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3.8/5 iTunes - Apple Released April 7, 2003 Initial release 8 August 2008 Budget 24 million USD Music director Jeff Cardoni | 4.8/10 IMDb Format CD single, 7" Length 3:24 Box office 7.587 million USD | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast Toby Keith, Rodney Carrington, Claire Forlani, Willie Nelson, Ted Nugent Similar Movies featuring country music, Kidnapping movies, Comedies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Beer for my horses 2008 trailer
"Beer for My Horses" is a song recorded by American country music artists Toby Keith and Willie Nelson. It was composed by Keith and Scotty Emerick for Keith's seventh studio album, Unleashed. The song was released as the album's fourth and final single on April 7, 2003. The song tells of a group of men who lynch some criminals then celebrate with a round of drinks at a saloon.
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- Beer for my horses 2008 trailer
- Beer for my horses the toilet part
- Music video
- Critical reception
- Chart and sales performance
- Other
- References
"Beer for My Horses" received mixed reviews from music critics. The single reached number twenty-two on the Billboard Hot 100, making it Keith's highest charting song of his career at the time. The song also peaked at number one for six weeks in the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs (one of two songs to stay that long at number one for Toby Keith). Becoming Keith's eleventh number one hit and Nelson's twenty third and his first since "Nothing I Can Do About It Now" in 1989. "Beer for My Horses" was certified platinum once by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
The accompanying music video was directed by Michael Salomon and premiered on April 9, 2003.
"Beer for My Horses" also made Willie Nelson the oldest artist to top the country charts at age 70.
The phrase, "Whiskey for me beer for my horse." is said in the 1975 film 'Bite The Bullet' by Jan Michael Vincent.
Beer for my horses the toilet part
Music video
The music video for the song features Keith, Nelson and Corin Nemec, as detectives hunting a serial killer, played by Gregg Gilmore. The detectives eventually convince Nemec to dress up as a woman to lure the serial killer and they end up capturing him. The video, directed by Michael Salomon, was shot in downtown Los Angeles and at the nearby Golden Oak Ranch, in Newhall, California. It is also the first video in which Keith does not actually sing. On March 4, 2003 the video was nominated for Video of the Year for the Academy of Country Music Awards. It won the award for Video of the Year in May later that year.
Critical reception
"Beer for my Horses" received mixed reviews from music critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic found the song to be "absurdly anthemic." The editors of iTunes found the collaboration of Nelson and Keith to be "good, silly fun."
Chart and sales performance
"Beer for My Horses" entered the Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts dated for the week ending August 3, 2002, spending three weeks on the charts as an album cut and peaking at number 54. It re-entered at number 60 on the chart dated February 1, 2003. On the Billboard Hot 100, it ended up peaking at number 22. Along with "Who's Your Daddy?", it was tied for his highest peaking song on the chart until "Red Solo Cup" beat it out in 2012 by peaking at number 15. The song reached over a million in sales in April 2014. As of January 2017, the song has sold 1,178,000 copies in the United States.
Other
A film adaptation of the song entered production in mid-2008, and was released on August 8, 2008.
The song is available as downloadable content for the game Rock Band.