Big Beaver

Frank Venters · Post by **Frank Venters** » 20 Oct 2000 8:03 pm

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.

Blane Sanders · Post by **Blane Sanders** » 20 Oct 2000 9:08 pm

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.

Janice Brooks · Post by **Janice Brooks** » 21 Oct 2000 6:46 am

Big Beaver is one of the old Bob Wills classic instramentals.

I like Hank Thompsons version.

Joan Cox · Post by **Joan Cox** » 21 Oct 2000 9:17 am

The version of "Big Beaver" by the Time Jumpers is pretty good too.
Joan

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 21 Oct 2000 9:40 am

The beaver is an interesting rodent.

Mitch Drumm · Post by **Mitch Drumm** » 21 Oct 2000 1:09 pm

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.

Smiley Roberts · Post by **Smiley Roberts** » 21 Oct 2000 11:51 pm

Hank Thompson album,"North Of The Rio Grande"
(Capitol Records # T618) circa:late '50's.

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Tim Rowley · Post by **Tim Rowley** » 22 Oct 2000 7:39 pm

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.