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Snooky Pryor (September 15, 1921 – October 18, 2006) was an American Chicago blues harmonica player. He claimed to have pioneered the now-common method of playing amplified harmonica by cupping a small microphone in his hands along with the harmonica, although on his earliest records in the late 1940s and early ’50s he did not utilize this method.
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James Edward Pryor was born in Lambert, Mississippi and developed a Delta blues style influenced by both Sonny Boy Williamson I and Sonny Boy Williamson II. He moved to Chicago around 1940.
While serving in the U.S. Army he would blow bugle calls through the powerful PA system, which led him to experiment with playing the harmonica that way. Upon discharge from the Army in 1945, he obtained his own amplifier, and began playing harmonica at the outdoor Maxwell Street market, becoming a regular in the Chicago blues scene.
Pryor recorded some of the first postwar Chicago blues records in 1948, including “Telephone Blues” and “Snooky & Moody’s Boogie” with guitarist Moody Jones, and “Stockyard Blues” and “Keep What You Got” with singer/guitarist Floyd Jones. “Snooky & Moody’s Boogie” is of considerable historical significance: Pryor ...
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Shake Your Boogie
Work With Me Annie
Judgment Day
Telephone Blues
Boogie Twist
That's The Way To Do It
Nine Below Zero
Look What You Do To Me
Crazy 'Bout My Baby
Headed South
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Mind Your Own Business
Shake My Hand
Too Cool To Move
Can't Stop Blowin'
Real Fine Boogie
In This Mess Up To My Chest
The Big Bear Sessions
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