A classic of the psycho hillbilly alternative prog funk genre, "My Name Is Mud" finds Primus frontman Les Claypool in character as Mud, a deranged fellow who kills a guy by beating him with a baseball bat. Claypool says the guys in the song are tweekers (addicted to meth), and when they get in a fight over something stupid, one of them kills the other. The 1986 movie River's Edge was an influence.
The line, "Where you goin' city boy?," which shows up at the 3:35 mark, comes from the 1972 movie Deliverance, which is filled with terrifying hillbillies. In the scene, two guys from Atlanta are out in the sticks looking for a river so they can canoe. They get lost and encounter a local who delivers that line.
This was the first single from the third Primus album, Pork Soda. The band didn't fit any specific genre, but that was an asset in 1993, when hip-hop, grunge and metal were colliding. The album sold over a million copies and rose to #7 in the US; Primus got the gig headlining Lollapalooza, a celebration of the strange. "My Name Is Mud" became one of their most popular songs, and a sturdy staple of their setlists.
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