Scotty McCreery’s “Can’t Pass The Bar” Is The Country Song We Need

Author Lauren Hoffman

January 12th, 2024 2:09 PM

Scotty McCreery is back at it again with a feel-good country tune and this time, we “Can’t Pass The Bar.”

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McCreery co-wrote his latest release alongside Brent Anderson, Cale Dodds, and Frank Rogers. Fans can hear the new track live when he hits the road. His 2024 Cab In A Solo Tour kicks off later this month.

“I grew up loving ‘90s country music, especially the barn-burning songs. I wanted one of my own. So I got together with some of my buddies and we wrote it,” McCreery said of the song. “Can’t wait to perform this song live on the Cab in a Solo Tour.”

McCreery sings, “When the long week’s paychecks are cashed / Where we gonna spend it, buddy you ain’t gotta ask / When the neon lights are kicking on, all of us are heading / To a home away from home / We don’t look like much but we’re pretty damn smart / For some good ole boys that can’t pass the bar”

On top of expressing his excitement about being invited to become the next member of the Grand Ole Opry, McCreery also shared with us what’s to come in the New Year on Shawn Parr’s Backstage Country when it comes  to touring, new music, and more.

“We’re going to be doing a lot of new music that folks haven’t heard. They’ll be hearing it for the first time on this tour and kind of helping us decide, you know, what’s going to make that final album. You know, we’re going to be going based on reactions: are people up and dancing, or are they sitting down checking their phones? Because that song probably won’t make a record. But, you know, it’s a lot of new music, new stories. And I’m excited. Me and the band have worked up a completely new show and started working on it, I think, in October, so that we’ve been working on it for months now,” McCreery revealed to Shawn Parr.

Listen to Scotty McCreery’s “Can’t Pass The Bar” below.

11 Great Country Songs About Drinking: Tim, Miranda, and More

• 11 – Willie Nelson – “Whiskey River” (1973)

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  This is a true classic. Released in 1973 on Willie's "Shotgun Willie" album, it was one that Nelson did not write but has become one of his signature career songs.

• 10 – Blake Shelton – “The More I Drink” (2007)

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  The video for this song 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.

• 9 – Brad Paisley – “Alcohol” (2005)

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  Brad wrote this song, and it is one of his biggest hits—an interesting song coming from Paisley, who does not and has never drunk alcohol.
• 8 – Lady A – “Bartender” (2014)

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  A catchy song written by all three members of Lady A. The trio debuted the song during the "American Idol" season thirteen finale on May 21, 2014.

• 7 – Eric Church – “Drink In My Hand” (2011)

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  This fun drinking song became Church's first number-one hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Eric co-wrote the song that appeared on his breakthrough "Chief" album.

• 6 – Toby Keith’s “Red Solo Cup” (2011)

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  This song came off Toby's album "Clancy's Tavern" album and is the only song on the album that Keith did not write or co-write. It was ranked by "Insider" as the second worst song of the 2010s decade, and Toby himself called it "the stupidest song I ever heard in my life." Regardless of its reviews, it was a big ol' hit and became a drinking anthem.
• 5 – Little Big Town – “Day Drinking” (2014)

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  This fun song was released as the lead single from LBT's sixth studio album, "Pain Killer." The group debuted the song at the CMT Music Awards on June 4, 2014.

• 4 – Chris Stapleton – “Tennessee Whiskey” (2015)

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  This is the song that made Chris a superstar. Stapleton performed it at the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards as a duet with Justin Timberlake. The performance was described as the best moment of the night. Yeah, it was! But Chris wasn't the first to record it: David Allen Coe and George Jones both didn't versions of the song decades before Chris.

• 3 – Dierks Bentley – “Drunk On A Plane” (2014)

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  Dierks co-wrote this instant classic about a man who is left behind at the altar and takes a trip to Cancún by himself after he is unable to obtain a refund for the airplane tickets he had purchased for a honeymoon. The video for the song won Music Video of the Year at the 2014 CMA Awards.
• 2 – Luke Combs – “Beer Never Broke My Heart” (2019)

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  Maybe the perfect drinking song. It's the song Luke Combs' fans in stadiums wait all night to hear at the end of his shows. In the video, Combs performs in a small dive bar, similar to gigs he played early in his career.

• 1 – Miranda Lambert/Elle King – “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)” (2021)

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  This song went all the way to number one on the country charts and even got a Grammy nomination. It brought Elle King into country music full-time and is just a great drinking song.

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