gutbucket
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gutbucket
Example Sentences
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Then, in the mid-1950s, a few promoters began bringing some of those very same hitmakers on tours through the region, so the locals got to witness genuine gutbucket R&B stars live and in person.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
People have, since the 1980s, enjoyed making up daft words with "bucket" at the end: fussbucket, gutbucket and so on.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2017
His music rang out loud and clear with the gutbucket sound of guitars and pedal steel forged in the rowdy dance halls and rough bars of Bakersfield.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2016
When the pianist Otis Spann left Waters’s band the next year, Mr. Perkins, whose lean gutbucket style contrasted with Spann’s more florid playing, was recruited to replace him.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2011
He might not have a gutbucket cry or a round-the-corner-and-back-again bend, but he couldn’t let go of the blues any more than he could let go of Cool Papa.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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