Early Life
Dillon is a native of Lake City, Tennessee, where he was born on March 26, 1955. He began playing the guitar at the age of seven, and when he was 15 he made his first public appearance as a singer and performer in the Knoxville variety show Jim Clayton Startime. After finishing high school in 1973 he hitchhiked to Nashville with hopes of starting a music career.
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