Aaron Tippin
Aaron Tippin | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Aaron Dupree Tippin |
| Born | July 3, 1958[1] Pensacola, Florida, U.S. |
| Origin | Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, record producer |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, acoustic guitar |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Labels | RCA Nashville, Lyric Street, Nippit/Rust, Country Crossing |
| Spouse(s) |
Thea Corontzos (m. 1995) |
| Website | aarontippin |
Aaron Dupree Tippin (born July 3, 1958) is an American country music singer, songwriter and record producer. Initially a songwriter for Acuff-Rose Music, he gained a recording contract with RCA Nashville in 1990. His debut single, "You've Got to Stand for Something" became a popular anthem for American soldiers fighting in the Gulf War and helped to establish him as a neotraditionalist country act with songs that catered primarily to the American working class. Under RCA's tenure, he recorded five studio albums and a Greatest Hits package. Tippin switched to Lyric Street Records in 1998, where he recorded four more studio albums, counting a compilation of Christmas music. After leaving Lyric Street in 2006, he founded a personal label known as Nippit Records, on which he issued the compilation album Now & Then. A concept album, In Overdrive, was released in 2009.
Tippin has released a total of nine studio albums and two compilations, with six gold certifications and one platinum certification among them. In addition, he has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including three Number Ones: "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio" (1992), "That's as Close as I'll Get to Loving You" (1995), and "Kiss This" (2000), as well as the top ten hits "You've Got to Stand for Something", "I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way", "My Blue Angel", "Workin' Man's Ph.D.", "For You I Will", and "Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly".
Biography
Aaron Dupree Tippin was born July 3, 1958, in
Musical career
1991–1997: RCA Records
Tippin performed his first Nashville nightclub show in 1990, and it earned him a contract with
Tippin's second album, Read Between the Lines, was released in 1992. Its first single was "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio", which spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[3] Also released from this album were the singles "I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way", "I Was Born with a Broken Heart" (previously a chart single in 1988 for Josh Logan), and "My Blue Angel", which peaked at No. 5, No. 38 and No. 7, respectively, on the country charts. Read Between the Lines became Tippin's first platinum album.
In 1993, Tippin released his third studio album, titled Call of the Wild. It produced three straight Top 40 country hits in "Workin' Man's Ph.D.", the title track, and "Whole Lotta Love on the Line", while "Honky Tonk Superman", the final single, failed to make Top 40. One year later, Tippin released his fourth album, Lookin' Back at Myself, which produced the No. 15 "I Got It Honest" and the minor Top 40 "She Feels Like a Brand New Man Tonight".
Tool Box, his fifth album for RCA, produced his second Number One country hit in the ballad "That's as Close as I'll Get to Loving You"; the second single, "Without Your Love", peaked at No. 22, while the album's last two singles both failed to make Top 40. Like Call of the Wild and Lookin' Back at Myself before it, Tool Box also earned a gold certification from the RIAA.
Tippin's final release for the RCA label, a compilation titled
In 1994 Tippin performed the National Anthem at
1998–2005: Lyric Street
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In 1998, Tippin moved to
2000 saw the release of the single "Kiss This". Co-written by Tippin with his wife, Thea, the song went to the top of the Billboard country charts, becoming his third and final Number One hit. It served as the lead-off to his second Lyric Street album, People Like Us, and the David Lee Murphy-penned title track reached Top 20 in 2001. People Like Us was also certified gold.
In the wake of the
Tippin's last release for Lyric Street was a single, entitled "Come Friday", which was slated to be included on an album entitled I Believed. The single peaked at No. 42 on the country charts, and I Believed was not released; by 2005, he had exited Lyric Street.
2006–2012
In 2006, Tippin formed his own record label, Nippit Records, in a joint partnership with
Tippin signed to Country Crossing Records in 2008. His first album for the label,
Musical style
Tippin's singing voice is a baritone, characterized by a heavy, nasal Southern twang.[6] His phrasing has been compared to Hank Williams for "the catch in the throat, followed by a sliding moan", as described by Entertainment Weekly reviewer Alanna Nash in her review of Tippin's debut.[5]
Several of Tippin's songs, such as "Workin' Man's Ph.D" and "You've Got to Stand for Something", are mid-tempo anthems that address the working class, and are often patriotic in nature.
Personal life
On July 15, 1995, Tippin married the former Thea Corontzos at a Greek Orthodox ceremony in Nashville.[7] Along with his manager, Billy Craven, Aaron and Thea Tippin created Tippin's company, Tip Top Entertainment. They reside in Dowelltown, Tennessee. The couple have a daughter and two sons. Tippin also opened two hunting supply stores called Aaron Tippin Firearms: one in Smithville, Tennessee, and the other was run by his late father, Willis Emory Tippin, in Oak City, North Carolina. (Willis died in 2005.) According to the Federal Aviation Administration, Tippin is an instrument rated commercial pilot with single and multi-engine ratings. He also has private pilot privileges for rotorcraft-helicopter. He is a certified airframe and power plant mechanic.[8] He is also a longtime bodybuilder.[9] His son, Thomas has made songs with his father.
Discography
- Studio albums
- You've Got to Stand for Something (1991)
- Read Between the Lines (1992)
- Call of the Wild (1993)
- Lookin' Back at Myself (1994)
- Tool Box (1995)
- What This Country Needs (1998)
- People Like Us (2000)
- Stars & Stripes (2002)
- In Overdrive (2009)
- All in the Same Boat (2013)
- Aaron Tippin 25 (2015)
- Number-one singles (U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs)
- "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio" (1992)
- "That's as Close as I'll Get to Loving You" (1995)
- "Kiss This" (2000)
Awards and nominations
TNN/Music City News Country Awards
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Aaron Tippin | Star of Tomorrow | Nominated |
Academy of Country Music Awards
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | "Kiss This" | Single Record of the Year | Nominated |
| 2002 | "Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly" | Video of the Year | Nominated |
Footnotes
- ^ a b c Huey, Steve. "Aaron Tippin biography". AllMusic. Retrieved December 20, 2007.
- ^ "Aaron Tippin biography". Oldies.com. Retrieved December 20, 2007.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
- ^ Mansfield, Brian. "You've Got to Stand for Something review". Allmusic. Retrieved April 2, 2013.
- ^ a b Nash, Alanna (January 25, 1991). "Aaron Tippin – You've Got to Stand for Something". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on October 14, 2008. Retrieved October 10, 2008.
- ^ "Aaron Tippin biography". CMT. Archived from the original on March 31, 2008. Retrieved April 12, 2008.
- ^ "Aaron + Thea Tippin -- Country's Greatest Love Stories". The Boot. July 15, 2021. Retrieved June 25, 2022.
- ^ "FAA – Unhandled Error". amsrvs.registry.faa.gov.
- ^ https://www.theburningofrome.com/trending/is-aaron-tippin-a-bodybuilder/ Retrieved October 8, 2022.
References
- Oermann, Robert K. (1998). "Aaron Tippin". In The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 540–1.
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