People Like Us (Aaron Tippin album) explained

People Like Us
Type:	studio
Artist:	Aaron Tippin
Cover:	Tippinpeople.jpg
Released:	July 25, 2000
Recorded:	The Soundshop Studios, Nashville, TN
Genre:	Country
Length:	37:40
Label:	Lyric Street
Producer:	Mike Bradley Aaron Tippin Biff Watson
Prev Title:	What This Country Needs
Prev Year:	1998
Next Title:	A December to Remember
Next Year:	2001

People Like Us is the seventh studio album by American country music artist Aaron Tippin, released on July 25, 2000 by Lyric Street Records. His second album for the Lyric Street label, it features his third and final number one single on the country charts, "Kiss This". Also released from this album were the title track and "Always Was". Tippin's wife, Thea, co-wrote "Kiss This" and "The Best Love We Ever Made", and sang duet vocals on the latter as well as adding the "See Ya!" line at the end of "Kiss This".^[1]

Personnel

Adapted from the album's liner notes.^[1]

• Mike Bradley - rebar on "Big Boy Toys"
• Melodie Crittenden - background vocals on "Kiss This"
• Paul Franklin - pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar
• Aubrey Haynie - fiddle, mandolin
• Joanna Janét - background vocals on "Kiss This"
• Brent Mason - electric guitar
• Steve Nathan - piano, keyboards, Hammond B-3 organ, Wurlitzer electric piano
• Kim Parent - background vocals on "Kiss This" and "The Best Love We Ever Made"
• John Wesley Ryles - background vocals
• Thea Tippin - "See ya" on "Kiss This"; duet vocals on "The Best Love We Ever Made"
• Biff Watson - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, 6 string bass, gut string guitar, shaker; ratchet wrench and wire saw on "Big Boy Toys"
• Dennis Wilson - background vocals
• Lonnie Wilson - drums, drum loops, tambourine
• Glenn Worf - bass guitar

Charts

Weekly charts

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Peak position
Canadian Country Albums (RPM)	16

Year-end charts

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Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[2]	26
Chart (2001)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[3]	29

Notes and References

1. People Like Us . Aaron Tippin . 2000 . CD . Lyric Street Records . 65014.
2. Top Country Albums – Year-End 2000. Billboard. October 24, 2020.
3. Top Country Albums – Year-End 2001. Billboard. October 24, 2020.