Snooky Pryor & Mel Brown

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Snooky Pryor James Edward "Snooky" Pryor (September 15, 1919[2] 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. Career 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). 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. 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[who?] historians credit the idea to Little Walter[citation needed]. 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. 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. "Snooky

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Double Shot!

Mojo Ramble

Can't Stop Blowin'

Snooky Pryor And His Mississippi Wrecking Crew

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Mojo Ramble (Live)

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Double Shot

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Slow Blues 19

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Upside 'n' Down Tight - Electro-Fi's Finest, 1997-2000

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My Private Slow Blues 19

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Mojo Ramble- Live In Concert With Mel Brown And The Homewreckers

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Love, Lost and Found

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Hard Core Harp

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