Dean Dillon
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| Background information | |
| Born | March 26, 1955 |
| Origin | Lake City, Tennessee, USA |
| Genre(s) | Country |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1979-present |
| Label(s) | RCA Capitol Atlantic |
| Associated acts | Gary Stewart George Strait |
Dean Dillon (born March 26, 1955) is an American country music singer-songwriter, primarily known for his songwriting successes. He was born Dean Rutherford on March 26, 1955, in Lake City, Tennessee. He has four children: Brass, Chance,Jessie Jo (who he has begun collaborating with)and Song.
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[edit] Career
[edit] Recording Artist
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)." He was featured on several duet albums with songwriting partner Gary Stewart. 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.
[edit] Songwriter
As a songwriter, early successes includes George Jones' 1983 hit, "Tennessee Whiskey". Dillon has written several of George Strait's 55 number one singles. 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 (even though the song was never a single).
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
| Year | Album | US Country | Label |
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| 1982 | Brotherly Love (with Gary Stewart) | 23 | RCA |
| 1983 | Those Were the Days (with Gary Stewart) | 54 | |
| 1988 | Slick Nickel | Capitol | |
| 1989 | I've Learned to Live | ||
| 1991 | Out of Your Ever Lovin' Mind | 58 | Atlantic |
| 1993 | Hot, Country and Single |
[edit] Singles
| Year | Single | US Country | Album |
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| 1979 | "I'm Into the Bottle (To Get You Out of My Mind)" | 30 | Single only |
| 1980 | "What Good Is a Heart" | 28 | |
| "Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her" | 25 | ||
| 1981 | "They'll Never Take Me Alive" | 57 | |
| "Jesus Let Me Slide" | 77 | ||
| 1982 | "Brotherly Love" (with Gary Stewart) | 41 | Brotherly Love |
| "Play This Old Working Day Away" | 74 | ||
| "You to Come Home To" | 65 | ||
| 1983 | "Those Were the Days" (with Gary Stewart) | 47 | Those Were the Days |
| "Smokin' in the Rockies" (with Gary Stewart) | 71 | ||
| "Famous Last Words of a Fool" | 67 | Single only | |
| 1988 | "The New Never Wore Off My Sweet Baby" | 51 | Slick Nickel |
| "I Go to Pieces" | 39 | ||
| 1989 | "Hey Heart" | 58 | |
| "It's Love That Makes You Sexy" | 61 | I've Learned to Live | |
| "Back in the Swing of Things" | 89 | ||
| 1991 | "Holed Up in Some Honky Tonk" | 69 | Out of Your Ever Lovin' Mind |
| "Friday Night's Woman" | 39 | ||
| "Don't You Even (Think About Leavin')" | 62 | ||
| 1993 | "Hot, Country and Single" | 62 | Hot, Country and Single |
[edit] Songs written by Dean Dillon
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."
Dean has written, or helped write the following singles for other artists:
- Alabama: "Changes Comin' On"
- Brooks & Dunn: "I'll Never Forgive My Heart"
- David Allan Coe: "Tennessee Whiskey"
- Gary Stewart: "An Empty Glass"
- George Jones: "Tennessee Whiskey"
- George Strait: "A Real Good Place to Start" (with Gary Nicholson)
- George Strait: "Back to Bein' Me" (with Hank Cochran)
- George Strait: "Down and Out" (with Frank Dycus)
- George Strait: "Easy Come, Easy Go" (with Aaron Barker)
- George Strait: "Famous Last Words of a Fool" (with Rex Huston)
- George Strait: "For Christ's Sake, It's Christmas" (with Hank Cochran)
- George Strait: "Four Down and Twelve Across" (with Tom Douglas)
- George Strait: "Friday Night Fever" (with Blake Mevis & Frank Dycus)
- George Strait: "Good News, Bad News" (with Dale Dodson & Lee Ann Womack)
- George Strait: "Her Goodbye Hit Me in the Heart" (with Frank Dycus)
- George Strait: "Holding My Own" (with Pam Belford)
- George Strait: "Honk If You Honky Tonk" (with Ken Mellons & John Northrup)
- George Strait: "Honky Tonk Crazy" (with Frank Dycus)
- George Strait: "Honkytonkville" (with Buddy Brock & Kim Williams)
- George Strait: "I Ain't Her Cowboy Anymore" (with Scotty Emerick & Maria Canon-Goodman)
- George Strait: "I Get Along With You" (with Dycus, M.F. Cannon, Squires & Darrell)
- George Strait: "I'd Just as Soon Go" (with Aaron Barker)
- George Strait: "If I Know Me" (with Pam Belford)
- George Strait: "If It's Gonna Rain" (with Donnie Kees & Scott Emerick)
- George Strait: "I'm All Behind You Now"
- George Strait: "Is It That Time Again" (with Buddy Cannon & Vern Gosdin)
- George Strait: "It Ain't Cool to Be Crazy About You" (with Royce Porter)
- George Strait: "I've Come to Expect It From You" (with Buddy Cannon)
- George Strait: "Just Any Old Love Won't Do" (with Frank Dycus)
- George Strait: "Lead On" (with Teddy Gentry)
- George Strait: "Marina Del Rey" (with Frank Dycus)
- George Strait: "Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her"
- George Strait: "Ocean Front Property" (with Hank Cochran & Royce Porter)
- George Strait: "Peace of Mind" (with Aaron Barker)
- George Strait: "Rockin' in the Arms of Your Memory" (with Norro Wilson)
- George Strait: "She Let Herself Go" (with Kerry Kurt Phillips)
- George Strait: "She's Playing Hell Trying to Get Me to Heaven" (with Quillen & Wills)
- George Strait: "She Took the Wind From His Sails" (with Donnie Kees)
- George Strait: "That's My Kind of Woman" (with Tammy Hyler)
- George Strait: "That's the Breaks" (with Royce Porter)
- George Strait: "That's Where I Wanna Take Our Love" (with Hank Cochran)
- George Strait: "The Best Day" (with Carson Chamberlain)
- George Strait: "The Chair" (with Hank Cochran)
- George Strait: "The Road Less Traveled" (with Buddy Brock)
- George Strait: "Unwound" (with Frank Dycus)
- George Strait: "We're Supposed to Do That Now and Then" (with D. Anthony & J. Royer)
- George Strait: "What Would Your Memory Do" (with Hank Cochran)
- George Strait: "Without Me Around" (with John Northrup)
- George Strait: "Without You Here" (with Royce Porter)
- George Strait: "You Sure Got This Ol' Redneck Feelin' Blue" (with B. Rabin)
- Hank Williams, Jr., Waylon Jennings, Ernest Tubb: "Leave Them Boys Alone"
- Keith Whitley: "Miami, My Amy", "Homecoming '63"
- Kenny Chesney: "A Chance", "A Lot of Things Different"
- Lee Ann Womack: "Twenty Years and Two Husbands Ago"
- Pam Tillis: "All the Good Ones Are Gone", "Spilled Perfume"
- Paul Overstreet: "If I Could Bottle This Up"
- Sammy Kershaw: "One Day Left to Live"
- Shenandoah: "Darned If I Don't (Danged If I Do)"
- Toby Keith: "A Little Too Late"
- Vern Gosdin: "Is It Raining at Your House", "Set 'Em Up, Joe"
