barrelhouse
Americannoun
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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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Ms. Ferry said that since Jack Daniel’s built a barrelhouse next to her house in December, whiskey fungus had been accumulating on the roof of her home and car and on trees on her property.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2023
Taking its title from a saying attributed to Martin Luther, the concerto deconstructs and reassembles impulses from funk, gospel and barrelhouse.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 27, 2021
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
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
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