Personnel: Derek O'Brien - Guitar, Producer, Mixing Pinetop Perkins - Piano George Rains - Drums Willie "Big Eyes" Smith - Drums Stuart Sullivan - Mixing Luther Tucker - Guitar Clifford Antone - Executive Producer Bill Narum - Art Direction Dick Reeves - Art Direction John Mintz - Photography Denny Freeman - Piano Snooky Pryor - Vocals, Main Performer, Harmonica, Producer Calvin "Fuzz" Jones - Bass Ted Harvey - Drums Preston Hubbard - Bass Duke Robillard - Guitar Note: Another excellent recent set from the veteran harpist, cut down in Austin with a mixture … read more
Personnel: Derek O'Brien - Guitar, Producer, Mixing Pinetop Perkins - Piano George Rains - Drums Willie "Big Eyes" Smith - Drums Stuar… read more
Personnel: Derek O'Brien - Guitar, Producer, Mixing Pinetop Perkins - Piano George Rains - Drums Willie "Big Eyes" Smith - Drums Stuart Sullivan - Mixing Luther Tucker - G… read more
Snooky Pryor (September 15, 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 and early '50s he did not utilize this method. Career: James Edward 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 U.S. Army he w… read more
Snooky Pryor (September 15, 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 cup… read more
Snooky Pryor (September 15, 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 wit… read more