The son of famed bluesman Snooky Pryor, Richard covers 5 of his father's songs on his 1998 debut, Pitch a Boogie Woogie.
Though his harpwork is often similar to his father's, but as
revivalists go -- Richard still maintains his day job of 20+ years, as a
carpenter for Southern Illinois University at Carbondale to focus on
the blues -- he's fairly innovative. "His own compositions," Chicago
Reader critic David Whiteis says, "show even more promise: on the
driving shuffle 'Thank You Baby' he coaxes everything from wobbly
ululations to raw shrieks from his instrument, and 'Push a Lot of
Lovin', a roguish sermon on the finer points of two-timing, is a swampy
back woods lope."
Source: Center Stage Chicago.com.
