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'''BOSTONY.''' Old-Time, Breakdown. 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 being in 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 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. | '''BOSTONY.''' Old-Time, Breakdown. 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 being in 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 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. | ||
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BOSTONY. Old-Time, Breakdown. 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 being in 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 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.