The son of a pilot turned farmer, Aaron Tippin turned to the honky tonk circuit when his love of flying didn’t exactly take off. He landed a songwriting contract after appearing on TNN’s You Can Be a Star talent contest in 1986 and wrote for The Kingsmen, David Ball and others before the title track of his 1990 RCA debut, You’ve Got to Stand for Something rode a country roots revival to success in 1991.
Tippin’s follow up, “Read Between the Lines” produced three hit singles on the country charts, but the singer/songwriter experienced varying degrees of success through the end of the decade. The bump in patriotism following the September 11th attacks propelled Tippin back into the country music and national landscape in 2002 via his album Stars and Stripes and the song, “Where the Stars and Stripes and Eagle Fly.” Both the album and track experienced crossover success on the pop charts.
In 2006 Tippin started his own label, Nippit Records. A clear fan of a diverse portfolio, he has also owned and operated Aaron Tippin Firearms, a hunting retail outlet with locations in Tennessee and North Carolina since 1995.
1991: You’ve Got to Stand for Something
1992: Read Between the Lines
1993: Call of the Wild
1994: Lookin’ Back at Myself
1995: Tool Box
1998: What this Country Needs
2000: People Like Us
2001: A December to Remember
2002: Stars and Stripes
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