Primus - Wynona's Big Brown Beaver [Single]

"Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" is the first single off Primus's 1995 album Tales From the Punchbowl.


The song epitomizes Primus's musical eccentricities, whereby the group's signature funk metal stylings are comically inflected with a sound vaguely reminiscent of bluegrass and southern rock. During the song's guitar solos, Larry LaLonde's playing shifts from almost "noise" guitar in the first solo to a somewhat country-sounding technique and banjo-style finger-picking on the second (inspired by Jerry Garcia). The song's lyrics constitute an absurd, rambling tale about a woman named Wynona and her "beaver." They combine an on-the-surface crude sexual double entendre in "beaver" with the more purely nonsensical silliness typical of the band (e.g., strange references to baboons, Taco Bell, carnies, and porcupines).

01. Wynona's Big Brown Beaver
02. Hello Skinny + Constantinople (The Residents)
03. Have A Cigar (Pink Floyd)

Primus - Wynona's Big Brown Beaver [Single]