gut-bucket

Mr. Navarrete is, in many ways, the embodiment of that unfortunate boxing clich é : Kid from gut-bucket poverty punches his way to fame and fortune, only to give it all away and end up destitute again.

The Life of a Prizefighter Ted Lerner 2010

McCain finds a gut-bucket issue that works -- my personal suspicion is that it will be immigration demagoguery, even though he wrote the comprehensive bill.

Game Changers - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

Hopefuls included jazz, humming-and-strumming singer-songwriters, Russian gypsy music, gypsy funk, a group described as the "Cockeyed Cockney Carolers" and another act, described by its pianist as "gut-bucket, whiskey-drinking traditional jazz from the Prohibition era."

Line Up to be Next Subway Idol 2010

Having aspired to be as famous as Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (a gut-bucket singer and songwriter well known only to blues devotees), Elvis Presley surpassed his early ambitions by a factor of about a zillion, and after a few years the enormity of his success began to weigh upon him.

Hustling Elvis Hajdu, David 2003

On "In the World" he embraces Caribbean rhythms, African highlife/socca riffs, and gut-bucket blues.

Zinhof 2010

Choc-full of ghostly blues, gut-bucket slide guitar, with a smattering of ol 'time country.

"xchannel" via Mindfield in Google Reader simon2307 2010

Spencer's gut-bucket inclinations and Martinez's sexy yet sinister vocals.

Chicagoist 2010

His style was not adventurous; it was a return to the music's spiritual, gut-bucket roots.

TIME.com: Top Stories Joe Klein 2010

Lee Fields is described as a "pure, gut-bucket soul singer".

planet.journals.ie 2009

Lee Fields is described as a "pure, gut-bucket soul singer".

planet.journals.ie 2009