SNOOKY PRYOR

Pryor was born in [[Lambert, Mississippi]] and developed a [[Delta blues]] style influenced by both [[Sonny Boy Williamson I]] and [[Sonny Boy Williamson II]]. He moved to Chicago around 1940. 

While serving in the Army he would blow bugle calls through the powerful [[PA system]], which led him to experiment with playing the harmonica that way. Upon discharge from the army in 1945, he obtained his own amplifier, and introduced the sound to [[Maxwell Street]] audiences, becoming a regular in the [[Chicago blues]] scene.

Pryor recorded some of the first postwar [[Chicago blues]] records in 1948, including "Telephone Blues" and "Snooky & Moody's Boogie" with guitarist Moody Jones. He moved south to [[Ullin, Illinois]] in 1967, where he dropped out of sight, but was rediscovered in 1987 (WRONG! Snooky Pryor was "rediscovered" and interviewed by Amy van Singel and Jim O'Neal for Living Blues Magazine in 1971 ... thanks to Homesick James' help.) and resumed periodic recording until his death in nearby [[Cape Girardeau, Missouri]] at the age of 85.

In January 1973 he made his comeback with the American Blues Legends tour which played throughout Europe (including Loughborough University in the UK), alongside Homesick James. Whilst on this tour they recorded an album in London "Homesick James & Snooky Pryor"