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{{Short description|American Chicago blues harmonica player (c. 1919β2006)}} {{use American English|date=March 2024}} {{use mdy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Multiple issues| {{More citations needed|date=October 2010}} {{More footnotes needed|date=January 2019}}}} {{Infobox musical artist |name = Snooky Pryor |image = Snooky Pryor.jpg |caption = Pryor in [[Edinburgh]] in 1993 |image_size = |background = solo_singer |birth_name = James Edward Pryor |alias = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|9|15}} or 1921 |birth_place = [[Lambert, Mississippi]], U.S. |death_date = {{Death date|2006|10|18}} (aged 85 or 87) |death_place = [[Cape Girardeau, Missouri]], U.S. |genre = {{hlist|[[Chicago blues]]|[[Delta blues]]}} |occupation = Musician |instrument = {{hlist|Harmonica|vocals}} |years_active = 1945β2006 |label = {{hlist|[[Vee Jay Records|Vee-Jay]]|[[Virgin Records|Virgin]]|[[ABC Records|ABC]]|[[Blind Pig Records|Blind Pig]]|[[Telarc Records|Telarc]]|[[Electro-Fi Records|Electro-Fi]]}} |website = }} '''James Edward "Snooky" Pryor''' (September 15, 1919<ref name="bare">{{cite book| first1= Bob| last1= Eagle| first2= Eric S.| last2= LeBlanc| year= 2013| title= Blues: A Regional Experience| publisher= Praeger | location= Santa Barbara, California| pages=193 | isbn= 978-0313344237}}</ref> or 1921<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=1997|edition=Concise|isbn=1-85227-745-9|page=981}}</ref> β October 18, 2006) was an American [[Chicago blues]] [[harmonica]] player.<ref name="Music">{{cite book | first= Paul | last= Du Noyer | year= 2003 | title= The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music | publisher= Flame Tree Publishing | location= Fulham, London | isbn= 1-904041-96-5 | page= 181}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/nov/10/guardianobituaries.obituaries1 | newspaper=[[The Guardian]] | date = 10 November 2006 | access-date = 7 August 2011 | title = Obituary of Snooky Pryor | author = Russell, Tony}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Grein |first=Paul |date=2023-03-15 |title=Esther Phillips, Josh White & More to Be Inducted into Blues Hall of Fame: Full List of 2023 Inductees |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/esther-phillips-blues-hall-of-fame-2023-inductees-1235286772/ |access-date=2023-04-16 |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ehrenclou |first=Martine |date=2023-03-15 |title=Blues Hall of Fame 2023 Inductees Announced |url=https://www.rockandbluesmuse.com/2023/03/15/blues-hall-of-fame-2023-inductees-announced/ |access-date=2023-04-16 |website=ROCK AND BLUES MUSE |language=en-US}}</ref>
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