Beer for My Horses

Infobox Single
Name = Beer for My Horses


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Artist = Toby Keith featuring Willie Nelson
from Album = Unleashed
Released = 2003
Format = CD single
Genre = Country
Length = 3:23
Label = DreamWorks Records
Writer = Scotty Emerick, Toby Keith
Producer = James Stroud, Toby Keith
Certification =
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Toby Keith
Type = single
Last single = "Rock You Baby"
(2003)
This single = "Beer for My Horses"
(2003)
Next single = "I Love This Bar"
(2003) Extra chronology 2
Artist = Willie Nelson
Type = single
Last single = "Mendocino County Line"
(with Lee Ann Womack)
(2002)
This single = "Beer for My Horses"
(2003)
Next single = "Please Come Home for Christmas"
(2004) "Beer for My Horses" is a number-one single, recorded by American country music artists Toby Keith and Willie Nelson. The song spent six weeks at Number One on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts in 2003 and peaked at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Keith's biggest hit to date. [cite web |url=http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/233783 |title=BMI cheers "Beer for My Horses" with Willie, Toby, and Scotty |accessdate=2007-07-19 |format=html |work=BMI.com] This record has since been tied by his 2005 single, "As Good as I Once Was", which also spent six weeks at Number One. Strangely, the original title of the song was going to be "Beer for My Men (and Whiskey for My Horses)" but Keith pointed out that beer should come after whiskey, making the title "Whiskey for My Men (and Beer for My Horses)". The final title was decided on when producer James Stroud advised that whiskey was too expensive for horses, and they should be the ones to drink beer. [cite web |url=http://www.countrystandardtime.com/news/newsitem.asp?xid=1443|title=Toby Keith stars in "Beer for My Horses" movie|accessdate=2008-07-08 |date=9 |year=2006 |month=September |format=html]

The music video for the song features Keith, Nelson and Corin Nemec, as detectives hunting a murderer.

A film adaption of the song entered production in mid-2008. [cite web |url=http://www.countrystandardtime.com/news/newsitem.asp?xid=1443|title=Toby Keith stars in "Beer for My Horses" movie|accessdate=2008-07-08 |date=9 |year=2006 |month=September |format=html] and was released on August 8, 2008.

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