CAF Airpower Museum and the Wings of Freedom III are pleased to present Aaron Tippin and special opening act The Copper Mountain Band on Saturday, September 7th at the Richland County Fairgrounds! Gates open at 6:00pm and the concert begins at 7:00pm! Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at the Sidney Chamber of Commerce or any Sidney financial institution.
Aaron Tippin: Growing up on a 110 acre farm in South Carolina, raising Black Angus, hogs, corn and soy beans, Tippin grew up with a work ethic not often seen today. He was an active 4-H member and raised two champion show hogs. He’s always had a love for music. In the late 1970s he began performing in local honky tonks. His big break came in 1985 when he competed on the TNN”s “You Can Be A Star” TV talent contest, landed a songwriter’s contract and moved to Music City.
In the beginning, times were tough: Tippin worked the midnight shift in a factory, wrote songs for music row during the day and lifted weights in the late afternoons. He began competing and winning body building competitions and in 1990 he performed at his first Nashville night club. These performances landed him a recording contract with RCA records in which he stayed until he signed with Lyric Street Records in 1998. In 2004 Tippin released his own record label, NIPPIT Records (Tippin spelled backwards).
Many people know Tippin for his baritone voice and his performances of “There Ain’t Nothin Wrong With The Radio”, “You’ve Got To Stand For Something”, “Kiss This”, and “Working Man’s PH.D”.
He has released nine studio albums and two compilations, one of which is “In Overdrive”
Tippin stated, “This album is a tribute to truckers.”
Tippin currently holds a CDL and has a great deal of respect for all of the men and women running hard every day. “America’s truckers are out there, busier than ever and keeping America rolling. I love truckin’ music and they do too. Their job is much harder than most people realize,” stated Tippin.
“In Overdrive” consists of some of the popular songs most truckers know and love, such as: “East Bound and Down”, “Six Days on the Road”, ‘Prisoner of the Highway”, “Roll On” and many others.
Tippins talents are not just limited to music and body building; he’s also a farmer, a winemaker, a pilot, a welder and a certified airframe and power plant mechanic. He currently resides on a 500 acre farm in Tennessee with his wife and two sons, where he grows food plots and loves to hunt whitetail deer and turkey.
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