1 : barrelhouse sense 2. 2 : a homemade bass fiddle consisting of a stick attached to an inverted washtub and having a single string.

What is gut bucket style?

[English] A style of jazz/blues playing first started by the great Louis Armstrong in "Gut Bucket Blues", circa 1927. It became a popular style of jazz practiced by early New Orleans and Chicago jazz musicians.

What's a gut bass?

The washtub bass, or gutbucket, is a stringed instrument used in American folk music that uses a metal washtub as a resonator. ... The washtub bass was used in jug bands that were popular in some African American communities in the early 1900s.