# Michael Salomon

Michael Salomon (born in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, United States) is an American music video/film director, who has directed many music videos, including many of Toby Keith's music videos. He directed the video for Metallica's "One", which was nominated for "Best Heavy Metal Video" at the MTV awards, and was declared one of the "Top 75 Videos Of All Time" in Rolling Stone's critics' poll.
He later won numerous awards, including the CMT (Country Music Television) "Director of the Year" awards in 1994, 1995 and 1996, Michael again performed his work, creating award-winning videos for Toby Keith, Trisha Yearwood, Alan Jackson, Lonestar, Brooks & Dunn, over twenty videos for Sawyer Brown and others. His association with Toby earned Salomon the CMT Flameworthy Awards in 2002, including one for "Director of the Year" and awards in 2003 including "Video of the Year."
Most recently, Salomon teamed up again with Toby and directed the 2008 film Beer For My Horses, which starred Toby Keith, with guest stars Rodney Carrington, and Willie Nelson. Salomon had also directed the music video for "Beer for My Horses" in 2003.
Salomon also worked on projects for Garth Brooks, Madonna, Mick Jagger, Janet Jackson, Billy Joel, Whitney Houston, Bon Jovi, Ozzy Osbourne and many others as an editor.
In addition to the list of music videos, Michael has directed and or segment-directed a wide variety of longform home videos, commercials, network specials and syndicated series. He directed the NBC Special, "Garth Brooks: Live From Dublin." The special garnered an Emmy nomination for Salomon.

## Filmography

"Beer for My Horses" (2008)

## Videography
### Videos directed

160 music videos are currently listed here.
| Year | Video | Artist |
| 1987 | "The Weekend" | Steve Wariner |
| 1988 | "Can't Stop Now" | New Grass Revival |
| 1988 | "I Knew Love" | Nanci Griffith |
| 1988 | "I Should Be with You" | Steve Wariner |
| 1988 | "Light Years" | Glen Campbell |
| 1988 | "Let's Get Started If We're Gonna Break My Heart" | The Statler Brothers |
| 1989 | "One" (with Bill Pope) | Metallica |
| 1989 | "Beneath the Texas Moon" | J.C. Crowley |
| 1989 | "Home to Alaska" | Lee Greenwood |
| 1989 | "Callin' Baton Rouge" | New Grass Revival |
| 1990 | "Closer to the Flame" | Dave Edmunds |
| 1990 | "Sixteen Tons" | Eric Burdon |
| 1990 | "Black Coffee" | Lacy J. Dalton |
| 1990 | "Nobody's Talking" (with Jim May) | Exile |
| 1990 | "Is It Love" (with Bud Schaetzle) | Foster & Lloyd |
| 1990 | "Everybody Wants to Be Hank Williams" | Larry Boone |
| 1990 | "Comin' Back For More" | C. W. McCall |
| 1990 | "Rollin' Home" | Pirates of the Mississippi |
| 1990 | "You Don't Miss a Thing" | Eddy Arnold |
| 1991 | "Rockin' Years" | Dolly Parton with Ricky Van Shelton |
| 1991 | "Goin' by the Book" (with Coke Sams) | Johnny Cash |
| 1991 | "Bing Bang Boom" | Highway 101 |
| 1991 | "Shadow of a Doubt" | Earl Thomas Conley |
| 1991 | "If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)" | Joe Diffie |
| 1991 | "The Walk" | Sawyer Brown |
| 1991 | "Picture of You" | Great Plains |
| 1992 | "The Dirt Road" | Sawyer Brown |
| 1992 | "Some Girls Do" | Sawyer Brown |
| 1992 | "If You Can't Find a Reason to Be Happy" | Buck Owens |
| 1992 | "Cafe on the Corner" | Sawyer Brown |
| 1992 | "The Trouble with Diamonds" | Mac McAnally |
| 1992 | "All These Years" | Sawyer Brown |
| 1993 | "Standing Knee Deep in a River (Dying of Thirst)" | Kathy Mattea |
| 1993 | "Cleopatra, Queen of Denial" | Pam Tillis |
| 1993 | "Daddy Laid the Blues on Me" | Bobbie Cryner |
| 1993 | "Thank God for You" | Sawyer Brown |
| 1993 | "The Boys and Me" | Sawyer Brown |
| 1993 | "For Your Love" | Chris LeDoux |
| 1994 | "Outskirts of Town" | Sawyer Brown |
| 1994 | "Hard to Say" | Sawyer Brown |
| 1994 | "Summertime Blues" | Alan Jackson |
| 1994 | "Honky Tonk World" | Chris LeDoux |
| 1994 | "Nothin' but Good" | Dawn Sears |
| 1994 | "Baby Likes to Rock It" | The Tractors |
| 1994 | "Shut Up and Kiss Me" | Mary Chapin Carpenter |
| 1994 | "This Time" | Sawyer Brown |
| 1994 | "Tender When I Want to Be" | Mary Chapin Carpenter |
| 1995 | "I Don't Believe in Goodbye" | Sawyer Brown |
| 1995 | "I Believe" | Blessid Union of Souls |
| 1995 | "House of Cards" | Mary Chapin Carpenter |
| 1995 | "What Do You Want With His Love" | David Ball |
| 1995 | "Where Do I Go from You" | Jon Secada |
| 1995 | "(This Thing Called) Wantin' and Havin' It All" | Sawyer Brown |
| 1995 | "That's as Close as I'll Get to Loving You" | Aaron Tippin |
| 1995 | "The Car" | Jeff Carson |
| 1995 | "'Round Here" | Sawyer Brown |
| 1996 | "Treat Her Right" | Sawyer Brown |
| 1996 | "Meant to Be" | Sammy Kershaw |
| 1996 | "Wild at Heart" | Lari White |
| 1996 | "The Road You Leave Behind" | David Lee Murphy |
| 1996 | "Don Juan d'Bubba" | Hank Williams, Jr. |
| 1996 | "Betty's Got a Bass Boat" | Pam Tillis |
| 1996 | "Five Dollar Fine" | Chris LeDoux |
| 1996 | "All I Do Is Love Her" | James Bonamy |
| 1996 | "Shangri-La" | The Rutles |
| 1996 | "She's Really Something to See" | David Lee Murphy |
| 1996 | "Good as I Was to You" | Lorrie Morgan |
| 1997 | "Feels Like Heaven (With You)" | BeBe & CeCe Winans |
| 1997 | "Six Days on the Road" | Sawyer Brown |
| 1997 | "I Could Love a Man Like That" | Anita Cochran |
| 1997 | "We Were in Love" | Toby Keith |
| 1997 | "This Night Won't Last Forever" | Sawyer Brown with Steve Wariner and Mac McAnally |
| 1997 | "In Another's Eyes" | Garth Brooks with Trisha Yearwood |
| 1997 | "Love of My Life" | Sammy Kershaw |
| 1997 | "Hillbilly Town" | Seminole |
| 1998 | "Dream Walkin'" | Toby Keith |
| 1998 | "Another Side" | Sawyer Brown |
| 1998 | "Holes in the Floor of Heaven" | Steve Wariner |
| 1998 | "Tired" | Toby Keith |
| 1998 | "Getcha Some" | Toby Keith |
| 1998 | "One Day Left to Live" | Sammy Kershaw |
| 1998 | "Tearin' It Up (And Burnin' It Down)" | Garth Brooks |
| 1998 | "It's Your Song" | Garth Brooks |
| 1998 | "Drive Me Wild" | Sawyer Brown |
| 1999 | "Life Is a Highway" | Chris LeDoux |
| 1999 | "When Love Fades" | Toby Keith |
| 1999 | "Until You Loved Me" | The Moffatts |
| 1999 | "Stampede" | Chris LeDoux |
| 1999 | "How Do You Like Me Now?!" | Toby Keith |
| 2000 | "800 Pound Jesus" | Sawyer Brown |
| 2000 | "Almost Doesn't Count" | Mark Wills |
| 2000 | "Silence on the Line" | Chris LeDoux |
| 2000 | "You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This" | Toby Keith |
| 2001 | "I'm Just Talkin' About Tonight" | Toby Keith |
| 2001 | "I'm Already There" | Lonestar |
| 2001 | "I Wanna Talk About Me" | Toby Keith |
| 2002 | "My List" | Toby Keith |
| 2002 | "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)" | Toby Keith |
| 2002 | "I Need a Girlfriend" | Sawyer Brown |
| 2002 | "Who's Your Daddy?" | Toby Keith |
| 2002 | "Chrome" | Trace Adkins |
| 2003 | "Beer for My Horses" | Toby Keith with Willie Nelson |
| 2003 | "Where's Your Mommy?" | Cledus T. Judd |
| 2003 | "I Love This Bar" | Toby Keith |
| 2003 | "I Can't Take You Anywhere" | Scotty Emerick |
| 2003 | "Hot Mama" | Trace Adkins |
| 2003 | "You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl" | Brooks & Dunn |
| 2003 | "American Soldier" | Toby Keith |
| 2004 | "The Coast Is Clear" | Scotty Emerick |
| 2004 | "Whiskey Girl" | Toby Keith |
| 2004 | "Men Don't Change" | Amy Dalley |
| 2004 | "Rough & Ready" | Trace Adkins |
| 2004 | "The Girl's Gone Wild" | Travis Tritt |
| 2004 | "The Watch" | Scotty Emerick |
| 2004 | "You Do Your Thing" | Montgomery Gentry |
| 2004 | "Stays in Mexico" | Toby Keith |
| 2004 | "That's What It's All About" | Brooks & Dunn |
| 2005 | "I Would Cry" | Amy Dalley |
| 2005 | "Songs About Me" | Trace Adkins |
| 2005 | "Honkytonk U" | Toby Keith |
| 2005 | "As Good as I Once Was" | Toby Keith |
| 2005 | "Play Something Country" | Brooks & Dunn |
| 2005 | "Big Blue Note" | Toby Keith |
| 2005 | "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" | Trace Adkins |
| 2006 | "Get Drunk and Be Somebody" | Toby Keith |
| 2006 | "A Little Too Late" | Toby Keith |
| 2006 | "Swing" | Trace Adkins |
| 2006 | "Crash Here Tonight" | Toby Keith |
| 2006 | "Ladies Love Country Boys" | Trace Adkins |
| 2006 | "Hillbilly Deluxe" | Brooks & Dunn |
| 2007 | "High Maintenance Woman" | Toby Keith |
| 2007 | "Thinkin' 'Bout You" | Fred Eaglesmith |
| 2007 | "Love Me If You Can" | Toby Keith |
| 2007 | "I Got My Game On" | Trace Adkins |
| 2007 | "Go Tell It on the Mountain" | Toby Keith with Jewel |
| 2008 | "Things a Mama Don't Know" | Mica Roberts |
| 2008 | "Off the Hillbilly Hook" | Trailer Choir |
| 2008 | "God Love Her" | Toby Keith |
| 2009 | "Marry for Money" | Trace Adkins |
| 2009 | "Sideways" | Dierks Bentley |
| 2009 | "American Ride" | Toby Keith |
| 2009 | "Cryin' for Me (Wayman's Song)" | Toby Keith |
| 2010 | "Daddy Phone" | Marty Raybon |
| 2010 | "I Keep On Loving You" | Reba McEntire |
| 2010 | "Rollin' Through the Sunshine" | Trailer Choir |
| 2010 | "This Ain't No Love Song" | Trace Adkins |
| 2010 | "Trailerhood" | Toby Keith |
| 2010 | "Bullets in the Gun" | Toby Keith |
| 2011 | "Look It Up" | Ashton Shepherd |
| 2011 | "Brown Chicken, Brown Cow" | Trace Adkins |
| 2011 | "Made in America" | Toby Keith |
| 2011 | "Red Solo Cup" | Toby Keith |
| 2012 | "I Like Girls That Drink Beer" | Toby Keith |
| 2012 | "Hope on the Rocks" | Toby Keith |
| 2013 | "Daddy Dance with Me" | Krystal Keith |
| 2013 | "Too Drunk to Karaoke" | Jimmy Buffett with Toby Keith |
| 2014 | "Drunk Americans" | Toby Keith |
| 2017 | "Shitty Golfer" | Toby Keith |