Dean Dillon

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Dean Dillon (born March 26, 1955) is an American country music singer-songwriter, primarily known for his songwriting successes. He was born on March 26, 1955, in Lake City, Tennessee.

As a recording artist between 1979 and 1983, Dillon charted eight times, including with one top 30 hit, "I'm into the Bottle (To Get You Out of My Mind)." Early songwriting success earned Dillon a recording deal with Capitol Records for whom he released two studio albums. In 1991, and now at Atlantic Records, Dillon released his most successful, and most recent, studio album, Out of Your Ever Lovin' Mind.

As a songwriter, early successes includes George Jones' 1983 hit, "Tennessee Whiskey". Dillon has written eleven of George Strait's 52 number one hits. Between 1985 and 2005, George Strait scored number one hits with Dillon's songs "The Chair", "Nobody In His Right Mind Would've Left Her", "It Ain't Cool To Be Crazy About You", "Ocean Front Property", "Famous Last Words Of A Fool", "I've Come To Expect It From You", "If I Know Me", "Easy Come, Easy Go", "Lead On", "The Best Day", and "She Let Herself Go". He also penned George Strait's duet with Lee Ann Womack, a song for which Strait and Womack won the CMA's Musical Event of the Year award for 2005.

Dillon has also notably worked with a younger generation of country stars including Toby Keith and Kenny Chesney. In 2002, he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame along with Bob Dylan and Shel Silverstein. Dillon co-wrote two songs on superstar Toby Keith's 2005 album Honkytonk University, and five on his 2006 album White Trash with Money, including the hit single, "A Little Too Late."