Big River (Jimmy Nail song) Big River (Jimmy Nail song) "Big River" is a song written and performed by Jimmy Nail and released on the album "Big River". It was released as a single in 1995. In 2011, it was recorded by Joe McElderry for the DVD, "Big River Big Songs: The Tyne". McElderry also performed it for "Sunday for Sammy" in 2012. The big river referred to in the title is the River Tyne that runs through Nail's home town, Newcastle upon Tyne. The song is an elegy to the days when shipbuilding and industry in general were at their height in Newcastle and
Big River (Oregon) Big River (Oregon) The Big River is a tributary of the Coast Fork Willamette River, approximately long, in western Oregon in the United States. It drains an area of the Calapooya Mountains south of Eugene. It rises in northern Douglas County, northwest of Huckleberry Mountain, approximately south-southeast of Cottage Grove at . It flows northwest through Lane County to form the Coast Fork of the Willamette at its confluence with the Little River, about south of Cottage Grove at Flowing northwest from the northern flanks of the Calapooya Mountains in Douglas County, Big River enters Lane County about downstream from