Tool Box (Aaron Tippin album)

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Tool Box
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ReleasedNovember 21, 1995 (1995-11-21)
Recorded1995
Studio
Genre Country
Length35:13
Label RCA Nashville
Producer Steve Gibson
Aaron Tippin chronology
Lookin' Back at Myself
(1994)
Tool Box
(1995)
Greatest Hits… and Then Some
(1997)
Professional ratings
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Tool Box is the fifth studio album from American country music artist Aaron Tippin. It features the singles "That's as Close as I'll Get to Loving You", "Without Your Love", "Everything I Own" and "How's the Radio Know". "That's as Close as I'll Get to Loving You" reached Number One on the Billboard country charts in 1995, giving Tippin the second Number One of his career. "Without Your Love" reached #22, and the other two singles both missed Top 40 in the U.S. The album was certified gold by the RIAA. The album was recorded at Woodland Sound Studios' Studio A and Sound Emporium Studios' Studio A, both in Nashville, Tennessee. [1]

Contents

"You've Always Got Me" was previously recorded by Pearl River on their 1994 album Pearl River , and "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 Tippin's 1994 album Lookin' Back at Myself .

Track listing

Tool Box track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Ten Pound Hammer" Dennis Linde 3:02
2."That's as Close as I'll Get to Loving You"3:16
3."A Real Nice Problem to Have"
3:15
4."Without Your Love"3:29
5."How's the Radio Know"3:09
6."Everything I Own"
3:32
7."I Can Help" Billy Swan 3:23
8."You Gotta Start Somewhere"
3:02
9."She Made a Man Out of a Mountain of Stone"
  • Terry M. Brown
  • Tippin
2:50
10."You've Always Got Me"
3:03
11."Country Boy's Tool Box"3:03
Total length:35:13

Personnel

As listed in liner notes. [1]

Chart performance

Chart (1995)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums12
U.S. Billboard 20063

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Tool Box (CD). Aaron Tippin. RCA Records. 1995. 07863-66740-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. AllMusic review