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What is a barrelhouse?

What is a barrelhouse? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A rough and tumble drinking establishment.
  2. (music) A loud, percussive type of blues piano suitable for noisy bars or taverns.
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The Dead had a new barrelhouse piano player, Keith Godchaux, yet still had their soul man, Pigpen.
She snagged a piano and pounded out barrelhouse runs in quirky time as I carried the main thread of the movement on a cello.
With its galloping triplets, the arrangement moves faithfully, up until a growlingly barrelhouse section, the concert hall equivalent of a nudge in the ribs.
He had tap-danced at a local nightclub with the barrelhouse pianist Speckled Red and he thought that this helped him to play the two bass drums with such dexterity.
The title track's a barrelhouse rocker, dripping attitude, about how she can use what she's got to get what she wants.
The jingoistic approach to songwriting continued with the barrelhouse blues of Toe The Line.

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