Music video by Toby Keith performing Beer For My Horses. YouTube view counts pre-VEVO: 1,902,818. (C) 2002 DreamWorks Records Nashville. Beer for My Horses is the title of a song recorded by American country music artists Toby Keith and Willie Nelson -- released in April 2003 as the fourth and final single from Keith's album Unleashed . The song spent six weeks at number one on the U.S. Billboard Country Songs charts in 2003 and peaked at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. ACM 2003 Video of the Year ... The Beer for My Horses 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.