'''BOSS CLOG HORNPIPE, THE'''. AKA and see "[[Dixon's Slide]]." American, Hornpipe. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. The tune appears under the title "Dixon's Slide" in Ira Ford's '''Traditional Music in America''' (1940). Ford collected primarily in Missouri and the Mid-West, however, specifics on where he obtained this tune are unknown.
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''Source for notated version'': included in a section of tunes in '''Ryan's Mammoth''' from the playing of Jimmy Norton, the "Boss Jig Player"-Norton was presumably a band-leader or principal instrumentalist in the eastern Massachusetts area in the mid-1900's.
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''Printed source:'' Howe ('''1000 Jigs and Reels'''), c. 1867; p. 50.