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Snooky Pryor (James Edward Pryor) was born on 15 September, 1921 in Lambert, Mississippi, U.S., is an American Chicago blues harmonica player. Discover Snooky Pryor's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

Popular As James Edward Pryor
Occupation Musician
Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 15 September 1921
Birthday 15 September
Birthplace Lambert, Mississippi, U.S.
Date of death 18 October, 2006
Died Place Cape Girardeau, Missouri, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1919

James Edward "Snooky" Pryor (September 15, 1919 or 1921 – October 18, 2006) was an American Chicago blues harmonica player.

1930

In the mid-1930s, in and around Vance, Mississippi, Pryor played in impromptu gatherings of three or four harmonica players, including Jimmy Rogers, who then lived nearby and had yet to take up playing the guitar.

1940

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.

Pryor was born in Lambert, Mississippi, United States.

He developed a country blues style influenced by Sonny Boy Williamson I (John Lee Williamson) and Sonny Boy Williamson II (Aleck Ford "Rice" Miller).

Pryor moved to Chicago around 1940.

While serving in the U.S. Army he would blow bugle calls through a PA system, which led him to experiment with playing the harmonica that way.

However, most historians credit the idea to Little Walter.

1945

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 on the Chicago blues scene.

1948

Pryor recorded some of the first post-war Chicago blues in 1948, including "Telephone Blues" and "Snooky & Moody's Boogie", with the guitarist Moody Jones, and "Stockyard Blues" and "Keep What You Got", with the singer and guitarist Floyd Jones.

1950

During the 1950s, Pryor regularly toured in the South.

1952

"Snooky & Moody's Boogie" is of considerable historical significance: Pryor claimed that the harmonica virtuoso Little Walter directly copied the signature riff of Pryor's song in the opening eight bars of his blues harmonica instrumental "Juke," an R&B hit in 1952.

This claim is historically questionable at best.

1956

Some of his better-known songs are "Judgement Day" (1956), "Crazy 'Bout My Baby" (from Snooky, 1989), "Where Did You Learn to Shake It Like That" (from Tenth Anniversary Anthology, 1989), and "Shake My Hand" (1999).

Pryor's son Richard "Rip Lee" Pryor is also a blues musician and performs in and around his hometown of Carbondale, Illinois.

1960

He quit music and worked as a carpenter in the late 1960s but was persuaded to make a comeback.

Blues fans later revived interest in his music, and he resumed recording occasionally until his death in nearby Cape Girardeau, Missouri, at the age of 85.

1967

In 1967, Pryor moved to Ullin, Illinois.

1973

In January 1973 he performed alongside Homesick James With the American Blues Legends '73 tour, which played throughout Europe.

On this tour they recorded an album in London, Homesick James & Snooky Pryor, for Jim Simpson's label, Big Bear Records, with Pryor also recording a solo album, Shake Your Boogie.

1995

Pryor appeared on Bob Margolin's 1995 Alligator Records release My Blues and My Guitar.