When country singer Aaron Tippin helped finalize the track listing for his 2000 album “People Like Us,” he expected his label at the time, Lyric Street, to have no problem adding a patriotic number to the mix. He shared with music site Songfacts in 2016 that it’s a theme he’s never shied away from.
“I just always try to put something patriotic on my albums. But when we put together the album, for some reason the record label just didn’t think that was something they wanted to do.”