"Liquor Store Blues" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars for his debut studio album Doo-Wops & Hooligans (2010), featuring vocals by Jamaican artist Damian Marley. It was released as the first promotional single from the record, on September 21, 2010 by Elektra Records in the United States; while in the rest of the world it was liberated by Warner Entertainment Group (WEG). A reggae and dub track, "Liquor Store Blues" was produced by The Smeezingtons (Mars, Phillip Lawrence, Ari Levine) and Dwayne "Supa Dups" Chin-Quee, while the writing was handled by the former three along with Damian Marley and Thomas Pentz, known professionally as Diplo. Musically, "Liquor Store Blues" has been described as borrowing "heavily from roots reggae" and from dub sounds, while lyrical