Aaron Dupree Tippin (born July 3, 1958) is an American country music singer, songwriter and record producer.

Initially a songwriter for Acuff-Rose Music, he gained a recording contract with RCA Nashville in 1990.

After leaving Lyric Street in 2006, he founded a personal label known as Nippit Records, on which he issued the compilation album Now & Then.

In addition, he has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including three Number Ones: "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio" (1992), "That's as Close as I'll Get to Loving You" (1995), and "Kiss This" (2000), as well as the top ten hits "You've Got to Stand for Something", "I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way", "My Blue Angel", "Workin' Man's Ph.D.", "For You I Will", and "Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly".

By the time Tippin was 20, he was working as a commercial pilot, truck driver and a pipe fitter.

During this time he wrote songs for The Kingsmen, David Ball, Mark Collie, and Charley Pride.

The song, with its message of standing up for one's personal beliefs, became popular as an anthem for soldiers fighting in the Gulf War at the time,[2] and reached a peak of No.

[3] Brian Mansfield of Allmusic, in his review of the album, said that "This exciting hardcore country comes from a man whose previous blue-collar experience as a farm hand, welder, pilot, and truck driver made him a publicist's dream.

"[4] Giving it an "A", Alanna Nash of Entertainment Weekly praised Tippin's "humor" and "pointed language".

Like Call of the Wild and Lookin' Back at Myself before it, Tool Box also earned a gold certification from the RIAA.

In 1998, Tippin moved to Lyric Street Records, then a newly formed subsidiary label of the Walt Disney Company.

Co-written by Tippin with his wife, Thea, the song went to the top of the Billboard country charts, becoming his third and final Number One hit.

It served as the lead-off to his second Lyric Street album, People Like Us, and the David Lee Murphy-penned title track reached Top 20 in 2001.

In the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, he released the patriotic-themed song "Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly".

Stars & Stripes produced three more singles, including the ballad "Love Like There's No Tomorrow", a duet with Thea.

His first release for the album, Aaron Tippin: Now & Then, produced the singles "Ready to Rock (In a Country Kind of Way)" and "He Believed", the latter of which peaked at No.

[5] Several of Tippin's songs, such as "Workin' Man's Ph.D" and "You've Got to Stand for Something", are mid-tempo anthems that address the working class, and are often patriotic in nature.