Eddy Who?
Eddy Boston was not born with a guitar in his hands, nor with a song on his lips. As far as he knows, he was not born under a full moon. The nurses did not gather round and gaze in wide wonder. There were no witch-doctors, no soothsayers predicting great things. The earth did not stand still. He learned to walk well before he learned to play guitar. He learned to talk well before he learned to sing.
As the fifth of seven children born to an artist father and a novelist mother, Eddy Boston lived a creative, if uneventful, childhood. It was not until age 17, when he visited his brother at college, that he heard someone playing Led Zeppelin's Tangerine on guitar and thought, "Hey, I could do that!" So he did. The first chance he got, he bought a cheap used Epiphone electric guitar. He locked himself in his bedroom, and his parents have claimed they didn't see him for an entire summer. When he came out, he could play Tangerine, as well as a few other Zeppelin songs. That was the beginning. He has been playing guitar and writing songs ever since.
The transition to acoustic fingerstyle was just as surreptitious. The yard-sale discovery of Happy Traum's book, Fingerpicking Styles for Guitar, changed his approach to music and composition. Here was something old, but unlike anything he had ever heard or played. Something more basic, more real, than the English blues-rock he had been learning. It was also another challenge. Fingerpicking was hard. Using six strings to replicate the sound of an 88-key piano was hard. But the rewards were tangible. This music was fun -- fun to listen to, but also fun to play. These challenges led him to a style that was at once brand new and as old as the blues.
By taking the traditional ways of playing country blues and applying his unique creative lyrics and catchy melodies, he has created what can only be called Eddy Boston music.