People Like Us (Aaron Tippin album)

People Like Us is the seventh studio album by American country music 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".^[2]

People Like Us
Studio album by Aaron Tippin
Released	July 25, 2000
Studio	Sound Shop (Nashville, Tennessee)
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)
Singles from People Like Us
"Kiss This" Released: May 22, 2000 "People Like Us" Released: January 8, 2001 "Always Was" Released: August 11, 2001

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Track listing

What This Country Needs track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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"	Tony Colton Bobby Wood	4:01
5.	"I'd Be Afraid of Losing You"	Mark Collie Leslie Satcher	3:36
6.	"Lost"	Steve Seskin Craig Wiseman	3:15
7.	"Big Boy Toys"	A. Tippin Buddy Brock	3:11
8.	"Twenty-Nine and Holding"	A. Tippin Marcus Franklin Johnson	3:42
9.	"Every Now and Then (I Wish Then Was Now)"	A. Tippin Michael P. Heeney	3:23
10.	"The Night Shift"	A. Tippin Johnson	3:06
11.	"The Best Love We Ever Made" (with Thea Tippin)	A. Tippin T. Tippin	3:57
Total length:			37:40

Personnel

Adapted from the album's 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 - piano, keyboards, Hammond B-3 organ, Wurlitzer electric piano
• Kim Parent - background vocals on "Kiss This" and "The Best Love We Ever Made"
• John Wesley Ryles - background vocals
• Thea Tippin - "See ya" on "Kiss This"; duet vocals on "The Best Love We Ever Made"
• Biff Watson - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, 6 string bass, gut string guitar, shaker; ratchet wrench and wire saw on "Big Boy Toys"
• Dennis Wilson - background vocals
• Lonnie Wilson - drums, drum loops, tambourine
• Glenn Worf - bass guitar

Charts

Weekly charts Weekly chart performance for People Like Us Chart (2000) Peak position Canadian Country Albums (RPM) 16 US Billboard 200[3] 53 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[4] 5

Year-end charts Year-end chart performance for People Like Us Chart (2000) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[5] 26 Chart (2001) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[6] 29