Dean Dillon earned election to the Country Music Hall of Fame as an enormously successful and influential songwriter. The numerous hits he has written or co-written include “Nobody in His Right Mind Would’ve Left Her,” “Tennessee Whiskey,” “Set ’Em Up Joe,” “A Lot of Things Different,” and “Ocean Front Property.” From an early age, he had a burning desire to write and sing country music. By the time he was a teenager, he was performing locally in East Tennessee, and at age eighteen he hitchhiked