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Dean Dillon: Dean Dillon Interviewed at the 2011 BMI Country Awards
Captured at 2011 BMI Country Awards
Crested Butte Songwriters Festival Brings Hit-Makers Together to Beat Breast Cancer

The inaugural Crested Butte Songwriters Festival will feature performances by a collection of the best performing songwriters in the world. Slated for January 13-14, 2012 at the elevation-hotel-and-spa Crested Butte Mountain Resort in Colorado, the festival will revolve around two nights of performances staged at local hot spots. Crowds will experience the faces, voices and stories behind hit songs during signature in-the-round acoustic performances and raucous, dance-inducing sets will dominate…
Bobby Braddock, Rhett Akins, Dallas Davidson, Sony/ATV & More Honored at 2011 BMI Country Awards

BMI celebrated the songwriters and publishers behind country music’s most-performed songs of the past year during the 59th annual BMI Country Awards. BMI staged the event in its Nashville offices, located in the heart of Music Row, where behind-the-scenes hit-makers and center stage superstars came together to toast one another as songwriters. Rhett Akins and Dallas Davidson share the Songwriter of the Year crown. Georgia natives and close…
BMI Congratulates Our Members on More Than 375 Grammy Nominations!

Read BMI’s 2011 Grammy nominees news story from Decmeber 2, 2010. Name, Number of Nominations Eminem, 10 Lady Gaga, 6 John Legend, 5 Rihanna, 5 The Roots, 5 B.o.B, 4 Drake (socan), 4 Cee Lo Green,…
Eminem, Lady Gaga & Lady Antebellum Lead List of 2011 BMI Grammy Nominees

Eminem, Lady Gaga and Lady Antebellum lead BMI’s triumphant surge in the 2011 Grammy nominations, announced last night in Los Angeles. With 10 nominations, Eminem proves yet again that popularity and critical acclaim are best enjoyed hand in hand. His Recovery will vie for Album of the Year, while "Love the Way You Lie,” recorded and co-written by Eminem and his…
Legends Toast Hank Cochran at BMI

Living legends gathered to salute iconic songwriter Hank Cochran Monday, June 15 at BMI’s Music Row offices. Merle Haggard, Bobby Bare, Dean Dillon, Jamey Johnson, Lee Ann Womack, Gene Watson, Red Lane, and Whitey Shafer took turns delivering acoustic versions of Hank Cochran classics, while guests including Elvis Costello, Cowboy Jack Clement,…
Award-Winning Hitmaker Dean Dillon Entertains Media Executives
BMI award-winning country songwriter Dean Dillon provided the entertainment at Federated Media’s Annual Achievement Awards, held January 23 in Angola, Indiana. Dillon, who was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002, has written 13 number one songs for George Strait and dozens of other hits for artists such as Kenny Chesney, Brooks & Dunn, Lee Ann Womack and…
Heidi Newfield

Heidi Newfield may have recently launched a solo career after a decade fronting the trio Trick Pony, but that doesn’t mean she’s lost her taste for songwriting collaborations. “I love co-writing,” she declares. “I love the idea of sitting in a room and brainstorming, throwing ideas out: ‘Okay, I’ve got this and this and this, and what are you in the mood for today?…
‘A Little Too Late’ Celebration Right On Time
Songwriting heavy weights Dean Dillon and Scotty Emerick recently enjoyed a laudatory dinner at Flemming's courtesy of BMI. Friends and colleagues of the two chart-topping maestros gathered at the Nashville steakhouse to celebrate Toby Keith's latest No. 1 single "A Little Too Late," which Emerick and Dillon co-wrote with Keith.
Scotty Emerick Honored for 7 Million Plays
BMI's Jody Williams and Harry Warner surprised hit songwriter Scotty Emerick recently at manager Erv Woolsey's Music Row offices with a rare presentation: five "Million-Air" performance awards and one award for two million performances. One million spins is the equivalent of at least 50,000 hours, or more than 5.7 years of continuous airplay on U.S. radio and television, and includes only feature broadcast performances, not background.
Mission to ‘Change and Save Lives’ Front and Center at CITR XII
Country in the Rockies XII, the annual signature fund-raising event for the T.J. Martell Foundation's Nashville division brought music fans to Club Med in Crested Butte, Colo., for four days of mingling with artists and songwriters in one of the best winter sport settings in the Rocky Mountains. Proceeds from the event support innovative research at the Frances Williams Preston Laboratories, part of the Vanderbilt-Ingram…
Recent Dean Dillon events
| Jan 15 2012 | Crested Butte Songwriters Festival |
| Jan 14 2012 | Crested Butte Songwriters Festival |
| Jan 13 2012 | Crested Butte Songwriters Festival |
