Tishomingo Blues

Girls love Dennis Lenahan. He's cool and he's a daredevil: dives from the top of an 80-foot ladder into a nine-foot tank. Dennis is performing in Tunica, MS, the casino capital of the South, when he witnesses a murder and the local Dixie mafia warns him, "You talk, you're dead."

Along comes Robert Taylor, a black gangsta with style from Detroit. Robert also has a death-defying act: he's sleeping with his boss's wife. Robert has his own agenda for taking on the Cornbread Cosa Nostra …