Ed Pryor should not be confused with Ed Pryor (baseball).
| Ed Pryor | |
| Birth Date: | September 1989 |
| Origin: | Winchester, Tennessee, United States |
| Website: | . |
| Instrument: | sampler, synthesizer, piano, percussion |
| Years Active: | 2007-present |
| Associated Acts: | Dierks Bentley, Blanco Brown, C-Murder, Kevin Gates, Parmalee, Cassadee Pope, Rittz, Colt Ford, Montgomery Gentry, Redneck Souljers, JellyRoll |
Ed Pryor (born September 7, 1989) is an American music video director and record producer.
At an early age he experimented with a growing interest in music production and film - influenced by his father, whom had worked as a DJ. Raised in Winchester, Tennessee, a small town in southern middle Tennessee. Pryor graduation from Franklin County High School before attending and graduating from Middle Tennessee State University later moving to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a career in the music industry.[1]
The award-nominated director has developed a highly coveted client list (Snoop Dogg, Kevin Gates, Dierks Bentley, Mickey Guyton) -- while also developing various content for film and television (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Today (American TV program), Twitch (service). He was nominated for Music Video of the Year at the 2021 CMA, CMT, and ACM awards for co-directing "Gone (Dierks Bentley song) with Wes Edwards. He was nominated for Music Duo/Group Video of the Year at the 2021 CMT Awards for Just the Way by Parmalee and Blanco Brown. His work has also been featured on noteworthy television programs and publications such as The Kelly Clarkson Show, BET Jams, Billboard (magazine),[2] People (magazine),[3] Rolling Stone and more.
Pryor has produced songs for artists such as Project Pat, Bubba Sparxxx, JellyRoll, and Rittz.
His production is featured on many albums spanning several genres - rap album's such as Lil Wyte and JellyRoll's (2013) No Filter,[4] to Average Joes Entertainment's country compilation series (2014) Mud Digger 5,[5] to electronic inspired hip-hop on Chancellor Warhol's (2014) Paris is Burning and more. Many of these albums have appeared in the Billboard 200 and various other charts.[6]
Pryor is also frequent collaborator with the country rap duo Redneck Souljers and has produced all four of their albums in entirety. 2015's Firewater, debuted at No. 8 on Billboard's Heatseeker's Chart, #19 on Billboard's Rap Albums Chart, #37 on Billboard's Independent Chart, and #42 on Billboard's Top Country Albums Chart.[7]
| Year | Video | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | "I Died"[8] | Cassadee Pope (feat. Daisha McBride) |
| 2023 | "Same Ol' Me" | Dierks Bentley |
| "How You Love Someone"[9] | Mickey Guyton | |
| "Dumb Luck" | The War and Treaty | |
| "People That I Love Leave"[10] | Cassadee Pope | |
| "Almost There" | Cassadee Pope | |
| "Bigger Than The Song"[11] | Brittney Spencer | |
| "The Way I Am" | Chase Matthew | |
| "Candlelight" | SHERIE (feat. D Smoke) | |
| 2022 | "If She Ain't Country" Remix"[12] | Justin Champagne (feat. Snoop Dogg) |
| "I Still Pray"[13] | Mickey Guyton | |
| "That's How Love Is Made"[14] | The War and Treaty | |
| "Blank Page" | ||
| "She's Loves Jesus" | Chase Matthew | |
| "Everything He Couldn't" | ||
| "We Had It Good" | ||
| "Dear YoungBoy Never Going Broke" | C-Murder | |
| "Crash"[15] | Mokita (feat. Charlotte Sands) | |
| "Mood Swings"[16] | Caitlynn Curtis | |
| 2021 | "Hood"[17] | Colt Ford (feat. Kevin Gates and Jermaine Dupri) |
| "What the Stars See"[18] | Cassadee Pope (feat. Karen Fairchildof Little Big Town and Lindsay Ell) | |
| "Say It First"[19] | Cassadee Pope | |
| "Alive and Well"[20] | Montgomery Gentry | |
| "Said What I Said"[21] | Killah Calico (feat. Bryant Taylorr) | |
| "You Ain't Gone" | Sam Grow | |
| "Heathen" | Hubb Walls (Redneck Souljers) | |
| 2020 | "Gone"[22] (co-directed with Wes Edwards) | Dierks Bentley |
| "Just the Way"[23] | Parmalee + Blanco Brown | |
| "Numb" | FU Stan | |
| "Song About You" | Sam Grow | |
| "Politically Correct" | Rittz | |
| 2019 | "Twin Lakes" | Rittz |
| "Slow Ride"[24] | Colt Ford (feat. Mitchell Tenpenny) | |
| "We The People"[25] | Colt Ford | |
| "Skylines"[26] | Carter Winter | |
| "Drink About That"[27] | Sam Grow | |
| "How to Lose a Woman"[28] | Colt Ford (starring Ben Higgins of The Bachelor (American TV series)) | |
| "King of the World"[29] (co-directed with Grant Claire) | Montgomery Gentry | |
| "Boss 2.0" | Big Smo | |
| 2018 | "Enemy"[30] | Muscadine Bloodline |
| "Girl from Mississippi" | Muscadine Bloodline | |
| "Get Down South"[31] | Montgomery Gentry | |
| "You Won't See Me Again"[32] | Sister Hazel | |
| "All Rise"[33] | Yonas (hip hop artist) | |
| 2017 | "Dynamite"[34] | Colt Ford (feat. Waterloo Revival) |
| "Reload"[35] | Colt Ford (feat. Taylor Ray Holbrook) | |
| "Silent Night" | Lizzie Sider | |
| "Lyft" | 2 Live Bre | |
| "Love Again"[36] | Todd O'Neill | |
| "I'd Die For You" | Robert Stowell | |
| "The Feel Good"[37] | Rioville | |
| "Back To You" | Bingx (feat. Stevie Stone) | |
| 2016 | "4 Lane Gone" | Colt Ford |
| "That Kind of Beautiful" | Sister Hazel | |
| "Ain't Gonna Hurt You"[38] | Redneck Souljers | |
| "Day Away" | Bingx | |
| "Summertime Buzz" | Brandon Holland | |
| 2015 | "Firewater" | Redneck Souljers |
| "Calm Before the Storm" | Sarah Ross | |
| "Whiskey Dreaming" | Morgan Myles | |
| "Backwoods Badass" | Outlaw | |
| 2014 | "City Life"[39] | Justin Forrest |
| "I Don't Know"[40] | Frayser Boy |
| Year | TV Show | Episode | Role | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | S7 | Brittney Spencer - "Sober and Skinny" | Segment Director | |
| 2021 | The Kelly Clarkson Show | S3 E0 | Parmalee - "Take My Name"[41] | Segment Director |
| Year | Movie | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Old Henry | Credit Sequence Editor | |
| 2021 | Howard's Mill | Second Unit Director |
| Year | Video | Artist | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | "Bigger Than The Song" | Brittney Spencer | CMT Music Awards Breakthrough Female Video of the Year[42] | |
| 2023 | "That's How Love Is Made" | The War and Treaty | CMT Music Awards Group/Duo Video of the Year[43] | |
| 2021 | "Just the Way" | Parmalee + Blanco Brown | CMT Music Awards Group/Duo Video of the Year[44] | |
| "Gone" | Dierks Bentley | CMA Music Video of the Year[45] | ||
| CMT Music Video of the Year[46] | ||||
| ACM Music Video of the Year[47] |