Dean Dillon
Dean Dillon ( born March 26, 1955 in Lake City, Tennessee) is an American country music singer and songwriter.
Life
Getting Started
Dean wrote before the age of eleven songs, and had his first public performances at the age of thirteen. Then he played a few years in nearby Knoxville. After finishing school, he moved to Nashville. About the songwriter Frank Dycus, he managed to enter the country scene. From 1976 he worked for four years in the Opryland amusement park. As a member of the Mac McGahey Quartet he placed there on the stage Hank Williams dar. During these years he came under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
Career
1979 Dillon began to compose again. Barbara Mandrell recorded some of his songs. Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius arrived with his Lying Here In Love With You number one on the country charts. It was George Strait, who used his material mainly. Overall, Dean Dillon wrote about forty songs for the superstar of country music, including several number - one hits. He became one of the most sought-after songwriters of the 1980s. Besides Strait attended by George Jones, Steve Wariner, David Allan Coe and Vern Gosdin on his songs.
Parallel to his activities as a songwriter Dillon produced their own plates. In 1979, he reached a middle place in the country charts with his debut single I'm Into The Bottle. There were other, moderately successful plates. In 1982, he teamed up with singer Gary Stewart. This collaboration went out two albums. Stewart, who just had a rehab behind him, was also massively alcohol-and drug -dependent and thus strengthened only Dillons problems. The partnership broke up soon and he retired for some years from the public. Finally, he managed to fight down his addiction. He married and became a father.
In the meantime, others were successful with his songs, so he remained in business. In 1988, he again began to take plates. His most successful album Out Of Your Ever - Lovin ' Mind appeared in 1991.