. . . bucket used to carry beer; a dive for drinking; from about 1900 to 1950 or so, "gutbucket" meant a low-down, nitty-gritty blues style of jazz originally played in gin mills, barrelhouses, whorehouses, 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 Juba To Jive: A Dictionary Of African-American Slang, edited by Clarence Major, copyright © 1970, 1994.)
This photo shows the interior of the Old Absinthe House Bar on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, where the walls are covered with, among other things, autographed legal tender!
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Okay. Here are 20-something great festival
photos by Chicago's own Niles Frantz.
And here are 20-something more great
festival photos by Niles Frantz.
And here are 25 more remarkable festival
photos by Niles Frantz.
See 21 1970's concert photos by
Swedish photographer Torsten Stahlberg.
From St. Pete, Florida, see five photos with
B.B. King, Robert Cray, and Tower of Power.
Also at the 1997 Blues & BBQ Festival, B.B.
and the band pause for photos enroute to the stage.
See nine more of Niles Frantz' photos from
this year's awards and jams in Memphis.
See five photos by P.W. and Roz Fenton,
including a King size surprise or two.
But Lemon Jefferson has a new headstone!
See a tribute in words and pictures by
Atlanta photographer Jimmy Stratton.
support the Delta Blues Museum.
and I'm booked and I got to go . . .
Consider the very strange fate of
Muddy's Cabin in two opinions or less.
Visit a selection of outstanding web sites.
