What This Country Needs
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 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- Eddie Bayers - drums, percussion
- Dennis Burnside - piano, organ
- Aubrey Haynie - fiddle, mandolin
- Wes Hightower - background vocals '
- Steve Hill - background vocals '
- Mike Johnson - steel guitar
- Chris Leuzinger - electric guitar ', acoustic guitar '
- Brent Mason - electric guitar '
- Michael Rhodes - bass guitar '
- Aaron Tippin - lead vocals
- Biff Watson - acoustic guitar '
- Glenn Worf - bass guitar '
- Curtis Young - background vocals