This week winner, by overwhelming majority, is Boston Boy, which was submitted as an Old Time/Bluegrass tune. Here's a link to a page on abcnotation.com, with links to several submissions of Boston Boy. Here's a link to CoMando's Tune of the Week from a decade ago, that has a link to this tune (abc) and some lengthy discussion of the tune (and other tunes!) Apparently, there is a tune Boston Boy, and another Boston Boys! Here's a link to the Fiddler's Companion, with abc and notes on both tunes.
Here is a rushed attempt at this old time tune forever remembered in the line from Monroe's 'Uncle Pen'.
wow! Thanks for this excellent demonstration, Sasquatch, up the neck and everything.
that right there...that's how it's played.
Ok, here is my slow motion attempt.
Nice work manfred verry clean and well executed Sasquatch this song is right up ure Alley I enjoyed the playing up the neck Seeing how I'm from Massachusetts this is one of the first Monroe tunes I learned from joe Carr's Play like a legend Anyway here is my go
Nice work everybody. Love that Monroe influence Sasquatch.
Great work, Obiwan. Your Carr sounds definitely different from mine. Sgarrity, this is probably the best piece I have heard from you here! And you have played many good ones. Just my humble opinion.
Yep, Shaun, that sounds great. Love the pulse/shuffle you put into it. New recording setup? We can really hear the tone better and I like it!
You bluegrass and Monroe boys really know how to play this. I love the energy and rhythm you put into it. I read somewhere that the tune is the same as Take Me Back to Georgia which is a tune in the Fiddler's Fakebook so I looked that one up and had some fun with it. The chord progression is the same as Boston Boy but the similarity seems to stop about there as far as I can hear it. I didn't spend too much time on it so my timing gets off a bit but thought you might like to hear the Fiddler's Fakebook version.
That sounds good, wooden fingers. I like this version. I am neither a Monroe nor a Bluegrass boy , by the way. That's clearly the domain of all the others who have posted this tune here.
Manfred, you might not have quite hit the speeds that Tim, Obi, and Shaun hit but you definitely had the bluegrass rhythm and sound so I count you as a bluegrass boy . Mine sounds more like skipping through the park on a sunny day .
Thanks for the kind words everybody. Recording set up is my iPad camera and mic straight into iMovie. However, I am recording myself in the bathroom! LOL
