ocr: Gutbucket; gut-bucket n, adj. (1890s - 1950s)... bucket used to carry beer; a dive for drinking; from about 1900 to 1950or 30, gutbucket" meant a low-down, nitty-gritty blues style of. jazz originally played in gin mills, parrelnouses, whorenouses, and honky-tonks. The word referred to the smaller bucket placed beneath the larger liquor barrels to catch the gin leakage in such places. (From Jubs TOJiVe:4. Dictionaryor HIr1c80-HmerC8N Slang, edited by Clarence Major, copyright? 1970, 1994.) This photo shows the interior of the Old Absinthe House Bar on Bourbon Street in New Urleans, where the w ...
