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|f_annotation='''BOSTONY.''' American, Reel (2/4 time). "Bostony" was a tune in the repertoire of blind northeast Kentucky/W.Va. fiddler [[biography:Ed Haley]], as remembered by people around Portsmouth, Ohio, where the Northern and Southern fiddle traditions tended to mix (Mark Willson & Guthrie Meade, 1976). Fiddler Morris Allen (of South Shore, Kentucky) also remembered it as a part of Haley's repertoire. Mark Wilson also believes the title to be a corruption of '''Bostonia''', the name of a magnificent steamboat that plied the Ohio River ports of Cincinnati, Portsmouth, Maysville, Big Sandy and Huntington in the 1870's, usually with a tiny orchestra aboard. John Hartford (1996) notes that there were not one, but six steamboats at various times on the Ohio by the name of 'Bostonia'. | |||
---- | |f_source_for_notated_version="From Morris Allen, from Ed Haley, on a John Harrod tape" [John Hartford/Devil's Box]. | ||
|f_printed_sources=Stephen F. Davis ('''The Devil's Box'''), vol. 31, No. 2, Summer 1997; p. 13. | |||
---- | |f_recorded_sources=Rounder 0380, Roger Cooper (Lewis County, KY) - "Going Back to Old Kentucky" (1996. Learned from his friend Morris Allen). Rounder CD0392, John Hartford - "Wild Hog in the Red Brush and a Bunch of Others You Might Not Have Heard" (1996. Learned from the playing of Morris Allen). Rounder Heritage Series 1166-11592-2, Roger Cooper (et al) - "The Art of Traditional Fiddle" (2001). | ||
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BOSTONY. American, Reel (2/4 time). "Bostony" was a tune in the repertoire of blind northeast Kentucky/W.Va. fiddler biography:Ed Haley, as remembered by people around Portsmouth, Ohio, where the Northern and Southern fiddle traditions tended to mix (Mark Willson & Guthrie Meade, 1976). Fiddler Morris Allen (of South Shore, Kentucky) also remembered it as a part of Haley's repertoire. Mark Wilson also believes the title to be a corruption of Bostonia, the name of a magnificent steamboat that plied the Ohio River ports of Cincinnati, Portsmouth, Maysville, Big Sandy and Huntington in the 1870's, usually with a tiny orchestra aboard. John Hartford (1996) notes that there were not one, but six steamboats at various times on the Ohio by the name of 'Bostonia'.
