What This Country Needs

Infobox Album
Name = What This Country Needs
Type = studio
Artist = Aaron Tippin


Released = start date|1998|10|06
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length =
Label = Lyric Street
Producer = ???
Reviews =
Last album = "Greatest Hits… and Then Some"
(1997)
This album = "What This Country Needs"
(1998)
Next album = "People Like Us"
(2000)

What This Country Needs is a 1998 album released by country music artist Aaron Tippin. It was his first full studio album since switching from RCA Records 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 (now Hot Country Songs) charts in 1998-1999. "Sweetwater" was originally recorded by McBride & the Ride on their 1994 album "Hurry Sundown", and Greg Holland on his 1994 album "Let Me Drive".

Track listing

#"What This Country Needs" (Aaron Tippin, Donny Kees) – 3:09
#"For You I Will" (Mark Nesler, Tony Martin) – 3:32
#"Her" (Craig Wiseman, Jeffrey Steele) – 3:14
#"I Didn't Come This Far (Just to Walk Away)" (Michael P. Heeney, Tippin) – 2:55
#"I'm Leaving" (Ron Harbin, Aaron Barker, David Lewis) – 3:21
#"Nothing Compares to Loving You" (Wiseman, Steele) – 4:10
#"Don't Stop (We're Just Gettin' Started)" (Al Anderson, Dean Dillon) – 3:03
#Somewhere Under the Rainbow" (Scott Blackwell, Jerry Laseter, Kerry Kurt Phillips) – 3:35
#"Back When I Knew Everything" (Tippin, Mel Besher) – 3:02
#"Sweetwater" (Jon Vezner, Allen Shamblin) – 4:09
#"You're the Only Reason for Me" (Heeney, Tippin) – 3:32