"The More I Drink" is a song written by David Lee Murphy,

Chris DuBois Charles Christopher DuBois is a songwriter and music publisher based out of Nashville, Tennessee. DuBois began his music career as ASCAP Nashville Director of Membership in 1993. He left ASCAP in 1999 to form Sea Gayle Music with business partne ...

, and Dave Turnbull and recorded by American

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singer Blake Shelton. It was released in July 2007 as the second single from Shelton’s album '' Pure BS''.

Critical reception

Ken Tucker, of ''

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'' magazine in his review of the album, called the song "a honky-tonk, piano-laden ball of fun"''

'', May 5, 2007

Music video

The music video was directed by

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and premiered in mid-2007. It begins with many heavily intoxicated bar patrons getting arrested (including Blake) and getting into a fight. Blake starts the song in a police booking room, before the scene cuts to the bar patrons getting rowdy and drunk at a local bar (which prequels to the video's beginning). After many of the patrons flirt with some scantily-clad women trying to impress themselves, a fight breaks out, and many of the patrons are seen getting injured. Blake is seen performing the song both with his band to an audience, and with the patrons as they prepare for their mugshots. It was filmed in Watertown, Tennessee.

Chart performance

This song debuted at number 57 on the

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chart dated July 7, 2007. It spent 27 weeks on that chart, and peaked at number 19 on the chart dated December 15, 2007. After falling to number 20 the next week, the song climbed back to number 19 on the chart dated December 29, 2007. It also peaked at number 2 on the

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chart.

Certifications

References

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