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"Tishomingo Blues" is a song by Spencer Williams. The tune was first published in 1917. The title refers to Tishomingo, Mississippi. The song was first recorded in 1918 by Eddie Nelson on Emerson Records #913. It became a jazz standard, and continues to be performed and recorded into the 21st century.
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Jan 1, 2002 · 3.71. 9,380 ratings485 reviews. Daredevil Dennis Lenahan has brought his act to the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino in Tunica, Mississippi -- diving off an eighty-foot ladder into nine feet of water for the amusement of gamblers, gangsters, and luscious belles. His riskiest feat, however, was witnessing a Dixie-style mob execution while atop his ...
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Feb 1, 2002 · The story's very ambiguity steadily feeds its mysteriousness and power, and Danielewski's mastery of postmodernist and cinema-derived rhetoric up the ante continuously, and stunningly. One of the most impressive excursions into the supernatural in many a year. Share your opinion of this book. Leonard’s 37th backs smooth and easy into Tunica ...
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Tishomingo Blues is a 2002 novel by Elmore Leonard, set in Mississippi, about two fledgling allies, the local Dixie Mafia, and a high-stakes Civil War re-enactment. Leonard says that Tishomingo Blues is, of the books he has written, his favorite.
Like Robert Johnson, who supposedly sold his soul to the Devil at the famous “crossroads” 37 miles from Tunica in return for mastery of Blues music, Dennis has found himself caught in a moral dilemma with three immediate choices— (1) to become a rich but morally corrupt drug money launderer, (2) to tell the police and be killed by the ...
Jul 8, 2005 · Tishomingo Blues starring Don Cheadle, Matthew McConaughey. "Tishomingo Blues" follows a high diver at the Tishomingo Hotel & Casino in Mississippi who witnesses a Mafia murder and becom.
Jan 23, 2011 · surprise, to delight, to entrance. TISHOMINGO BLUES demonstrates. that Leonard's canny eye for observation and analysis of the human. character, and human characters, remains as sharp as ever. Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub on January 23, 2011. Tishomingo Blues. by Elmore Leonard. Publication Date: January 1, 2003.
