# Ponty Bone

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**Harry DePonta "Ponty" Bone** (October 9, 1939 – July 13, 2018)[1] was an American [accordionist](/source/Accordion) who led his 1980s band, the Squeezetones, to international popularity over a twenty-year period.

## History

Originally from [San Antonio, Texas](/source/San_Antonio,_Texas), Bone began studying accordion when he was five years old. Later, he also learned to play trumpet. Ponty attended [Texas Tech](/source/Texas_Tech_University) in [Lubbock](/source/Lubbock,_Texas).[2][3]

Early in his career Bone was a member of the [Joe Ely Band](/source/Joe_Ely). By the mid-1980s, Ponty Bone had formed his own band, Ponty Bone & the Squeezetones. The group's early style ranged through Russian gypsy dances, [reggae](/source/Reggae)-[blues](/source/Blues), [Tex-Mex](/source/Tejano_music) [polkas](/source/Polka) and [Cajun](/source/Cajun) [boogie](/source/Boogie). In 1987, the group made an appearance on the [PBS](/source/Public_Broadcasting_Service) music television program *[Austin City Limits](/source/Austin_City_Limits)*, as part of a "Squeezebox Special" episode, with [Queen Ida](/source/Queen_Ida) and [Santiago Jiménez Jr.](/source/Santiago_Jim%C3%A9nez_Jr.)[4] Longtime Squeezetones bassist Wash Hamilton died in early 2008.

With his band, Ponty has shared the stage with such artists as [The Clash](/source/The_Clash), [Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers](/source/Tom_Petty_%26_the_Heartbreakers), King [Flaco Jiménez](/source/Flaco_Jim%C3%A9nez), [Linda Ronstadt](/source/Linda_Ronstadt) and [Ronnie Lane](/source/Ronnie_Lane).

Bone's 2001 album *Fantasize* (on the Loud House label) has been described as drawing from [Tex-Mex](/source/Tejano_music), rock, blues, R&B, [zydeco](/source/Zydeco), and [Caribbean music](/source/Caribbean_music) to create a whole new style.[5]

In January 2012, Bone was a featured performer on [Larry Monroe's](/source/Larry_Monroe_(radio_personality)) [Texas Radio Live](https://avebonar.com/its-a-new-year-2/) show broadcast on [KDRP](/source/KDRP-LP) from Guero's Taco Bar on South Congress Street.

## Death

Bone died of [progressive supranuclear palsy](/source/Progressive_supranuclear_palsy) on 13 July 2018. He was 78.[6]

## References

1. ["Ponty Bone, masterful Texas accordion player, dies at 78 - Austin Music Source"](http://music.blog.austin360.com/2018/07/13/ponty-bone-masterful-texas-accordion-player-dies-at-78/). *Music.blog.austin360.com*. Retrieved 14 July 2018.

1. Ruhlmann, William. ["Ponty Bone Biography"](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ponty-bone-mn0000298178/biography). *[AllMusic](/source/AllMusic)*. Retrieved 9 November 2014.

1. University, Texas Tech (1960). "La Ventana". Vol. 35. [hdl:2346/48700](https://hdl.handle.net/2346/48700)

1. [Squeezebox Special with Queen Ida, Santiago Jimenez, Jr. and Ponty Bone](https://web.archive.org/web/20011201134553/http://www.pbs.org/klru/austin/artists/program171.html), *Austin City Limits*, 1987

1. ["Fantasize - Ponty Bone - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic"](https://www.allmusic.com/album/fantasize-mw0000657085). *[AllMusic](/source/AllMusic)*. Retrieved 14 July 2018.

1. ["Ponty Bone, masterful Texas accordion player, dies at 78 - Austin Music Source"](http://music.blog.mystatesman.com/2018/07/13/ponty-bone-masterful-texas-accordion-player-dies-at-78/). *Music.blog.mystatesman.com*. Retrieved 14 July 2018.

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