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Snooky Pryor
Snooky Pryor is credited on 121 releases across 58 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1954–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
121
Pressings credited
58
Albums
8
Decades active
65
In collections
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.
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Credited work
121 releases · 58 albums · active 1954–2025
- Performance · 131
- Other credits · 103
- Production · 2
Studios: P.S. Recording Studios · Antone's · Arlyn Studios · Tonart Studio, Vienna
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Buhloone Mind State
1993
Clear Lake Audiotorium
1994
Clapton
2010
Live! Blueswailing July '64
2003
White Boy Blues, Volume 2
1986
Chess Blues
1992
Blues Anytime - Anthology Of British Blues Volume 1 & 2
1988
Chicago Slickers Volume 2 1948-1955
1980
On The Road Again An Anthology Of Chicago Blues 1947-1954
1971
Back To The Country
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Homesick James
- Eric Clapton
- Snooky Prior
- The Yardbirds
- Eddie Taylor (2)
- Big Joe Turner
- Johnny Shines
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