Posted on 09/20/2008 3:48:13 AM PDT by Maelstorm
Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Aaron Tippin Official Website) - Like many Americans, platinum-selling recording artist, songwriter and producer Aaron Tippin is enduring the effects of high gas prices. Tippin's put his thoughts into music to pen "Drill Here, Drill Now," a song about how Americans truly feel and what we can do to help correct the problem. "I think we are all frustrated and I've seen how people are suffering," Tippin introduced. "It's severely hitting the blue collar, working class Americans-and those are the folks that have supported me throughout the years. It takes half a paycheck to cover the gas just to get to and from work. If I can be the messenger to help my American friends and neighbors understand that we really do have options and can create positive change, that's what I'm gonna do. 'Drill Here, Drill Now' is an empowering 'stand-up and pay attention' kind of song."
Capturing the essence of Newt Gingrich's current American Solutions Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less petition (that has gathered nearly 1.5 million signatures to date-visit www.americansolutions.com/actioncenter/petitions ) and his latest publication by the same name, Aaron's song is in direct alignment with Newt's message. The chorus of Tippin's new song says it all: "Drill here, drill now...How 'bout some oil from our own soil that belongs to us anyhow...No more debatin' we're tired of waitin' everybody shout out loud...drill here, drill now."
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Go, Aaron! He’s a good ole SC boy from Travelers Rest, if I’m not mistaken.
He's one of the "good-uns".
Blue Ridge, actually. Around here, we say that it is the same thing... only different. LOL
Thank you for the clarification, sir! Pretty country up that way. We sometimes go to the races at Travelers Rest Speedway on Hwy. 25. We used to go to Riverside Speedway on Hwy. 11, but that property has now been claimed by yet another Cliffs development. :(
I love the song. It is good to see musicians stepping forward who love their country without preconditions.
Does anybody know what Carrie Underwood’s stance on this is? I want to be fully informed.
Its paved now, but when I was a kid it was dirt. David Pearson, Tiny Lund, and others who made it to the big time started out there.
Dale Earnhardt's daddy, Ralph's name is on the wall as a past track champion.
I still remember those Saturday nights--- getting home late after the race, and still having to sit in the tub to soak off the red dust from the track so I would be clean for church on Sunday morning.
No, I’ve never been there, but my husband may have gone up there before we were married. Nowadays we stick to dirt, no asphalt for us.
There’s a lot of nights we’ll get in the shower after the races and watch the water run red as you wash all that dirt off you.
If Wikipedia can be believed,
Aaron Tippin was born in Pensacola, Florida, but raised in Travelers Rest, South Carolina, where he went to Blue Ridge High School. In the 1970s, he made a living as a singer, performing in various local bars.
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Are there really enough "local bars" up there to make a living singing in them? Perhaps they consider Greenville, Spartanburg, Columbia & Charlotte as local.
The “democrats controll congress” should be added to the themes that make country music great. Up there with “my dog died”, “my wife cheats”, and “whiskey messed me up”.
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