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barrelhouse

NOUN
  1. a cheap drinking and dancing establishment

How To Use barrelhouse In A Sentence

  • The funky barrelhouse piano that stomps all over ‘Cats vs. Dogs’ fits perfectly with the song's aggressively playful mood.
  • The title track's a barrelhouse rocker, dripping attitude, about how she can use what she's got to get what she wants.
  • Though he received a crash course in the ways of women, more important was his exposure to the blues and boogie woogie music which was popular in the barrelhouses at the time.
  • On album opener ‘Let me Put my Suitcase Down,’ Ethier lays himself down to rest on top of the track's lazy barrelhouse piano.
  • As well as some bluesier tracks - not many of them showcased per se; there's some unreal barrelhouse piano played in one of the churchy scenes that makes me wish I had hands with a foot-long reach.
  • Mercy Dee or Mercy Dee Walton, as I knew him, was a typical Texas-style blues and half-boogie pianist, a la Whistling Alex Moore, the great Dallas pianist who is given credit in Texas blues circles as inventing what became known as the "barrelhouse" where they had barrels of whiskey and beer piano style. From The Daily Growler Wastebasket
  • Hell, I love ‘Drug Squad’ - love the barrelhouse piano and Strummer's near-Dylanesque delivery, because it's one of the only times they sound like they're having fun on Rope.
  • At the bottom of the post, I included a video of his stunning chase from “The Seven Ups”, which is a straight-up, barrelhouse through the streets of upper Manhattan. The Real Deal 2.0—Doin' It!
  • Aubrey ‘Moon’ Mullican encountered Holiday frequently in the honkytonks and barrelhouses around Houston.
  • He rode the rails from the Mississippi Delta to St. Louis, where he played poolrooms, barrelhouses, and parties for food and tips during the 1910s and 1920s.
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