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Big Beaver
Posted: 20 Oct 2000 8:03 pm
by Frank Venters
I have a Stoneway 45 RPM stereo/mono record, dated 1976 titled "Big Beaver" a Western Swing song by Dick Allen and The River Road Boys. Anyone ever hear of them and who may have played steel on it.With the deepness of the steel guitar sound I beleive he was using a Bb6th tuning.
Posted: 20 Oct 2000 9:08 pm
by Blane Sanders
Frank, I'm not familiar with the version of "Big Beaver" that you have , but your post prompted me to dig out an old Ernest Tubb Album titled "Hittin The Road", it's a live Album, and has a knock out version of "Big Beaver" featuring, Bud Charlton & Leon Rhodes. (DECCA DL 74681). I don't know what year it was recorded, but it was probably mid 60's.
Posted: 21 Oct 2000 6:46 am
by Janice Brooks
Big Beaver is one of the old Bob Wills classic instramentals.
I like Hank Thompsons version.
Posted: 21 Oct 2000 9:17 am
by Joan Cox
The version of "Big Beaver" by the Time Jumpers is pretty good too.
Joan
Posted: 21 Oct 2000 9:40 am
by Earnest Bovine
The beaver is an interesting rodent.
Posted: 21 Oct 2000 1:09 pm
by Mitch Drumm
I have the LP from which the single was taken. according to the liner notes, steel is by herby remington, with bob white and clyde brewer on twin fiddles.
Posted: 21 Oct 2000 11:51 pm
by Smiley Roberts
Hank Thompson album,"North Of The Rio Grande"
(Capitol Records # T618) circa:late '50's.
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Posted: 22 Oct 2000 7:39 pm
by Tim Rowley
Nobody ever played a better-sounding trumpet jazz chorus than Tubby Lewis did on Bob Wills' famous big-band recording of "Big Beaver". Bob Wills always said he learned the basic tune from an old black man he worked with in the West Texas cotton fields during his boyhood. I love the tune. If I ever get to working steady with a western swing outfit, I'm gonna insist that they play "Big Beaver" at least twice a week!
Tim R.