from the band:
The Name: TiSHAMiNGo

Many folks ask us, "How did you get the name Tishamingo? What does it mean?"

We got the name Tishamingo from a scene in the Cohen brothers' film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?". The three "ex-cons" around whom the story centers are driving down a deserted dirt road in rural Mississippi when they come upon a crossroads, where they see a Black man standing with a guitar. They stop to see if needs a ride, and he asks them, "Are you headed to Tishomingo?" They say sure, and he hops in the car. One of the fellas asks their new acquaintance why he's going to Tishomingo. He tells them that he heard that you can get paid for singing into a can. So they go to the radio station in Tishomingo (a real county in Mississippi), dub themselves the Soggy Bottom Boys, and record the song "Man of Constant Sorrow", which later would become a huge hit and end up getting them pardoned for their crimes by the Governor of Mississippi. So, it was in Tishomingo that four drifters became a band. Fitting for the four of us.

We did some research and found out that Tishomingo (after whom the counties in Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Arkansas are named) was a Chickasaw Indian Chief, and the word means "warrior chief." Again, fitting for the four of us.

We altered the spelling to Tishamingo so as to make it a little different. Plus, who's to say which spelling is correct - it's derived from a Chickasaw word, not an English one!
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