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barrelhouse
[ bar-uhl-hous ]
noun
- 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.
- a vigorous style of jazz originating in the barrelhouses of New Orleans in the early part of the 20th century.
barrelhouse
/ ˈæəˌʊ /
noun
- a cheap and disreputable drinking establishment
- a vigorous and unpolished style of jazz for piano, originating in the barrelhouses of New Orleans
- ( as modifier )
barrelhouse blues
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of barrelhouse1
Example Sentences
The “whiskey fungus” has been been a nuisance around liquor facilities for centuries, but the size and scope of the new barrelhouse complexes means much more ethanol is being released in a concentrated area.
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.
“We’re always busy, baby, not this time,” Olsen sings over rippling barrelhouse piano in “Big Time,” “Lay in the tall grass, talking with your eyes.”
Across the record, Batiste also raps, stomps like a preacher and wails like a barrelhouse bluesman.
Taking its title from a saying attributed to Martin Luther, the concerto deconstructs and reassembles impulses from funk, gospel and barrelhouse.
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