TISHAMINGO LYRICS


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BEGINNINGS at the CROSSROADS~

Ah, yes, the scene in “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”: the
three main characters stop at a crossroads in rural
Mississippi where they see a black man standing with a
guitar. The man asks if they’re headed to Tishomingo, a
place where he heard people can get paid for singing into a
can. They pick him up, and they all go to a radio station
in Tishomingo. There, under the moniker The Soggy Bottom
Boys, they record a song that becomes a huge hit. In
Tishomingo, four drifters became a band.

As it turns out, four guys who now call Athens, GA, home,
thought the name fitting for their own band. They altered
the spelling a little bit and Tishamingo was born. Maybe
they aren’t exactly drifters – more like long-time friends
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