Snooky Pryor

Biography

James Edward "Snooky" Pryor (September 15, 1919 or 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, he did not use this method. In 2023, he was inducted in the Blues Hall of Fame.

Bio from Wikipedia

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

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  Buhloone Mind State

  1993

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  Clear Lake Audiotorium

  1994

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  Clapton

  2010

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  Live! Blueswailing July '64

  2003

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  Chess Blues

  1992

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  On The Road Again An Anthology Of Chicago Blues 1947-1954

  1971

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  Back To The Country

Credited work

219 releases · 57 albums · active 1954–2026

• Performance · 261
• Other credits · 190
• Production · 2

Studios: Ocean Way Recording · Piety Street Recording · P.S. Recording Studios · Arlyn Studios

Frequent collaborators

• Various
• Homesick James
• Eric Clapton
• De La Soul
• Carey Bell
• Big Joe Turner
• Vargas Blues Band
• Sven Zetterberg

Around the web

• Wikipedia