Gutbucket

Word GUTBUCKET
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What do we mean by gutbucket?

An early type of jazz characterized by a strong beat and rollicking delivery, similar to barrelhouse. noun

A homemade bass instrument. noun

A washtub bass noun

A stringed instrument (chordophone), used in American folk music, that uses a metal washtub as resonator.

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The word "gutbucket" in example sentences

Lesson completed, he'd begin butchering the deer by slicing out the entrails, along with the heart, liver, kidneys, and other organs, letting them all drop into a 25-gallon plastic "gutbucket" that he'd later haul off on his four-wheeler to a distant fenceline — a gift to the local coyotes. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I'll even let you know that I'm (unintelligible) NORRIS: Since you hail from Chicago, it's not surprising that your list includes a blues artist, but not the kind of gutbucket blues artists that you might traditionally think about. ❋ Unknown (2005)

A gutbucket version of country bluesman Sleepy John Estes's "Floating Bridge" kicks off the proceedings, followed by a reverb-heavy take of Chicago harp player Junior Wells's "Little by Little." ❋ Post (2011)

And despite their small output and my not loving their second album though "Western Eyes" remains an all-time favorite, thanks to Beth's alternating between scornful vengeance and beautifully gutbucket emoting Portishead keep selectively making good music. ❋ Michael Vazquez (2011)

Recorded in a small studio in a rundown section of Los Angeles, the music is lean and gutbucket, much as it was some 30 years ago when, as the title of the group's 1978 LP put it, it was "just another band from East L.A." ❋ Unknown (2010)

One guy played a gutbucket bass, a broom handle with a single string connected to an upside-down bucket; another guy played a washboard with thimbles on his fingers; the third played a cigar box with prongs. ❋ Tommy James (2010)

In the last 50 years, we ' ve seen — just to name a few — free jazz, avant-garde, postmodern jazz, fusion, neoclassicism, smooth jazz, retro-swing and avant-gutbucket. ❋ Will Friedwald (2010)

The swaggering "Rock n Roll Man" is galvanized by gutbucket guitar playing from Cook's husband, Tim Carroll, about whom she wrote the song. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Somehow lightening and purifying the gutbucket sound of the tenor sax till it sang like an alto, Prez used that cooled-out voice to slice through the overheated busyness of early jazz, unhurriedly hanging behind the beat or somehow mysteriously hovering above it, in an ever-cool, rarefied realm not touchable by the mundane world of 4/4. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In counterpoint to the at times stately presentation (supported throughout by the intoxicating, minimalist score by Johan Söderqvist), the film is kept alive and disarmingly off kilter by moments of extreme violence and the unexpected use of special effects gimmickry (including a spontaneous full body immolation that recalls the demise of Don Rickles in John Landis' otherwise insipid INNOCENT BLOOD) that shatter the eerie calm without ever feeling like condescension to the gutbucket brigade. ❋ Arbogast (2009)

The Democratic Party is in trouble because the Independence Party is likely to become the vehicle for what Democrats have long pretended to represent: gutbucket, egalitarian, plutocrat-bashing American populism. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And the plot has been truly inane --gutbucket superhero stuff. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The thing I love - that old ch-chomp-chomp, gutbucket stuff full of tension, wry humor and barely restrained anguish. ❋ Slimbolala (2006)

But the styles of music you hear run the gamut from gutbucket rockers to gentle ballads to Motown soul. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Dancers and listeners mostly loved it, while purist critics -- who thought jazz ought to have transcended its early gutbucket populism -- hated it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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