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  • Snooky Pryor
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  • Snooky Pryor
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  • African-American musicians
  • 2006 deaths
  • American male singers
  • 20th-century American singers
  • American blues singers
  • 1921 births
  • American blues harmonica players
  • American buskers
  • Blues musicians from Mississippi
  • Harmonica blues musicians
  • People from Quitman County, Mississippi
  • Songwriters from Mississippi
  • Vee-Jay Records artists
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  • American blues harmonica player.Born : September 15, 1921 in Lambert, Mississippi.Died : October 18, 2006 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Pryor's blues developed during a stint with the army, when stationed near Chicago, jamming with the likes of Sonny Boy Williamson and Homesick James and played on the Maxwell Street scene. 1945 saw his musical career begin in earnest and In 1948, he made his recording debut with %22Telephone Blues%22 now considered one of the earliest postwar Chicago blues classics. He recorded intermittently throughout the '50s and was also highly in demand as a session musician, playing on sides with Sunnyland Slim, Floyd Jones, Homesick James, and others of the %22Maxwell Street School%22. Snooky withdrew from the music scene for much of the '60s and '70s but since the 80s has been playing and performing regularly His son [a5511045] is also a blues musician
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  • Snooky Pryor (September 15, 1921 – October 18, 2006) was a 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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  • J. Pryor
  • James E. Pryor
  • James Edward Pryor
  • James Pryor
  • Pryor
  • S. Pryor
  • Snooky
  • Snooky Prior
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  • blues harmonica player
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  • 1921-09-15
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  • 2006-10-18
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  • 273905
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  • Snooky Pryor
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  • Virgin Records
  • ABC Records
  • Blind Pig Records
  • Vee-Jay Records
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  • Blues
  • Electric Blues
  • Harmonica Blues
  • Chicago Blues
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