Snooky Pryor
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Biography
[Edit]Only recently has Snooky Pryor finally begun to receive full credit for the mammoth role he played in shaping the amplified Chicago blues harp sound during the postwar era. He's long claimed he was the first harpist to run his sound through a public address system around the Windy City — and since nobody's around to refute the claim at this point, we'll have to accept it! James Edward Pryor was playing harmonica at the age of eight in Mississippi. The two Sonny Boys were influential to Pryor's emerging style, as he played around the Delta. He hit Chicago for the first time in 1940, later serving in the Army at nearby Fort Sheridan. Playing his harp through powerful Army PA systems gave Pryor the idea to acquire his own portable rig once he left the service. Armed with a primitive amp, he dazzled the folks on Maxwell Street in late 1945 with his massively amplified harp. Pryor made some groundbreaking 78s during the immediate postwar Chicago blues era. Teaming with guitarist Moody Jones, he waxed "Telephone Blues" and "Boogie" for Planet Records in 1948, encoring the next year with "Boogy Fool"/"Raisin' Sand" for JOB with Jones on bass and guitarist Baby Face Leroy Foster in support. Pryor made more classic sides for JOB (1952-1953), Parrot (1953), and Vee-Jay ("Someone to Love Me"/"Judgment Day") in 1956, but commercial success never materialized. He wound down his blues-playing in the early '60s, finally chucking it all and moving to downstate Ullin, IL, in 1967. For a long while, Pryor's whereabouts were unknown. But the 1987 Blind Pig album Snooky, produced by guitarist Steve Freund, announced to the world that the veteran harpist was alive and well, his chops still honed. A pair of solid discs for Antone's, Too Cool to Move and In This Mess Up to My Chest, followed. Pryor stayed busy until his death in 2006.
Title: The Snooky Pryor Story Vol. 1: Chicago Blues Harmonica Pioneer
Artist: Snooky Pryor
Genre: Blues
Collections
Title: Antone's 20th Anniversary
Genre: Blues
Title: Santa's Got Mojo
Genre: Blues
Title: National Downhome Blues Festival, Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: White Line Flyers - Mile Melting Road Raves
Genre: Blues
Title: ''Fessa'' Hook's Fish Fry, Vol.1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Blues Masterpieces, Vol. 6
Genre: Blues
Title: Lost & Found - Job Records - Volume 2
Genre: Blues
Title: The J.O.B. Records Blues Story
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Harp Bosses Classic Blues Collection
Genre: Pop
Title: Harp and Soul
Genre: Blues
Title: The Blues of Chicago, Vol. 4
Genre: Blues
Title: Blind Pig Sampler - Prime Chops
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Live from Mountain Stage
Genre: Blues
Title: Authentic Folk Blues 1945 to 1970
Genre: Blues
Title: Murder In the First Degree
Genre: Blues
Title: The Parrot Records Blues Story
Genre: Blues
Title: Chicago Blues (Parrot Records) [Remastered]
Genre: Blues
Title: Chicago Blues Harmonicas
Genre: Blues
Title: Prime Chops Volume Two
Genre: Blues
Title: The Blues Came from Mississippi
Genre: Blues
Title: Lost & Found - Job Records, Vol. 1
Genre: Blues
Title: A Taste of the Blues, Vol. 1
Genre: Blues
Title: Chicago Blues, Vol. 4
Genre: Blues
Title: Best of Chicago Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Chicago Blues Kings
Genre: Blues
Title: The Acoustic Blues Box Set
Genre: Blues
Title: Antone's Tenth Anniversary Anthology
Genre: Blues
Title: Heritage of The Blues 1956, Vol. 4
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Street-Walking Blues, Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Gold
Genre: Blues, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: The Best of the Blues Vol. 3
Genre: Blues
Title: The Best of Harmonica Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: American Blues Legends '73
Title: Chicago Blues Harmonica
Genre: Blues
Title: Chicago Blues, Vol. 3
Genre: Blues
Title: Me and the Devil Blues Authentic Blues Masters
Genre: Blues
Title: National Downhome Blues Festival, Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: ABC Of The Blues CD 35
Genre: Blues
Title: Electro - Fi - CD1
Genre: Electronica, Blues
Title: Electro - Fi - CD2
Genre: Blues
Title: Live From Antone's: Tenth Anniversary Anthology Vol. 1
Genre: Blues
Title: Just Wailing (CD1)
Genre: Blues
Title: Just Wailing (CD2)
Genre: Blues
Title: Gonna Rock The Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The J. O. B. Records Blues Story (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Electric Blues 2005 Part1 Beginnings 1939-1954 (CD2)
Genre: Blues
Title: The R&B Years 1956: Vol. 2 (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: Chicago In Mind
Genre: Blues
Title: Blind Pig Presents: Road Trip Blues
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock
Title: Charly Blues Masterworks, Volume 32: Blow Brother Blow
Genre: Blues
Title: Blind Pig Presents Mississippi To Chicago Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blind Pig Presents: Harmonica Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues: Chicago Sound, Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: A Taste Of The Blues Vol. 1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Blues
Featuring albums
Title: Blues Harp Hero
Artist: Sonny Boy Williamson, Jimmy Reed, Earl Hooker, Junior Wells, Walter Horton, Frank Frost, Louis Myers, Jerry McCain, Little Willie Foster, George Butler
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Live from Mountain Stage
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Blues, Alternative Rock, Acoustic