University Wire 07-09-1999 (Daily Egyptian) (U-WIRE) CARBONDALE, Ill. -- As authentic blues men continue to dwindle in numbers due to death and illness, the blues has become saturated with imitators who produce albums filled with inept and uninspired songs. With its widespread acceptance, blues...

Electro-Fi 3373 Octogenarian Snooky Pryor began singing and playing his passionately piercing amplified blues harmonica at Chicago's fabled Maxwell Street open-air flea market during the mid-1940s and has never stopped. Career highlights include waxing "Telephone Blues" and "Snooky and Moody's Boogie," considered...