‘Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly'
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
'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.'
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