| I Love This Bar | |
| Cover: | Toby Keith - I Love This Bar.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Toby Keith |
| Album: | Shock'n Y'all |
| B-Side: | "I Love This Bar" [1] |
| Released: | August 2003 |
| Recorded: | 2003 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: |
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| Label: | DreamWorks Nashville |
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| Prev Title: | Beer for My Horses |
| Prev Year: | 2003 |
| Next Title: | American Soldier |
| Next Year: | 2003 |
"I Love This Bar" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Toby Keith. It was released in August 2003 as the first single from his 2003 album Shock'n Y'all. The song reached number one on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, keeping the top spot for five weeks. Keith wrote this song with Scotty Emerick.
The song's title inspired a chain of restaurants owned by Keith named Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill.
The narrator describes his favorite bar and the people who frequent it.
Ray Waddell, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, calling it a "beer-joint staple for years to come.""[2]
In 2024, Rolling Stone ranked the song at #98 on its 200 Greatest Country Songs of All Time ranking.[3]
The video for this song was filmed at a bar in Chatsworth, California called The Cowboy Palace Saloon. It was directed by Michael Salomon, and premiered on CMT on August 21, 2003.
"I Love This Bar" debuted at number 30 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of August 30, 2003. The song has sold 1,033,000 copies in the U.S. as of April 2014.[4]
In 2006, this song was covered by Sammy Hagar for his album Livin' It Up!.
On his 2004 album Bipolar and Proud, country music parodist Cledus T. Judd recorded a parody titled "I Love NASCAR". This parody peaked at number 48 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. Although the song featured a guest vocal from Keith, he did not receive chart credit for it.[7]