Tishomingo Blues (novel)

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.

[3] The title comes from the famous Spencer Williams song "Tishomingo Blues" (1917).

Whatever about its title the novel’s epigraph is taken from the second verse of the song "Tishamingo Blues" (1926) by American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, Joshua Barnes Howell, better known as Peg Leg Howell.

Characters in the book discuss the music and lives of many blues artists, including Robert Johnson, B.B.

King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Charley Patton, Son House, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Shemekia Copeland, Muddy Waters and the fictional Marvin Pontiac.