People Like Us (Aaron Tippin album)

People Like Us
Studio album by Aaron Tippin
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
Aaron Tippin chronology
What This Country Needs (1998) People Like Us (2000) A December to Remember (2001)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

People Like Us is an album released in 2000 by American country music artist Aaron Tippin. 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".^[2]

Track listing

1. "Kiss This" (Aaron Tippin, Thea Tippin, Philip Douglas) – 2:53
2. "And I Love You" (Casey Beathard, Odie Blackmon) – 3:07
3. "People Like Us" (David Lee Murphy, Kim Tribble) – 3:22
4. "Always Was" (Bobby Ray Wood, Tony Colton) – 4:01
5. "I'd Be Afraid of Losing You" (Mark Collie, Leslie Satcher) – 3:36
6. "Lost" (Craig Wiseman, Steve Seskin) – 3:15
7. "Big Boy Toys" (A. Tippin, Buddy Brock) – 3:11
8. "Twenty-Nine and Holding" (Marcus Franklin Johnson, A. Tippin) – 3:42
9. "Every Now and Then (I Wish Then Was Now)" (Michael P. Heeney, A. Tippin) – 3:23
10. "The Night Shift" (Johnson, A. Tippin) – 3:06
11. "The Best Love We Ever Made" (A. Tippin, T. Tippin) – 3:57
    • duet with Thea Tippin

Personnel

Amalgamated from liner notes^[2]

• 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 - acoustic piano, keyboards, B3 organ, Wurlitzer
• Kim Parent - background vocals on tracks 1 & 11
• John Wesley Ryles - background vocals
• Aaron Tippin- lead vocals
• Thea Tippin- "See ya!" at the end of "Kiss This", vocals on "The Best Love We Ever Made"
• Biff Watson - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, six-string bass guitar, gut string guitar, shaker, 1-inch ratchet wrench and DWC-come-along on "Big Boy Toys"
• Dennis Wilson - background vocals
• Lonnie Wilson - drums, drum loops, tambourine
• Glenn Worf - bass guitar

Chart performance

Chart (2000)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	5
U.S. Billboard 200	53
Canadian RPM Country Albums	16

References

1. Allmusic review
2. People Like Us (CD). Aaron Tippin. Lyric Street Records. 2000. 65014.