Snooky Pryor Mind Your Own Business

Good chunky barroom blues on this outing from a grand old harmonica player. Pryor saves the serious energy for his harp blowing, but he does just fine as a vocalist too, with a nicely aged and lived-in voice. Everybody on the record has a set place and knows their moves, and that's okay too. This is a good-times kind of album.

""I'm old, but I'm hell," quipped Snooky Pryor as he laid down another white-hot track for Can't Stop Blowin'. While the 77-year-old harmonica maestro is advanced in years, he can still deliver his incendiary interpretations of the devil's music with fervid force. Pryor's extensive experience, his impeccable blues credentials and his pioneering contributions to the harmonica bring a profusion of riches to this recording.
All but one of the musicians backing Pryor on these sessions had had the privilege of playing with him before. The inclusion of Texas-guitar ace Mel Brown was a rare treat as his delectable licks added a smooth but pungent zest to the musical milieu. Snooky and Mel hadn't seen each other in years, yet their music dovetailed seamlessly, their chemistry as potent as if they'd just come off a long stretch on the road together.

Blues harp legend Snooky Pryor and this all-star band gathered together to celebrate Snooky's 80th birthday and record this studio album of deep blues. Features blues blasters Pinetop Perkins, Mel Brown, Jeff Healey and Willie Smith.

West Coast vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Robert Lucas forged a path for himself in the blues world after the release of his much-hailed 1990 self-produced debut cassette, Across the River. Based in Long Beach, CA, as a solo artist Lucas recorded for the Audioquest label out of San Clemente. He was also a member of the legendary boogie blues band Canned Heat, singing and playing bottleneck guitar and harmonica with the group off and on starting in 1994. Lucas paid homage to traditional blues but also carefully crafted his own singing and slide guitar style. These talents are on ample display on his Audioquest albums, including Luke and the Locomotives, Usin' Man Blues, Built for Comfort, Layaway, and Completely Blue, all released during the '90s, as well as latter-day Canned Heat albums on the Ruf and Fuel 2000 labels.