Rednex – Poor Boy Pour
From Moonshine to Dancefloor – A 100-Year-Old Drinking Song Reborn
Rednex — the band behind Cotton Eye Joe — returns with Poor Boy Pour, a high-energy drinking anthem rooted in a century-old folk tune and soaked in festival madness.
The song’s origins trace back to Charlie Poole, an early country music outlaw whose life was as wild as his music: he lost part of his hand in a baseball accident, played banjo with three fingers, and bought his first instrument with money earned from bootlegging. His 1920s classic Take a Drink on Me — the basis for Poor Boy Pour — was a massive hit in its time.
Now, Rednex has teamed up with Ulm-based producer Chris Diver and Pat Reiniz, the original producer of Cotton Eye Joe, to give the song new life. The result is a stomping, fiddle-fueled banger that turns vintage Americana into a 2020s dancefloor weapon.
And it doesn’t stop with the music. Rednex has launched a “Summer Pour” campaign across Europe — dousing festival crowds, wedding guests, and backyard partygoers with buckets of water mid-song. The footage? Unfiltered, unplanned, and absolutely drenched — soon to be part of a chaotic new video.
It might be the oldest cover on the dancefloor, but between bootlegging legends and soaked summer partiers, Poor Boy Pour is making a splash wherever it goes.
CREDITS
Title: Poor Boy Pour
Artist: Rednex
Featuring artists: Charlie Poole, Chris Diver
Produced by: Chris Diver & Pat Reiniz
Executive producer: Pat Reiniz
Associate producer: Stefan Sörin
Lead vocals: East Side Dave Kline
Additional teaser vocals:
Jiggie McClagganahan, Zoe Duskin, Pickles, Boneduster Crock, Georg Herlitz, Jenny Ericsson, Nils Beck, Sandra Magnusson, Isabelle Sigfridson, Vic McCarty, Erik Gossas
Mastered by: Jaakko Viitalähde, Virtalähde Mastering