'Hair shirt' is one of those things folks do for pennance. If you've ever sat on a horsehair chair or sofa,you might have an idea what it would feel like to wear something that raspy and annoying next to your skin.

A mudcat is a kind of Mississippi River catfish, and was part of Max's original blues site (like the [Mississippi] deltablues. address that you see sometimes when you load this site. There's a thread on it somewhere.

Blessings,
Barbara