''People Like Us'' is the seventh studio album by American
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
artist
Aaron Tippin, released on July 25, 2000 by
Lyric Street Records. 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".
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the album's liner notes.
*Mike Bradley -
rebar
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on "Big Boy Toys"
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Melodie Crittenden
Melodie Crittenden (born 1968) is an American country and Christian music artist. Her first album was recorded at the age of nine in Norman, Oklahoma, and was titled ''Melodie Sings''. She traveled around Oklahoma with her family band "The Crit ...
- background vocals on "Kiss This"
*
Paul Franklin -
pedal steel guitar
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,
lap steel guitar
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Aubrey Haynie
Aubrey Haynie (born March 27, 1974) is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle and mandolin. In his career, he has recorded three studio albums for the Sugar Hill Records label, all three of which contained mostly songs that he wr ...
- fiddle,
mandolin
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Joanna Janét
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- background vocals on "Kiss This"
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Brent Mason - electric guitar
*Steve Nathan - piano, keyboards,
Hammond B-3 organ,
Wurlitzer electric piano
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*Kim Parent - background vocals on tracks 1 and 11
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John Wesley Ryles
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- background vocals
*Thea Tippin - "See ya" on "Kiss This"
*
Biff Watson - electric guitar, acoustic guitar,
6 string bass,
gut string guitar
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,
shaker
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Religious groups
* Shakers, a historically significant Christian sect
* Indian Shakers, a smaller Christian denomination
Objects and instruments
* Shaker (musical instrument), an indirect struck idiophone
* Cock ...
;
ratchet wrench and "
DWC-come-along" on "Big Boy Toys"
*Dennis Wilson - background vocals
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Lonnie Wilson - drums,
drum loop
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s, tambourine
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Glenn Worf
Glenn Worf is an American bassist known mainly for his work as a session musician. He has recorded with many major country music acts and also tours with Mark Knopfler.
Early life and education
Worf was born in Dayton, Ohio, and grew up in Madis ...
- bass guitar
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
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2000 albums
Lyric Street Records albums
Aaron Tippin albums