Barrelhouse or Barrel House may refer to:
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juke joint
Juke joint (also jukejoint, jook house, jook, or juke) is the vernacular term for an informal establishment featuring music, dancing, gambling, and drinking, primarily operated by African Americans in the southeastern United States. A juke joint ...
", a bar or saloon. Originates from the storage of barrels of alcohol.
*An early form of jazz with wild, improvised piano, and an accented two-beat rhythm (see
Boogie-woogie
Boogie-woogie is a genre of blues music that became popular during the late 1920s, developed in African-American communities since 1870s.Paul, Elliot, ''That Crazy American Music'' (1957), Chapter 10, p. 229. It was eventually extended from pian ...
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Barrelhouse Records
Barrelhouse Records was an American blues and rockabilly record label, set up in 1969 by George Paulus.
Its roster included musicians as varied as Washboard Willie, Big John Wrencher, Charlie Feathers, Harmonica Frank, Sleepy John Estes, Johnny " ...
, a record label
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London Blues and Barrelhouse Club
The London Blues and Barrelhouse Club ran between 1957 and 1961 at the Round House public house at the junction of Wardour Street and Brewer Street in Soho, London. Established by Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner, it hosted many visiting Americ ...
, a blues club in London founded by Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies
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Barrelhouse Club
The Barrelhouse Club, at 107th and Wilmington in Watts, Los Angeles, was a rhythm and blues nightclub opened in 1948 Otis, Johnny (2009''Listen to the Lambs'', pp. 156-7. University of Minnesota Press At Google Books. Retrieved 7 September 2013. an ...
, a rhythm and blues nightclub in Los Angeles, co-owned by Johnny Otis
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Barrelhouse Chuck
Barrelhouse Chuck (born Harvey Charles Goering; July 10, 1958 – December 12, 2016) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues pianist, keyboardist, singer, and songwriter.
He claimed to be the only Chicago blues pianist to have studied u ...
(1958–2016), American Chicago blues musician
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