Dean Dillon - Songs Written By Dean Dillon

Songs Written By Dean Dillon

Dillon has 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 Toby Keith's 2005 album Honkytonk University, and five on his 2006 album White Trash with Money, including the 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" (with Ronnie Dunn & Janine Dunn)
  • 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: "Any Old Love Won't Do" (with Frank Dycus)
  • George Strait: "Back to Bein' Me" (with Hank Cochran)
  • George Strait: "Down and Out" (with Frank Dycus)
  • George Strait: "Drinkin' Man" (with George Strait & Bubba Strait)
  • 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 Frank Dycus & Blake Mevis)
  • George Strait: "Give Me More Time" (with Al Anderson & Scotty Emerick)
  • 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: "He's Got That Something Special" (with George Strait & Bubba Strait)
  • 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 Cannon-Goodman)
  • George Strait: "I Get Along With You" (with Frank Dycus, Murray F. Cannon, Raleigh Squires, & Jimmy Darrell)
  • George Strait: "I'd Just as Soon Go" (with Aaron Barker)
  • George Strait: "If I Know Me" (with Pam Belford)
  • George Strait: "If Heartaches Were Horses" (with Buddy Brock & Wil Nance)
  • George Strait: "If It's Gonna Rain" (with Scotty Emerick & Donny Kees)
  • 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: "Living for the Night" (with George Strait & Bubba Strait)
  • 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 David Wills & Charles Quillen)
  • George Strait: "She Took the Wind From His Sails" (with Donny 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 Breath You Take" (with Jessie Jo Dillon & Casey Beathard)
  • 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 David Anthony & Joseph-Nicholas-Pancrac Royer)
  • George Strait: "West Texas Town" (with Robert Earl Keen)
  • George Strait: "What Would Your Memories Do" (with Hank Cochran)
  • George Strait: "When You're in Love" (with Kerry Kurt Phillips)
  • 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 Buzz Rabin)
  • Hank Williams, Jr., Waylon Jennings, Ernest Tubb: "Leave Them Boys Alone"
  • Keith Whitley: "Miami, My Amy"
  • Keith Whitley: "Homecoming '63"
  • Kenny Chesney: "A Chance" (with Royce Porter)
  • Kenny Chesney: "A Lot of Things Different" (with Bill Anderson)
  • Kenny Chesney: "Be As You Are" (with Kenny Chesney)
  • Kenny Chesney: "Boats" (with Kenny Chesney & Scotty Emerick)
  • Kenny Chesney: "Guitars and Tiki Bars" (with Kenny Chesney & Mark Tamburino)
  • Kenny Chesney: "I'm Alive"" (with Kenny Chesney & Mark Tamburino)
  • Kenny Chesney: "She Always Says It First" (with Kenny Chesney)
  • Kenny Chesney: "Soul of a Sailor" (with Kenny Chesney & Scotty Emerick)
  • Kenny Chesney: "The Angel at the Top of My Tree" (with Kenny Chesney and Buddy Cannon)
  • Lee Ann Womack: "Have You Seen That Girl?"
  • Lee Ann Womack: "Twenty Years and Two Husbands Ago"
  • Lee Ann Womack: "We've Called It Everything But Quits"
  • Pam Tillis: "All the Good Ones Are Gone"
  • Pam Tillis: "Spilled Perfume"
  • Paul Overstreet: "If I Could Bottle This Up"
  • Rodney Atkins: "The Corner" (with Dale Dodson & Jessie Jo Dillon)
  • Sammy Kershaw: "One Day Left to Live"
  • Shenandoah: "Darned If I Don't (Danged If I Do)"
  • Toby Keith: "A Little Too Late" (with Toby Keith & Scotty Emerick)
  • Toby Keith: "Ain't No Right Way" (with Toby Keith & Scotty Emerick)
  • Toby Keith: "Burnin' Moonlight" (with Toby Keith & Scotty Emerick)
  • Toby Keith: "Get My Drink On" (with Toby Keith & Scotty Emerick)
  • Toby Keith: "Go with Her" (with Toby Keith & Scotty Emerick)
  • Toby Keith: "I Ain't Already There" (with Toby Keith & Scotty Emerick)
  • Toby Keith: "Knock Yourself Out" (with Toby Keith & Scotty Emerick)
  • Toby Keith: "Note to Self" (with Toby Keith & Scotty Emerick)
  • Toby Keith: "Too Far This Time" (with Toby Keith & Scotty Emerick)
  • Toby Keith: "You Ain't Leaving (Thank God Are Ya)" (with Toby Keith & Scotty Emerick)
  • Vern Gosdin: "Is It Raining at Your House"
  • Vern Gosdin: "Set 'Em Up, Joe"
  • Vince Gill: "Whippoorwill River" (with Vince Gill)

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