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CMA Songwriters Series Returns to Joe's Pub

CMA Songwriters Series will return to New York City's Joe's Pub Thursday, March 25 for the popular series' sixth installment. Featured writers include Capitol Nashville artist Dierks Bentley, Jim Beavers ("Watching Airplanes," "Trying To Stop Your Leaving"), David Lee Murphy ("Living In Fast Forward," "Dust On The Bottle") and Bob DiPiero ("If You Ever Stop Loving Me," "You Can’t Take The Honky Tonk Out of the Girl")..

Bob DiPiero Celebrates His fifteenth #1 Hit with Tim McGraw's "Southern Voice"

Bob DiPiero is celebrating his fifteenth No. 1 hit with "Southern Voice" written with Tom Douglas and recorded by Tim McGraw. This marks four decades of hits for the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member. His first chart-topper was 1983's "American Made," a hit for the Oak Ridge Boy.

Bob DiPiero's song, Southern Voice by Tim McGraw Reaches Number 4 on Billboard Chart

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Bob DiPiero's song, Southern Voice by Tim McGraw Featured in Hit Movie "Blindside"

The new movie, Blindside stars Sandra Bulluck: Learn more and watch the trailer

Bob DiPiero launches a fan page on Facebook

Check out Bob DiPiero's Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/bobdipiero

Bob DiPiero and the Floating Stones w/ Special Guests, Emily West and Eric Paslay

Just Announced! - Bob DiPiero and The Floating Stones with special guests Emily West and Eric Paslay to play at Third and Lindsley on Dec. 12 at 7pm.

Bob DiPiero Added to CMA Songwriters Series Line-Up on Tuesday, November 10

DiPiero Joins Randy Houser, Brett James, Rivers Rutherford and Victoria Shaw at Nashville's Limelight. Tickets for the Nov. 10 CMA Songwriters Series are $10. For information about Limelight or to order tickets, visit www.limelightnashville.com or call (615) 780-3098. Doors open at 8:00pm, show starts at 9:30pm Central.

McGraw Offers Fans Southern Voice

Bob DiPiero's song, "Southern Voice" is the title track of Tim McGraw's forthcoming CD release, Southern Voice (Curb) due out on October 20th.

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GAC Re-Airing Hitmen of Music Row

GAC will be re-airing episodes of the Hitmen of Music Row program beginning with an hour-long show on Wednesday, September 16th at 9:00 PM Central, and continuing through Wednesday, October 14th (9:30 PM).

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Saturday, August 22nd @ 8:00pm and Sunday, August 23rd @ 6:00pm. Peformers include Bob DiPiero, Jeffrey Steele, Craig Wiseman, Tim Nichols and Al Anderson. Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Reba McEntire, Vince Gill and so many more have all had hits written by five of Nashville’s biggest songwriters. Now experience Al Anderson, Bob DiPiero, Tim Nichols, Jeffrey Steele and Craig Wiseman live in an intimate setting as they perform the hits they have written and tell you the stories that inspired each one.

Buy your tickets at Fallsview Casino Resort's Box Office (open Noon on show days), at all Ticketmaster locations, by calling Ticketmaster at 1-877-833-3110 or online at www.ticketmaster.ca.

Also, DiPiero featured in the CMA Songwriters Series 2009 at Joes Pub, New York. Refer to the website schedule for dates.

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Songwriter Series takes Nashville Nationwide. CMA Songwriters Series: Now in its fifth year, the popular CMA Songwriters Series will revisit New York City. Joe's Pub will host another night spotlighting several of Nashville's finest songwriters on Thursday, July 30 (6:30 and 9:30 PM/ET). Hosted by Bob DiPiero ("Take Me As I Am" recorded by Faith Hill, "You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl" recorded by Brooks & Dunn, "Blue Clear Sky" recorded by George Strait, and "Gone" recorded by Montgomery Gentry), other participating songwriters include platinum-selling Mercury Nashville recording artist Billy Currington ("I Got a Feeling," "Why, Why, Why," and "Walk A Little Straighter," all recorded by Currington), Keith Follese ("Something Like That" recorded by Tim McGraw, "The Way You Love Me" recorded by Faith Hill, "Before You Kill Us All" recorded by Randy Travis, and "I Love You" recorded by Martina McBride), and Jason Sellers ("Strange" recorded by Reba McEntire, "Some People Change" recorded by Montgomery Gentry, and "I Still Miss You" recorded by Keith Anderson).

http://www.musicrow.com/2009/07/songwriters-series-take-nashville-nationwide-plus-gma-and-ibma

DiPiero's songs "Southern Voice" and "Indian Summer" to be featured on two fall Superstar releases. Genre Superstars Prep
Pre-Holiday Releases: Two fall releases will likely give Country album sales a big year-end boost. A new album from Tim McGraw is expected
this September via Curb Records. Southern Voice, his first studio effort in more than two years, finds the superstar reunited with longtime producer Byron Gallimore. The lead single, "It's a Business Doing Pleasure With You," goes to radio today and was written by rock star Chad Kroeger (Nickelback) and Nashville hit tunesmith Brett James. McGraw will promote Southern Voice with an extensive tour in 2010, and is currently on a short run of fairs and festivals. This album will be the follow-up to Let It Go, which debuted at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 in April 2007. A double disc hits package from Arista's Brooks & Dunn is coming Sept. 8. #1s...and then some will be a 30-song collection featuring classics, chart-toppers and two new tracks, including the duo's current hit, "Indian Summer." The most comprehensive collection to date for B&D fans, #1s...and then some spans 23 singles to hit the top of the country airplay charts over the past 18 years, from early classics like “Neon Moon" and "That Ain't No Way to Go," to anthemic hits "Only in America," "Red Dirt Road," and "Play Something Country," to their ACM and CMA Song of the Year winner, "Believe."

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2009 CMA Songwriter Seriess at Joe's Pub in NY kicked off on March 19 with Bob as host, joined by Dave Berg, Casey Beathard, Rivers Rutherford and Sarah Buxton. The next event at Joe's will take place in May.

Bob writes with funk music innovator, George Clinton, for CMT's Gone Country 3. Visit CMT.com for show times.

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!