H.B. Beverly

For the ones amongst you that want to see and hear more, you can go to my main site at "hbbeverly.com" and discover even more info, and listen to six song samples that are different than the ones heard here........................................................ ... And, for the hardcore Parrott Head fans out there, there is a new site called www.meetthephlockers.com/hbbeverly, and I have a site on there as well, with perhaps a couple of songs that are different than the one's here on myspace or at hbbeverly.com, and they're in their entirety ............................................................ ... A good friend I made friends with after moving here to Myrtle a few years ago, is a talented singer/songwriter here on the Grand Strand by the name of Wendell Matthews, and he was kind enough on the recommendation of a mutual friend, to ask me as an unknown harp player, to come by and record a track on his CD, without even knowing what I sounded like! You can order that session, and many more fine songs that he wrote on his website here at www.myspace.com/wendellmatthews ........................................................ For those of you who are looking for a seriously well crafted, and set up electric guitar, another good friend I have here on myspace handles those duties in the form of one awesomely talented Rick Mariner. He calls his line of guitars Haywire, and his site can be found at the top of my friends list. Trust me, his craftsmanship is breath taking .......................................... ................ In the jukebox department above, "BMW Girls" is a song I wrote with Webb Wilder in mind back in 1988, but I think it would've made a great Jerry Lee Lewis cut too, so that's what I'm channeling when you listen to it .................................................. "Big Fish (In A Little Pond)" came from conversations I had with old friend David Loving, while flirting with the Nashville scene back in the early 90s. After seeing which way the wind was blowing in Guitar Town, I realized that I probably would be better off as a big fish in a little pond in the Tri-Cities area, rather than be a little fish in a really big pond in Nashville............................................... "Hillbilly" is another one of those autobiographical ditties that is first about my Dad, then my first ex-wife, and finally a word of advice to my fellow listeners. In each of these two songs I was feeling the pressure from performing live on PBS-TV for the first time with "Hillbilly", and on WETS-FM radio in Johnson City, TN. with "Big Fish", and I forgot one line in each song. So if you hear something that doesn't quite make sense, like a repeat of a phrase, that's where I blew it, Doh! But, I thought these two live performances to be historically significant because the band played so solid behind me, the nervous Nelly. All members of those two seperate bands "The Road Scholars", and "3/4 Time" are in my photos section that can be found on this site. And, I might add that those two performances were ten years apart. Those guys were the best band I ever had .................................................... "Beautiful Day" is a flirty come-on song that I wrote back in 2001, after the CD came out, and it was meant to show the direction in which my writing was going to go in. Sunny, and upbeat, as opposed to dark and depressing. It was recorded in a little studio in Elizabethton, TN., called Note-orious Studios, owned and operated by Tony Rominger, approximately 6 years ago, with members of my own band at that point, called "3/4 Time". On drums was my old friend David Williams, and on Bass guitar was the amazingly solid and agile Bob Sarver, who I miss like a right arm.... Hey, call me Bob! Background vocals were by Amy Vance, Bob, and David. Tony Rominger played harp, and recorded the whole glorious mess. This song has now been re-recorded for the upcomng CD in summer of 2008 ............................... Do you or your friends have plans for corporate or private functions? I'll travel anywhere, if scheduling allows, and the money is right for the distance, fuel, and crashing arrangements. Leave me a message with all the pertinent details of time and location, either here on myspace, or at "[email protected]" and I'll get back to you ASAP ............................................................ .............. On July 1, of 2007 I finally realized one of four musical dreams that I had for myself, in getting the legendary "FINGERS" TAYLOR from JIMMY BUFFETT'S CORAL REEFER BAND to sit in, and play the beautiful "Coast Of Marseille" with me at a show he was doing with KD Moore. Pictures of that collaboration can also be found on this site ........................................................... Hope to see you all somewhere soon. Be sure to come up and say Hello, OK? .... Love, Peace, and Chicken Grease, "HB"