Bostony
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Bostony" is an American reel in 2/4 time and G Major. The parts are played AA’BB’.<br> "Bostony" was a tune in the repertoire of blind northeast Kentucky/W.Va.<br> fiddler Ed Haley, as remembered by people around Portsmouth, Ohio, where the<br> Northern and Southern fiddle traditions tended to mix (Mark Willson &<br> Guthrie Meade, 1976). Fiddler Morris Allen (of South Shore, Kentucky) also<br> remembered it as a part of Haley's repertoire.<br> Mark Wilson also believes the title to be a corruption of Bostonia, the<br> name of a magnificent steamboat that plied the Ohio River ports of<br> Cincinnati, Portsmouth, Maysville, Big Sandy and Huntington in the 1870's,<br> usually with a tiny orchestra aboard.<br> John Hartford (1996) notes that there were not one, but six steamboats at various times<br> on the Ohio by the name of 'Bostonia'.<br> It was printed in Stephen F. Davis' The Devil's Box, vol. 31, No. 2, Summer 1997.<br> It was recorded by Roger Cooper on Going Back to Old Kentucky (1996),<br> John Hartford on Wild Hog in the Red Brush and a Bunch of Others You Might Not Have Heard<br> (1996) and<br> Roger Cooper (et al) on The Art of Traditional Fiddle (2001).<br>
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