Ed Pryor Explained

Ed Pryor should not be confused with Ed Pryor (baseball).

Ed Pryor
Birth Date:September 1989
Origin:Winchester, Tennessee, United States
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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.

Early life

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]

Career

Music videos

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.

Music production

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]

Videos directed

YearVideoArtist
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

Television

YearTV ShowEpisodeRole
2022The Late Show with Stephen ColbertS7Brittney Spencer - "Sober and Skinny"Segment Director
2021The Kelly Clarkson ShowS3 E0Parmalee - "Take My Name"[41] Segment Director

Film

YearMovieRole
2021Old HenryCredit Sequence Editor
2021Howard's MillSecond Unit Director

Awards and nominations

YearVideoArtistCategoryResult
2024"Bigger Than The Song"Brittney SpencerCMT Music Awards Breakthrough Female Video of the Year[42]
2023"That's How Love Is Made"The War and TreatyCMT Music Awards Group/Duo Video of the Year[43]
2021"Just the Way"Parmalee + Blanco BrownCMT Music Awards Group/Duo Video of the Year[44]
"Gone"Dierks BentleyCMA Music Video of the Year[45]
CMT Music Video of the Year[46]
ACM Music Video of the Year[47]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About. edpryor.com. 2016-07-16.
  2. Web site: 2018-05-30. Sister Hazel Delivers Hopeful Message About Addiction With 'You Won't See Me Again' Video: Premiere. 2020-07-20. Billboard.
  3. Web site: Adam Craig's 'If You're Lucky' Video Shoot: Behind-the-Scenes Photos. 2020-07-20. people.com. EN.
  4. Web site: No Filter - Lil Wyte, Jelly Roll Credits AllMusic. AllMusic. 2016-07-16.
  5. Web site: Mud Digger, Vol. 5 - Various Artists Credits AllMusic. AllMusic. 2016-07-16.
  6. Web site: Mud Digger, Vol. 5 - Various Artists Awards AllMusic. AllMusic. 2016-07-16.
  7. Web site: Redneck Souljers - Chart history Billboard. www.billboard.com. 2016-07-16.
  8. Web site: Magazine . Digital Beat . 2024-06-15 . Cassadee Pope Releases Music Video For New Single “I Died” . 2024-06-21 . Digital Beat Magazine . en-US.
  9. Web site: 2023-02-10 . Mickey Guyton - How You Love Someone - video Dailymotion . 2023-02-17 . Dailymotion . en.
  10. Web site: Winters . Tyler . 2023-05-18 . Cassadee Pope drops music video for "People That I Love Leave" . 2023-06-01 . All Punked Up . en-US.
  11. Web site: CMT Premiere: Brittney Spencer Explores Her Love of Music in "Bigger Than The Song" . https://web.archive.org/web/20231003011524/https://www.cmt.com/news/mnsbp4/cmt-premiere-brittney-spencer-explores-her-love-of-music-in-bigger-than-the-song . dead . October 3, 2023 . 2023-10-05 . . en.
  12. Web site: 2022-10-03 . Industry Ink: CMHOF, CMA, Drew Baldridge, Justin Champagne . 2022-10-17 . MusicRow.com . en-US.
  13. Web site: 2022-11-01 . Mickey Guyton - I Still Pray - video Dailymotion . 2022-11-11 . Dailymotion . en.
  14. Web site: THE WAR AND TREATY UNLEASH RAW POWER ON MAJOR LABEL DEBUT "THAT’S HOW LOVE IS MADE" . 2022-08-26 . Grateful Web . en.
  15. Web site: Mokita teams up with Charlotte Sands on new song "Crash" . 2022-06-06 . www.radioandmusic.com . en.
  16. Web site: Caitlynne Curtis Releases New Song "Mood Swings" . 2022-11-04 . pm studio world wide news . ja.
  17. Web site: Samuel . S. . 2021-11-22 . Jermaine Dupri, Kevin Gates And Colt Ford Get "Hood" In New Song . 2022-08-18 . SOHH.com . en-US.
  18. Web site: Cassadee Pope Debuts '80s-Inspired 'What the Stars See' Music Video Featuring Lindsay Ell and Karen Fairchild. 2021-05-14. PEOPLE.com. en.
  19. Web site: 2021-07-23. Watch Cassadee Pope Harness the Elements for 'Say It First' Video Premiere. 2021-07-26. Sounds Like Nashville.
  20. Web site: Hudak. Joseph. 2021-08-27. Eddie Montgomery Previews Debut Solo Album With New Song 'Alive and Well'. 2021-08-30. Rolling Stone. en-US.
  21. Web site: 2021-08-13. Video: Killah Calico Ft. Bryant Taylorr - Said What I Said Traps N Trunks. 2021-08-17. Traps N Trunks // Hood Certified Gangsta Music Added Daily!. en.
  22. Web site: Watch Dierks Bentley Transform Into Dwight Schrute, Fight Daenerys' Dragons & More in 'Gone' Video. 2020-12-12. Billboard. en.
  23. Web site: 2020-02-24. Parmalee & Blanco Brown See Beauty in "Just the Way". https://web.archive.org/web/20200225060752/http://www.cmt.com/news/1818136/blanco-brown-parmalee-just-the-way/. dead. February 25, 2020. 2020-12-10. CMT News.
  24. Web site: Colt Ford Releases "Slow Ride" Music Video with Mitchell Tenpenny, New Album ‘We The People’ Drops September 20th. 2019-08-29. Music Mayhem Magazine. en-US. 2019-09-01.
  25. Web site: 2019-06-24. Colt Ford Releases Music Video for "We The People" and Writes Essay Calling for Unity. 2020-12-10. Music Mayhem Magazine. en-US.
  26. Web site: Carter Winter "Skylines". https://web.archive.org/web/20190226045839/http://www.cmt.com/news/1802714/carter-winter-skylines/. dead. February 26, 2019. CMT News. 2019-02-25.
  27. Web site: Sam Grow Sends a Message in "Drink About That". https://web.archive.org/web/20191122135818/http://www.cmt.com/news/1814861/sam-grow-i-still-drink-about-that/. dead. November 22, 2019. CMT News. 2019-11-28.
  28. Web site: Release. Press. 2019-03-12. Colt Ford’s New Video, "How You Lose A Woman," Starring Ben Higgins, World Premieres Today on CMT Music, CMT.com. 2021-08-30. The Country Note. en-US.
  29. Web site: Exclusive: Eddie Montgomery releases 'King of the World' music video. 2019-04-01. Fox News. en-US. 2019-04-02.
  30. Web site: Freeman. Jon. 2018-12-28. See Muscadine Bloodline's Haunting 'Enemy' Video. 2020-12-04. Rolling Stone. en-US.
  31. Web site: June 7, 2018. Sterling. Whitaker. Montgomery Gentry Show Us How to 'Get Down South' in New Video. 2020-12-04. Taste of Country. en.
  32. Web site: Sister Hazel Delivers Hopeful Message About Addiction With 'You Won't See Me Again' Video: Premiere. 2020-12-04. Billboard. en.
  33. Web site: Vandala. 2018-04-26. Indie Rapper, YONAS, Declares It’s His Time on "All Rise". 2020-12-04. Vandala Magazine. en.
  34. News: A country rapper turns on the sophisticated swagger in this surprising new music video. 2017-12-28. Country Music News, Artists, Songs, and Videos Rare Country. 2018-01-23. en-US.
  35. News: 2017-03-28. Exclusive: Colt Ford debuts 'Reload' music video starring UFC's Rashad Evans. en-US. Fox News. 2017-04-04.
  36. News: Todd O'Neill Brings "Love Again" to Fans & Country Radio. 2017-04-14. Big Machine Label Group. 2017-06-28. en-US.
  37. Web site: Watch: "The Feel Good" by Rio Ville . liquidloungeradio.com. en-US. 2018-04-28.
  38. Web site: Redneck Souljers "Ain’t Gonna Hurt You" Hick Hop Music. hickhopmusic.com. 2016-11-06.
  39. Web site: [Video] Justin Forrest- City Life (dir. Ed Pryor) 2 L's On A Cloud]. www.2lsonacloud.com. 2016-11-06.
  40. Web site: FrayserBoy - I Don't Know [Phixieous Entertainment]]. 2016-07-16. WorldStarHipHop.
  41. Web site: jwills. 2021-10-21. Parmalee Performed "Take My Name" on The Kelly Clarkson Show. 2022-02-21. The Country Daily. en-US.
  42. Web site: Nicholson . Jessica . 2024-03-13 . Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson & More Lead 2024 CMT Music Awards Nominations . 2024-03-13 . Billboard . en-US.
  43. Web site: Dowling . Marcus K. . Lainey Wilson leads the 2023 CMT Music Awards nominations: See the full list of nominees . 2023-03-21 . USA TODAY . en-US.
  44. Web site: CMT Awards Nominations 2021: Miranda Lambert and Maren Morris Lead the Pack with 4 Nods Each. 2021-05-14. PEOPLE.com. en.
  45. Web site: Willman. Chris. 2021-09-09. Eric Church, Chris Stapleton Lead CMA Awards Nominations With Five Each. 2021-09-09. Variety. en-US.
  46. Web site: CMT Awards Nominations 2021: Miranda Lambert and Maren Morris Lead the Pack with 4 Nods Each. 2021-05-14. PEOPLE.com. en.
  47. Web site: Maren Morris & Chris Stapleton Lead 2021 ACM Awards Nominations. 2021-03-02. Billboard. en.