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Bob's short story "Cheeseburger Boogie" included in "A Guitar and a Pen," a collection of stories by Country Music's greatest songwriters. www.aguitarandapen.com.

Bob will be performing with Kix Brooks in Iraq January 24-30. Other upcoming appearances include a Superbowl Kick-Off Party w/ Kix in New York, NY, MelDiBurpho performances in Huntsville, AL and Nashville, TN, and shows w/ The HitMen of Music Row in Dallas, TX and West Palm Beach, FL. For details, visit the Schedule page.

New music alert!! Bob has a song on the new Van Zant record My Kind Of Country. It's a song he wrote with the Van Zant brothers called It's All About You. He also has the TITLE cut to Gary Allan's new record, Living Hard. Bob wrote this song with Gary Allan and Odie Blackmon. And don't forget about the new Brooks And Dunn record, Cowboy Town - Bob has three songs on this album! Go Bob!

Bob's song Something In The Water (co-written with Al Anderson and Jeffery Steele) is featured in the movie, The Kingdom. Check it out!

Bob will be performing at The Ryman Auditorium with The HitMen of Music Row (Bob, Craig Wiseman, Tony Mullins and Jeffery Steele) to Benefit Second Harvest on Tuesday, September 18 at 7:30pm. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster: www.ticketmaster.com

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Also, Bob will be participating in the Atlantis Songwriters Festival in The Bahamas November 29 - December 3. This event will be sponsored by BMI. For package information, call 1-800-atlantis or call Caldwell Travel (615) 327-2720.

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Bob will be performing some of his hits and talking about his nomination for the Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame on 103.3 WKDF (Nashville) Wednesday, September 12 at 8am.

On Tuesday, September 25, Bob and Craig Wiseman will be on 97.9 WSIX's (Nashville) morning show (at 9am) being interviewed by their pal, Gerry House.

The New York Post will run an interview on September 23 that Bob recently did from his office here in Nashville.

Bob Nominateed For Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame!

Fifteen award-winning songwriters, including Flatt & Scruggs, Hank Williams Jr., Bob DiPiero, MacMcAnally and Thom Schuyler, were nominated Monday for induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

"This is an amazing group of nominees, and every one of them is extremely worthy of induction," said Roger Murrah, Chairman of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Foundation and himself a 2005 inductee.

The slate of nominees, divided into Songwriter and Songwriter/Artist categories, recognizes songwriters whose first significant works achieved commercial success and/or artistic recognition at least 20 years ago and who have "positively impacted and been closely associated with the Nashville music community and deemed to be outstanding and significant." Two from the Songwriter category and one from the Songwriter/Artist category will be honored with induction on October 14.

The 10 nominees in the Songwriter category are: Paul Craft ("Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life" by Moe Bandy), Bob DiPiero ("American Made" by the Oak Ridge Boys), Kye Fleming ("I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool" by Barbara Mandrell), Larry Henley ("The Wind Beneath My Wings" by Bette Midler), Mac McAnally ("Old Flame" by Alabama), Earl "Peanutt" Montgomery ("We're Gonna Hold On" by George Jones and Tammy Wynette), Bob Morrison ("You Decorated My Life" by Kenny Rogers), Thom Schuyler ("16th Avenue" by Lacy J. Dalton), L.E. White ("After the Fire is Gone" by Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn) and Lawton Williams ("Fraulein" by Bobby Helms).

The five nominees in the Songwriter/Artist category are: J.J. Cale ("Cocaine" by Eric Clapton), Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs ("Don't Get Above Your Raisin'"), Amy Grant ("Baby Baby"), Tony Joe White ("Rainy Night in Georgia") and Hank Williams, Jr. ("All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight").

The group of nominees was recommended to the board by the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Foundation (NaSHOF) Nominating Committee, which is comprised of Hall of Fame members and Music Row historians. Votes are cast by Hall of Fame members, Professional Songwriter members of the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI), and the boards of the NaSHOF and NSAI.

Established in 1970, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame boasts 156 members, including songwriting luminaries such as Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell, Bob Dylan, Don & Phil Everly, Vince Gill, Harlan Howard, Roger Miller, Bill Monroe, Roy Orbison, Dolly Parton, Carl Perkins, Jimmie Rodgers, Cindy Walker, Jimmy Webb and Hank Williams, Sr.

The official Hall of Fame Dinner and Induction Ceremony will take place Oct. 14.

August 24, 2007

COWBOY CRUSH/Miss Difficult
Writer: Dennie Linde; Producer: Doug Johnson, Bob DiPiero; Publisher: EMI Blackwood/Rising Gorge, BMI; Curb/Asylum (CDX)
- The lyrics come fast and furious, and every one is an ear-catching gem. The thumping track rocks splendidly. I dig this.

Hit songwriters Kix Brooks, Brett James, Tim Nichols, Victoria Shaw and host Bob DiPiero performed in front of two sold-out audiences on July 18, as part of the CMA Songwriters Series at Joe's Pub in New York City. The event was open to the public, but was also attended by the CMA Board of Directors who were in town for their quarterly Board meeting.

The CMA Songwriters Series was asked to participate in "Joe's Pub in the Park" at the Delacore Theater in Central Park on Sept. 20. In addition, there will be two more shows in the CMA Songwriters Series at Joe's Pub this year, including Oct. 4 ("CMA Songwriters Series Salutes the Women of Country Music") and Nov. 29 ("CMA Songwriters Series Salutes the Groups/Duos of Country Music"). Songwriters for these shows will be announced soon.

The HitMen of Music Row - Bob DiPiero, Craig Wiseman, Tony Mullins and Jeffery Steele will be making their television debut on September 26, 2007 on Great American Country! This will be a show you will not want to miss!