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Snooky Pryor
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1921
- Active to
- 2006
Discography
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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. Career: James Edward Pryor was born in Lambert, Mississippi and developed a Delta blues style influenced by both Sonny Boy Williamson I and Sonny B
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Lambert
- Place of death
- Cape Girardeau
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Vee-Jay Records
- Image
- Snooky Pryor.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1921-09-15
- date of death
- 2006-10-18
- start of work period
- 1945-00-00
- Commons category
- Snooky Pryor
- birth name
- James Edward Pryor
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