What This Country Needs Explained

What This Country Needs
Type:studio
Artist:Aaron Tippin
Cover:Countryneeds.jpg
Genre:Country
Length:37:59
Label:Lyric Street
Producer:Pat McMakin
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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.

Personnel

Amalgamated from liner notes[1]

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

Chart performance

Year-end charts

Notes and References

  1. What This Country Needs . Aaron Tippin . 1998 . CD . Lyric Street Records . 65003.
  2. Top Country Albums – Year-End 1999. Billboard. November 16, 2020.