Watch GACs new show The Hitmen of Music Row and get up close and personal with four of country musics most outrageous songwriters: Bob DiPiero, Tony Mullins, Jeffrey Steele, and Craig Wiseman! Tune in and follow these songwriting gurus as they go on tour and go about their hit-making ways! GAC is offered on Ch. 167 on DISH Network and on Ch. 326 on DIRECTV; check your local cable listings or click here to search for GAC in your area!
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Between them, they have written nearly 40 #1 songs for stars from Trace Adkins to Van Zant and almost everyone in between!
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The Hitmen of Music Row share what inspired them to write some of their biggest hits! Get the scoop »
Ever wonder how the mind of a hit songwriter works? Click on all 10 questions below and see for yourself.
What's one thing that the other Hitmen don't
know about you?
I have this horrible highly-infectious disease. It's passed through close contact and the sharing of capos. One day you wake up and you have a flipper growing out of your chest. You get used to it, though.

They don't know I have a Doctoral degree in Reverse Psychology.

I was in an episode of “Murder, She Wrote.”
I've sat here for 10 minutes thinking… I either need to get a life or quit yakkin so much about me to my friends! (guess which one the guys pick?)
What inspires you?
Great music.
Mama's homemade soup beans and cornbread with fried taters and onions topped off with her banana pudding and a big ole glass of sweet tea.
My family and a great melody.
Life, Love, all of the mushy stuff, people being people, laughing at the comedy God writes so well, crying with friends until the comedy returns. Great Music.
What song do you wish you'd written?
“Like a Rolling Stone”

The Beatles—“Yesterday”
Hmmm…“Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground,” “I Always Get Lucky With You.” But there are hundreds.
All of those ones that got away that were in my head and never made it to tape.
What's your biggest pet peeve?
Inconsiderate people.
The 20 sec. delay it takes some drivers to pull out when a stop light turns green.
People who don't vote and then complain about government.

People who drain the coffee pot and don't make more.
If you weren't a songwriter, what else would you be doing?
God only knows!

Trying to be a bad songwriter.
Well my last job was a steel cutter baby, but I would've tried cartoon voiceovers, acting, or baseball or pro mountain biking.
Time?
Who's the “diva” of the Hitmen?
Well, the obvious answer is Jeff. But…my vote goes to Craig.

The obvious answer would be Jeffrey but the real answer is Bob.

It's either me or Bob. We're both delicate angry flowers.

Jeffrey????? Nah-it's Bob. (It's a cry for help)
If you could have a superpower, what would it be and why?
The ability to write only when I'm going to write a super smash. Then I wouldn't have to work so hard.
Invisible…so I could sneek in George Strait's next recording session the night before they record and put one of my songs at the top of his cut list.
To fly—then I could say “Hey” to Alex in heaven.
Time travel (is that a super power? Einsteinman…) Oh, the places I would go.
When writing or performing, what's your beverage of choice?
Writing: Coffee, coffee, coffee.
Writing, it's high test coffee black…performing, it's anything I can get my hands on that's free and cold.
Makers Mark or Jack Daniels Whiskey.

It's country music and I do my part by having a cold beer.
If there was a Mount Rushmore of country artists, who'd be on it?
Johnny Cash, Eddy Arnold, Waylon Jennings, Tammy Wynette, Hank Williams, Sr.
Me, Bob, Craig and Jeff
Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Sr. They are the four great presidents.
Well, since we have a TV show now and everybody expects the Hitmen to get the big head anyway…
What's your favorite guilty pleasure song (song you love but are ashamed to admit it)?
One I wrote: “Wink” (recorded by Neal McCoy)
“One Bad Apple” (recorded by The Osmonds)

“Still the One” haha (recorded by Shania Twain)
Wow! That's endless, but I'm an old church camper, so “The Hokey Pokey.” I danced to it about a week ago with my wife and 40 kids.