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Article: Snooky Pryor And His Mississippi Wrecking Crew: Snooky Pryor and His Mississippi Wrecking Crew.(Sound Recording Review) (sound recording review)
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- June 22, 2003
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Octogenarian Snooky Pryor began singing and playing his passionately piercing amplified blues harmonica at Chicago's fabled Maxwell Street open-air flea market during the mid-1940s and has never stopped. Career highlights include waxing "Telephone Blues" and "Snooky and Moody's Boogie," considered the first postwar Windy City blues record as well as touring throughout Illinois, Arkansas and Tennessee during the golden age of Chicago blues, often accompanied by his cousins, Moody and Floyd Jones. Pryor also recorded further 78 rpm discs for most of the city's indic labels (Vee-Jay, Chess, Parrot and JOB, among others), either solo or backing the ...