Aaron Tippin (born Aaron Dupree Tippin, July 3, 1958 in Pensacola, Florida; in addition, the song helped to establish him as a neotraditionalist country act with songs that catered primarily to the American working class. Under RCA's tenure, he recorded five studio albums and a Greatest Hits package. By the later half of the 1990s, however, his sales and chart performance began to wane, and he was dropped from the label's roster.