Pour Me (Trick Pony song)

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"Pour Me"
TP - Pour Me single cover.jpg
Single by Trick Pony
from the album Trick Pony
B-side "If You Think You've Got Trouble"
ReleasedDecember 4, 2000 (2000-12-04) [1] [2]
Genre Country
Length2:47
Label Warner Bros. Nashville
Songwriter(s)
  • Rory Waters Beighley
  • Sammy Harp Wedlock
  • Keith Burns
  • Ira Dean
  • Heidi Newfield
Producer(s) Chuck Howard
Trick Pony singles chronology
"Pour Me"
(2000)
"On a Night Like This"
(2001)

"Pour Me" is the debut single by American country music group Trick Pony. The single was written by the members along with Rory Waters Beighley and Sammy Harp Wedlock, and was produced by Chuck Howard. [3] It was released on December 4, 2000, as the lead single from the group's eponymous debut album by Warner Bros. Nashville. It describes a protagonist reaching "rock bottom" and telling the bartender to pour them another drink. A CD single would be released later that month.

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It was a success, although some radio stations were hesitant to play the single. It peaked at number 12 on the US Hot Country Songs chart and was a minor hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 71.

Track listing

CD and cassette single
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Pour Me" (album version)
  • Heidi Newfield
  • Keith Burns
  • Ira Dean
  • Rory Waters Beighley
  • Sammy Harp Wedlock
  • Chuck Howard
2:47
2."If You Think You've Got Trouble" (album version)
  • Dean
  • Burns
  • Howard
3:09

Music video

Trick Pony's first music video was directed by Peter Zavadil. The hard-to-find video features the group in a bar and performing. It premiered to CMT on October 8, 2000. [4]

Charts

"Pour Me" debuted at number 74 on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart on October 21, 2000. It rose to number 67 the following week. By the end of 2000, the song had risen to a position of number 37. It peaked at number 12 on the chart on March 31, 2001 and spent 28 weeks in total.

Charts

Chart (2000–2001)Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 [5] 71
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [6] 12
US Radio Songs ( Billboard ) [7] 74

Year-end charts

Chart (2001)Position
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [8] 56

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