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Snooky Pryor

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James Edward "Snooky" Pryor (September 15, 1919 or 1921 – October 18, 2006) was an American Chicago blues harmonica player. [1]

43 relations: A-side and B-side, ABC Records, AllMusic, Amplifier, Antone's Record Label, Big Bear Records, Blind Pig Records, Bugle, Bugle call, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Carbondale, Illinois, Chicago, Chicago blues, Chicago Blues Festival, Delta blues, Discogs, Double Shot!, Edinburgh, Electro-Fi Records, Floyd Jones, Harmonica, Hohner, Homesick James, Lambert, Mississippi, List of Chicago blues musicians, List of harmonica blues musicians, List of harmonicists, Little Walter, Maxwell Street, Mel Brown (guitarist), Moody Jones, MP3, Public address system, Richter-tuned harmonica, San Francisco Blues Festival, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Telarc International Corporation, The Guardian, Ullin, Illinois, United States, Vee-Jay Records, Virgin Records.

A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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ABC Records

ABC Records was an American record label founded in New York City in 1955.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Amplifier

An amplifier, electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic device that can increase the power of a signal (a time-varying voltage or current).

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Antone's Record Label

Antone's was a record label based in Austin, Texas.

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Big Bear Records

Big Bear Records is a British record label set up in 1968 by Jim Simpson in Birmingham, England.

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Blind Pig Records

Blind Pig Records is an American blues independent record label.

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Bugle

The bugle is one of the simplest brass instruments, having no valves or other pitch-altering devices.

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Bugle call

A bugle call is a short tune, originating as a military signal announcing scheduled and certain non-scheduled events on a military installation, battlefield, or ship.

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Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Cape Girardeau (Cap-Girardeau; colloquially referred to as "Cape") is a city in Cape Girardeau and Scott counties in the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Carbondale, Illinois

Carbondale is a city in Jackson County, Illinois, United States, within the Southern Illinois region informally known as "Little Egypt." The city developed from 1853 because of the stimulation of railroad construction into the area.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicago blues

The Chicago blues is a form of blues music indigenous to Chicago, Illinois.

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Chicago Blues Festival

The Chicago Blues Festival is an annual event held in June, that features three days of performances by top-tier blues musicians, both old favorites and the up-and-coming.

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Delta blues

Delta blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues music.

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Discogs

Discogs (short for discographies) is a website and crowdsourced database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases.

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Double Shot!

Double Shot! is the first blues album recorded by harmonica player Snooky Pryor and guitarist Mel Brown.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Electro-Fi Records

Electro-Fi Records is an award-winning independent record label founded in 1996, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which specializes in the release of blues records.

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Floyd Jones

Floyd Jones (July 21, 1917 – December 19, 1989) was an American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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Harmonica

The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.

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Hohner

Hohner Musikinstrumente GmbH & Co.

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Homesick James

Homesick James (April 30, 1910Harris, S. (1981). Blues Who's Who. New York, Da Capo Press. pp. 574–575. – December 13, 2006)According to this, he may have been born in 1905, 1910, 1914, or 1924.

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Lambert, Mississippi

Lambert is a town in Quitman County, Mississippi.

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List of Chicago blues musicians

Chicago blues is a form of blues music developed in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1950s, in which the basic instrumentation of Delta blues—acoustic guitar and harmonica—is augmented with electric guitar, amplified bass guitar, drums, piano, harmonica played with a microphone and an amplifier, and sometimes saxophone.

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List of harmonica blues musicians

The following is a list of harmonica blues musicians.

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List of harmonicists

This is a list of musicians that are notable for their harmonica playing.

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Little Walter

Marion Walter Jacobs (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968), known as Little Walter, was an American blues musician, singer, and songwriter, whose revolutionary approach to the harmonica and impact on succeeding generations earned comparisons for him to such seminal artists as Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix.

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Maxwell Street

Maxwell Street is an east-west street in Chicago, Illinois that intersects with Halsted Street just south of Roosevelt Road.

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Mel Brown (guitarist)

Mel Brown (October 7, 1939March 20, 2009) was an American-born blues guitarist and singer.

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Moody Jones

Moody Jones (April 8, 1908 – March 23, 1988) was an American blues guitarist, bass player, and singer who contributed to the development of the postwar Chicago blues sound in the late 1940s.

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MP3

MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is an audio coding format for digital audio.

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Public address system

A public address system (PA system) is an electronic system comprising microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers, and related equipment.

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Richter-tuned harmonica

The Richter-tuned harmonica, or 10-hole harmonica (in Asia) or blues harp (in America), is the most widely known type of harmonica.

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San Francisco Blues Festival

Debuting in 1973, the San Francisco Blues Festival is the longest running blues festival in the United States.

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Sonny Boy Williamson I

John Lee Curtis "Sonny Boy" Williamson (March 30, 1914 – June 1, 1948) was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter.

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Sonny Boy Williamson II

Alex or Aleck Miller (né Ford, possibly December 5, 1912 – May 24, 1965), known later in his career as Sonny Boy Williamson, was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter.

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Telarc International Corporation

Telarc International Corporation is an American audiophile independent record label founded in 1977 by two classically trained musicians and former teachers, Jack Renner and Robert Woods.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Ullin, Illinois

Ullin is a village in Pulaski County, Illinois, United States.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vee-Jay Records

Vee-Jay Records is an American record label founded in the 1950s, located in Chicago and specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll.

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Virgin Records

Virgin Records Ltd. was a British record label founded by entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman in 1972.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooky_Pryor

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