barrelhouse
Americannoun
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barrelhouses
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a cheap saloon, especially one in New Orleans in the early part of the 20th century: so called from the racks of liquor barrels originally placed along the walls.
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a vigorous style of jazz originating in the barrelhouses of New Orleans in the early part of the 20th century.
noun
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a cheap and disreputable drinking establishment
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a vigorous and unpolished style of jazz for piano, originating in the barrelhouses of New Orleans
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( as modifier )
barrelhouse blues
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Williams composed old-timey piano-driven incidental music that tapped into barrelhouse blues and New Orleans jug-band sounds of the early 1900s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2018
He plays me the first few bars of something caught between ragtime and barrelhouse, full of stride piano left-hand chords, his long fingers flicking this way and that.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 30, 2018
Memphis had heard five decades of the blues: country sounds from the Delta, barrelhouse boogie-woogie, jumps and shuffles and gospel shouts.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2015
Otis launched his professional music career as an 18-year-old drummer for bawdy barrelhouse pianist Count Otis Matthews, although he had never played the drums until then.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2012
A barrelhouse blues was being shouted over the stamping of feet on a wooden floor.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Many of the new barrelhouses are being built with industrial revenue bonds exempting them from property taxes for years or decades.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
The distilleries where the liquor is manufactured and barrelhouses where it is aged have complemented the rural character of their neighborhoods, while providing jobs and the pride of a successful homegrown industry.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
Ms. Long said her corner of Lincoln County “is going to be black as coal” unless Jack Daniel’s installs air filters in the barrelhouses, one of which sits about 250 yards from her property.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
Mr Holleman said he anticipates asking the court to order Brown-Forman to stop using six recently-built warehouses, which are commonly known as barrelhouses, that are also near Mrs Long's property.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2023
He was, in the words of the French critic Jacques Périn, "a robust, straightforward musician, a disciple of all the solid pianists schooled in the rough training-grounds of the barrelhouses".
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2011
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