Now & Then (CD - 2006)

Personnel: Tom Bukovac (guitar, guitars); Steven Sheehan (acoustic guitar); Kelly Back (electric guitar); Glen Duncan (mandolin, fiddle); Aubrie Haynie (fiddle); Gary Prim (piano); Jimmie Lee Sloas (bass instrument); Wayne Killius (drums); Wanda Watkins, Thea Tippin, Cedric Sesley, Dave Sloas, Markeith Braden, Shonte Johnson, Vicki Hampton (background vocals); Ilya Toshinsky (acoustic guitar, mandolin); Mike Johnson (steel guitar); Gordon Mote (keyboards); Brian Pruitt, Shannon Forrest (percussion); Kim Fleming, Perry Coleman (background vocals).

Audio Mixers: Daniel Frizsell; Derek Bason.

Liner Note Author: Aaron Tippin.

Recording information: KMG Studios; Legends Studio.

Photographer: Glenn Sweitzer.

Releasing his whopping eighth overall greatest-hits package--culled from only nine proper albums--and the fourth since his 2002 patriotic anthem "Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly" crossed over into the pop charts, Aaron Tippin could be accused of a little overkill on NOW AND THEN. Still, nobody does working-class southern-rock-inflected country better and with more authenticity than Tippin, and NOW AND THEN includes many of the hits from his formidable catalog, like "Working Man's PHD" and "The Call of the Wild." minimize