"Tishomingo Blues" is a song by Spencer Williams. Geoff Cole's Hot Five Do What Ory Say - Best of the Brits, Vol. 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. Enjoy! Here is a 1940s Brunswick album re-issue of Tishomingo Blues, recorded in 1928 by Duke Ellington. It became a jazz standard, and continues to be performed and recorded into the 21st century. Tishomingo Blues starring Don Cheadle, Matthew McConaughey. A blues-loving Detroit hustler touring the Southland in a black Jaguar, Taylor's got his own secret agenda re the "Cornbread Cosa Nostra," and he wants Dennis in on the game. "Tishomingo Blues" follows a high diver at the Tishomingo Hotel & Casino in Mississippi who witnesses a Mafia murder and becom But there's a lot more in Robert Taylor's pocket than a photo of his lynched great-grandfather. The title refers to Tishomingo, Mississippi. The tune was first published in 1917. Leonard says that Tishomingo Blues is, of the books he has written, his favorite. The song was first recorded in 1918 by Eddie Nelson on Emerson Records #913.