Beaver Nelson is an Austin, Texas-based singer-songwriter. His most recent release is 2007's, Exciting Opportunity. While Beaver has long drawn critical acclaim from the music press and such publications as Texas Monthly magazine, he enjoys the support of a passionate fan base in Japan. Early career Nelson got his start in Houston, Texas playing various venues and releasing two albums when he was still in high school. Beaver moved from Houston to Austin in 1991 and began playing the then-thriving live music scene at such places as the Chicago House, Cactus Cafe and the Hole in the Wall. Though Nelson is a Texas based singer/songwriter, he has mixed feelings about what that means these days. He told Rolling Stone Magazine in 2002, "I have a real love/hate thing going with the Texas songwriter thing. There used to be some really great songwriters that were coming out of Texas and had been for years. But these people just

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