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

In addition to Kem, this year’s main performers included Jaheim, he of the fluent, lithe Luther Vandross-isms, and Anthony Hamilton, a gutbucket Southern soul singer preoccupied with vocal restraint.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2010

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