	Scott Blackwell, Jerry Laseter, Kerry Kurt Phillips	3:35
8.	"Back When I Knew Everything"	Tippin, Mel Besher	3:02
9.	"Sweetwater"	Jon Vezner, Allen Shamblin	4:09
10.	"You're the Only Reason for Me"	Heeney, Tippin	3:32

Personnel[edit]

Amalgamated from liner notes^[2]

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.

Chart performance[edit]

Weekly charts[edit]

Chart (1998–99)	Peak position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[3]	23

Year-end charts[edit]

Chart (1999)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[4]	60

References[edit]

^ Allmusic review
^ What This Country Needs (CD). Aaron Tippin. Lyric Street Records. 1998. 65003.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^ "Aaron Tippin Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1999". Billboard. Retrieved November 16, 2020.

[1] Allmusic review

[Liner_Notes-2] What This Country Needs (CD). Aaron Tippin. Lyric Street Records. 1998. 65003.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

[ac_BillboardCountry_Aaron_Tippin-3] "Aaron Tippin Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 16, 2020.

[4] "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1999". Billboard. Retrieved November 16, 2020.

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v t e Aaron Tippin
Studio albums	You've Got to Stand for Something Read Between the Lines Call of the Wild Lookin' Back at Myself Tool Box What This Country Needs People Like Us A December to Remember Stars & Stripes In Overdrive
Compilation albums	Greatest Hits… and Then Some
Singles	"You've Got to Stand for Something" "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio" "I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way" "I Was Born with a Broken Heart" "My Blue Angel" "Workin' Man's Ph.D." "The Call of the Wild" "Whole Lotta Love on the Line" "I Got It Honest" "That's as Close as I'll Get to Loving You" "Without Your Love" "For You I Will" "I'm Leaving" "Kiss This" "People Like Us" "Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly" "If Her Lovin' Don't Kill Me"
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