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Incurable Blues: The Troubles & Triumph of Blues Legend Hubert Sumlin Paperback – March 1, 2005

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Incurable Blues explores the life and genius of Hubert Sumlin, a highly influential guitarist who has survived cancer, alcoholism, and personal and professional tribulations to testify to the classic days of Chicago blues. Sumlin's incendiary guitar playing is heard on most of Howlin' Wolf's classic Chess sides. Sumlin's pick-less playing has inspired countless blues-rock luminaries. Author Will Romano places Hubert's playing and performing style in context, showing how it formed the basis of blues rock and rock n roll and how it bridges the gap between African folk; the work of early masters like Robert Johnson, Charley Patton and Peetie Wheatstraw; the revisionist British invasion guitarists Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Keith Richards; and the modern-era blues styles of Stevie Ray Vaughan and John Mayer.
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    274 pages
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    English
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    Backbeat
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    March 1, 2005
  5. Dimensions
    6.12 x 0.67 x 8.92 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0879308338
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0879308339
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  • J. Daunt
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
    Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2010
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    It's incredible to hear his stories. From breaking his older brother's Didley Bow, to meeting Wolf for the first time, moving to Chicago and playing with Wolf. The inside stories from their nearly 30 year musical relationship and his suffering and surviving lung cancer to continue performing and helping the music live on.
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  • reginaldzar
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2014
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    excellent
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  • JStewart82
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good introduction to a Blues Guitar Titan!
    Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2017
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    A good book. I enjoyed reading about this unsung guitar hero. Wish I could have gotten more on the man and his professional/personal relationships with the other Blues Guitar Titans of his era (Otis Rush, Eddie Taylor, Guitar Slim, Magic Sam, etc.).
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  • TCallahan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensilbe: An Excellent Biography
    Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2005
    For anybody who loves the blues and wants to learn as much as possible about the music and artists who made it, Will Romano has written a must-read book. The power of Romano's book comes in the insights he gives not only into Sumlin the musician and blues great, but Sumlin the man. The amount of painstaking research shows that Romano was able to get as close to the man and the truth as probably anybody. This is not dry, academic research effort, but popular history done by a journalist who is an excellent writer and storyteller. And there can be little doubt about the importance of Romano's subject. When you listen to the records of Howlin' Wolf, you hear the impact of Sumlin on the postwar Chicago blues. This was a musician who not only was present at the creation but helped shape that creation. And the impact Sumlin has had on musicians ranging from Eric Clapton to Michael Hill is testimony to his importance. The musicians know that this was not a minor figure. The recent deaths of R.L. Burnside and Gatemouth Brown underlines the importance of getting these stories on record while we still have the chance. These artists are keys to helping us not just enjoy the blues but understand where this valuable part of our culture comes from. Romano has written a book that does just that with Hubert Sumlin, which is why is will have a lasting impact.
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  • James M. Bailey
    3.0 out of 5 stars Clunky Fanboy Biography
    Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2023
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    While there are sections that are quite informative, mostly those where the author detaches himself from his overly praise-worthy fanboy perspective, when he puts on his fanboy cap it's saccharine-sweet to the point of obnoxiousness. Plus, he over-relies on quotes--many irrelevant to what he's trying to analyze--for the book's narrative structure. No credible writer does this! What this book needed was a tough editor to make the clunky, jumpy, sometimes redundant narrative flow, cut WAY back on the corny similes, and edit down (or eliminate) the wordy or irrelevant quotes. Just proves the best biographies are those writers detached from the subject: see Robert Palmer, Philip Norman, etc. But this is the only Hubert Sumlin "biography" out there, so 3 stars for the few good sections and decent photo reproduction.
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  • Tony
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good if you are interested in blues history, great if you are a fan of Hubert Sumlin/Howling Wolf.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2016
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    A must read if you are a fan of Hubert Sumlin or Howling Wolf. Perhaps not the best written of musical biographies (a bit too expansive on how good Sumlin was), but definitely provides insight and information on an otherwise underrepresented part of blues history.
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  • bobbybluz
    3.0 out of 5 stars The Milwaukee part isn't accurate
    Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2010
    My ex Luz and I were Hubert and Mama Bea's drivers, bankers, confidants and more up until Mama Bea died. There are several factual inaccuracies in the section on Milwaukee and the way things actually were at that point in time. It angered me to see the truth ignored and glossed over for the most part in this book. There were always people flocking around Hubert promoting their own agendas and egos in Milwaukee and that continued into their "contributions" to the book. Very few people ever did anything for Hubert and Bea without an angle to get something for themselves out of it. Luz and I drove them shopping every week, cashed their checks for them until they got a bank account and then drove them to the bank, I fixed Hubert's cars and guitars, dealt with some of the wackos that showed up uninvited and talked to Bea daily on the telephone if I wasn't at the house. We took nothing in return for our time other than a Weber grill they gave me as a present.
    Nothing was mentioned of Toni's contributing to the stress Bea was under because few people actually knew what was going on. None of the people that called themselves "friends" were ever around when Hubert was out of town and to me that says a lot about their actual motives. His house there on 37th Street was/is in Milwaukee not Glendale. I grew up in that neighborhood and know it well. Glendale is miles to the east and is like a different universe.
    That beautiful 1955 Les Paul Jimmy Vivano gave Hubert vanished one day shortly after he got it when a local crack fiend broke into the house and stole it. Hubert didn't want to get the police involved and as far as I know is still missing. The car he took the engine apart in was a Chevelle station wagon. It actually ran until Hubert took it apart when drunk one day. Mama Bea called me and asked me to come look at it. Hubert had broken the camshaft trying to get it out of the block. He offered me the car for free but I didn't want it. Hubert had a 1987 Cadillac Fleetwood that the hood release cable broke on. Hubert and his neighbor Bill from across the street tried opening the hood using a bumper jack. I had to locate the correct pricey aluminum hood, paint it to match the car in 10 degree winter Milwaukee weather and repair all of the bent and damaged mounts and release mechanism. I kept the old hood as a souvenir. There are many other stories like that to be remain untold for better or worse.
    I'm not going to rant on any further but reading the book was an interesting take on how things get twisted and how history is formed from the viewpoints and agendas of those telling the story as opposed to the actual truth.
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  • Johnny R. Plunk
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good but needs editing.
    Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2018
    I like the Kindle book but the number of misspellings make me wonder if it was ever proofread.
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