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X:1 T:Bostony M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Reel N:Transcribed by John Hartford "from Morris Allen, from Ed N:Haley of a John Harrod tape." B:Stephen F. Davis - The Devil's Box, vol. 31, No. 2, Summer 1997, p. 13. Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G gb af|gf g2|eg g>a|ba- a2|c'2 e2|f/e/f/g/ f2|df/e/ d/c/B/A/|G>G G2|| DG B>d|ed d2|cE F>F|AG G/F/E|DG B>d|ed dB|cE FD|G2||



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'.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - "From Morris Allen, from Ed Haley, on a John Harrod tape" [John Hartford/Devil's Box].

Printed sources : - Stephen F. Davis (The Devil's Box), vol. 31, No. 2, Summer 1997; p. 13.

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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