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“My Name Is Mud” is a song by alternative rock/metal band Primus and is the first single from the 1993 album Pork Soda. The lyrics are written from the point of view of a blue-collar man, Alowishus Devadander Abercrombie, who has murdered his friend after an argument. The song samples the line “Where are you goin’ city boy?“ from the film Deliverance. The track’s title refers to a common derogatory phrase that implies its recipient is “a stupid, twaddling fellow”. When the track was played by the band at Woodstock ‘94, members of the crowd threw mud at them. The band stopped playing and Les Claypool proceeded to make fun of the crowd, before playing the rest of the song. In 2010, Primus released a new version of the track sung entirely in Spanish under the title “Me... Read on...