1990

Aaron’s debut album reached #23 on the Billboard Country Albums chart, & was certified Gold in 1992. The title track, featuring Vince Gill on harmony vocals, was Aaron’s first chart entry, peaking at #6 on the Country chart in 1991. Also released from this album were the singles I Wonder How Far It Is Over You & She Made A Memory Out Of Me, which reached #40 and #54, respectively. In My Wildest Dreams would later be recorded by Kenny Chesney as the title track to his 1994 debut album In My Wildest Dreams.

1992

Aaron’s Platinum-selling  second album, Read Between The Lines, reached #6 on the Country Albums chart when it was released in 1992 & featured Aaron’s first #1 single There Ain't Nothin' Wrong With The Radio, as well as the hits My Blue Angel, I Was Born With A Broken Heart, & I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way. I Was Born With A Broken Heart was previously recorded by Josh Logan on his 1988 album Somebody Paints The Wall, from which it was also released as a single. David Ball also released the song on his 1989 self-titled debut.

1992

In September 1992 Aaron joined with legendary hitmakers Alvin & The Chipmunks to record a version of his recent #1 hit There Ain’t Nothin’ Wrong With The Radio for their #6 Country album Chipmunks in Low Places. The album was certified Platinum & became the group’s first Platinum record, & with Aaron’s help, their best-selling album.

1993

Aaron’s third album Call of the Wild was released in 1993 & quickly reached Gold status.  The album produced five hit singles.  My Blue Angel & Workin’ Man’s Ph.D both reached #7 on the Billboard Country Singles chart, The Call of the Wild reached #17, Whole Lotta Love On The Line reached #30, & Honky-Tonk Superman rose to #47.  The album was produced by Scott Hendricks, unlike Aaron's first two albums, which were produced by Emory Gordy, Jr.

1993

Aaron  wrapped his pipes around his musical mentor Hank Williams’ classic I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry for the soundtrack to the 1993 hit movie The Beverly Hillbillies that reached #51 on the Country Albums chart.   

1994

Lookin' Back at Myself is Aaron’s fourth album.  Released in 1994 on RCA Records, the album rose to #19 on the Country Albums chart, &  became Aaron’s fourth Gold album.  Aaron either wrote or co-wrote nine of the ten songs on the album, which included two hit Country Singles: I Got It Honest, which peaked at #15, & She Feels Like a Brand New Man Tonight, which rose to #39 on the Country Singles chart.  Country Boy's Tool Box later appeared on his next album Tool Box.

1995

Tool Box is Aaron’s fifth album & featured four charting singles: That's As Close As I'll Get To Loving You, Without Your Love, Everything I Own & How's The Radio Know. That's As Close As I'll Get To Loving You reached #1 on the Billboard Country charts in 1995, giving Aaron the second #1 of his career. Without Your Love reached #22, How’s the Radio Know reached #69, & Everything I Own reached #51.  Tool Box rose to #12 on the Country Albums chart, continuing Aaron’s Gold record streak, & was certified by the RIAA. You've Always Got Me was previously recorded by Pearl River on their eponymous 1994 album, & Ten Pound Hammer would later be recorded by Barbara Mandrell on her 1997 album It Works For Me. Additionally, I Can Help is a cover of a song originally released by country/pop artist Billy Swan in 1973. Country Boy's Tool Box is also reprised from Aaron’s 1994 album Lookin' Back At Myself.

1995

For Aaron's first holiday song he chose to tackle the Johnny Marks classic, Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer in 1995.  The track has been included on many different BMG Heritage albums, including Merry Christmas Y'All, which also includes tracks from Brooks & Dunn, Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, Sara Evans and Tracy Byrd.

1997

Aaron’s sixth album release was a compilation composed of eight hits from his first five albums, as well as four newly recorded tracks: Cold Gray Kentucky Morning, A Door, That's What Happens When I Hold You & If Only Your Eyes Could Lie. Of these, That's What Happens When I Hold You & A Door were released as singles, respectively reaching #50 and #65 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks. Soon after this Platinum-selling album’s release, Aaron exited RCA Nashville's roster, and signed in 1998 to Lyric Street Records.

1997

In September 1997, Aaron, along with longtime collaborators Mark Collie & Jeff Wood, contributed the title track of Steven Seagal’s movie, Fire Down Below, which also starred Marg Helgenberger, Kris Kristofferson & Harry Dean Stanton.  The soundtrack also included tracks from Randy Travis, Travis Tritt, Marty Stuart & Taj Mahal.

1998

RCA Records released Aaron’s seventh album Super Hits in March 1998, which rose to #72 on the Billboard Country Albums chart.  The album collected ten hits from the peak of Aaron’s time on the RCA label, including his two #1 hits, There Ain’t Nothin’ Wrong With The Radio & That’s As Close As I’ll Get To Loving You, along with eight other top ten hits.

1998

At the close of his affiliation with RCA Records, Aaron released The Essential Aaron Tippin on that label.  Long considered an important contributor to the traditionalist movement of the 1990’s, Aaron approached country music with a fun, rocking honky tonk attitude, leading to some of the era’s rootsiest songs played on country radio.  This collection features 14 tracks culled from Aaron’s previous albums on RCA, & included two previously unreleased tracks: Cold Chill, which was co-written by Aaron, & a faithful, heartfelt rendition of Charley Pride’s classic All I Have To Offer You Is Me.

1998

In October 1998 Aaron released his ninth album What This Country Needs, which was his first full-studio album since switching from RCA Records to Lyric Street Records. The album included three singles: For You I Will, I'm Leaving, & Her, which respectively reached #6, #17 & #33 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks. The track Sweetwater was originally recorded by McBride & the Ride on their 1993 album Hurry Sundown, & also by Greg Holland on his 1994 album Let Me Drive.  The album rose to #23 on the Country Albums chart.

2000

People Like Us was Aaron’s tenth album & his second album for the Lyric Street label.  The album reached #5 on the Billboard Country Albums chart & also reached Gold album status.  Three singles were released from the album:  the #1 Country single, Kiss This,  People Like Us that peaked at #17, & Always Was, which rose to #40.  Aaron’s wife Thea co-wrote Kiss This & The Best Love We Ever Made, & sang duet vocals on the latter, as well as adding the "See Ya!" line at the end of Kiss This.

2001

Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly
(single)

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, Aaron recorded Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly, the song that he, Kenny Beard & Casey Beathard had written for his 2000 album People Like Us but, according to Aaron, “...did not make the cut, but now I know exactly why it didn’t.  It had a bigger purpose.”  Two days after the attacks, Aaron went to a Nashville studio & recorded the song which was released on September 17, 2001. All proceeds of the single went to the Red Cross & its relief efforts for the families of the 9/11 attacks. The single raised approximately $250,000,  reached #2 on the Country Singles chart & also hit #20 on the U.S Billboard Hot 100.

2001

Aaron’s eleventh album was his first Christmas album, which was released the day after his huge hit Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly hit the shelves.  A December To Remember rose to #42 on the Country Albums chart & contained a mix of original & cover holiday songs.  Aaron’s  rendition of Jingle Bell Rock from the album hit #52 on the Singles chart.

2002

Aaron’s twelfth album was 2002’s Stars & Stripes, which featured the massive hit  from 2001, Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly, which, when re-released as a single, climbed to #29 on the Country Singles chart.   The album rose to #10 on the Country Albums chart, & released three additional singles: I’ll Take Love Over Money, which hit #46; If Her Lovin’ Don’t Kill Me, #40; & his first charted duet with wife Thea Tippin, Love Like There’s No Tomorrow that climbed to #35.  If Her Lovin' Don't Kill Me was later recorded by John Anderson on his 2007 album Easy Money, from which it was also released as a single.

2003

Aaron lent his talents to this first tribute album dedicated to the songs of Hank Williams Jr.  The album featured Aaron performing Bocephus’ #4 hit, Family Tradition, alongside country stars Blake Shelton, Alan Jackson, Trace Adkins, Tracy Lawrence & rock stars .38 Special, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Marshall Tucker Band & The Georgia Satellites.  The album took two years to complete, & unlike many tribute albums, included the subject Hank Williams Jr. himself.

2004

In 2004 Aaron's release of the Ultimate Aaron Tippin collection is considered the most thorough single-disc retrospective of this successful vocalist from the second wave of the new traditionalist movement of the 1990s. Expanding on 1997’s Greatest Hits…And Then Some by seven tracks, the album effectively captured Aaron’s full range of Top Ten songs while signed by RCA between 1991 & 1995. Aaron either wrote or co-wrote 14 of the 20-track set including the original versions of A Door, That's As Close As I'll Get To Loving You, Working Man's Ph.D., You've Got To Stand For Something, I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way, &  a cover of Billy Swan's 1974 hit I Can Help.

2005

Come Friday
(single)

Aaron’s last release on Lyric Street was the single Come Friday, which was originally slated for inclusion on  an album entitled I Believed.  The label never released the album, however the single peaked at #42 on the Country chart, & soon after, Aaron exited Lyric Street.

2006

In 2006 Aaron formed his own record label, Nippit Records (a reverse spelling of his last name), in a joint partnership with Rust Nashville.  His first release on the label & his fourteenth album, Now & Then  reached #34 on the US Country chart & rose all the way to #10 on the US Indie chart.  The album produced two singles, Ready To Rock (In A Country Kind Of Way), & He Believed, which  Aaron co-wrote with wife Thea & which rose to #55 on the Country Singles chart.

2007

In 2007  Aaron—along with Annual Summer Bash & Autumn Afternoon alums Pam Tillis & Lorrie Morgan—& other country stars,  re-recorded their own versions of classic country tunes on the Shanachie  Records release, The Greatest Country Love Songs.  Aaron's version of  the hit David Allen Coe penned for Tanya Tucker, Would You Lay With Me (In A Field Of Stone)  is another fine example of how effortlessly Aaron can deliver a traditional rendering of a classic county song, but also putting his own indelible stamp on it.

2007

On March 1, 2007 an EF4 tornado devastated Alabama’s Wiregrass region.  The aftermath was tragic, & most devastating was the untimely death of eight Enterprise High School students.  The school was destroyed & lives were changed forever.  In response to this tragedy, Aaron—again with friends of the Annual Summer Bash & Autumn Afternoon, this time Deborah Allen & Lorrie Morgan—lent their considerable talents to a benefit album called We Are Enterprise: The Album To Benefit The Rebuilding Of Enterprise High School.   Aaron contributed a  hand-clapping, Gospel-tinged track, Mighty Good God, that he  and Thea penned.

2008

He Believed: A Son's Tribute

Adding his name to an ever-growing list of artists who produced & sold albums exclusively through Cracker Barrel, Aaron in 2008 released his fifteenth album He Believed: A Son’s Tribute.  The album, which contained 12 newly recorded tracks, was highlighted by the title track He Believed, a tribute that Aaron & his wife Thea penned in tribute to Aaron’s late father.

2008

In 2008 Aaron contributed 2 tracks to the 9/11 tribute album Never Forget—which also contained a track from Annual Summer Bash artist Pam Tillis, among others.  Aaron contributed a new song Free To Be Me and a re-recording of his #2 Country/#20 Pop hit Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly. 

2009

In Overdrive

Later in 2008 Aaron signed with Country Crossing Records, & in February 2009 released his sixteenth album In Overdrive, an album chiefly composed of truckdriving songs, including two singles: Drill Here, Drill Now & a version of Jerry Reed’s classic from Smokey & The Bandits, East Bound And Down.  The album that reached #73 on the Country Albums chart also contained versions of Eddie Rabbitt’s Drivin’ My Life Away, Ronnie Millsap’s Prisoner Of The Highway, Alabama’s Roll On, & Merle Haggard’s classic Movin’ On.

2009

For the Holiday season of 2009 Aaron made a guest appearance on this holiday collection that heralded many Christmas standards including Blue Christmas, Silent Night, Joy To The World, & The Christmas Song. Aaron, along with host Charlie Daniels appears with other guests and friends such as Jewel, The Grascals, Kathy Mattea, Mac Wiseman & others. Aaron & Charlie duet on a banjo-filled ode to Christmases at home in Christmas Time Down South.

2010

In October 2010, continuing a career-long dedication to involving himself in projects to benefit the greater good, Aaron led the charge along with producer James Stroud to launch a new benefit album called I Wanna Play!, an album to put musical instruments into the hands of every child in America. Aaron & James jointly selected an incredible line-up of participants including our good friend Lorrie Morgan.  Aaron’s cornerstone song, I Wanna Play that he co-wrote with his wife Thea,  was released to country radio in January 2011.  The album proceeds benefit the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Foundation’s Wanna Play Fund, which provides musical instruments to schools and other music programs across the country, allowing many who otherwise couldn’t afford instruments to enjoy the fun and proven benefits of playing music. To learn more about NAMM or to purchase a CD, visit www.nammfoundation.org