by Barney Hoskyns (Author)
Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from Closing Time to Orphans, Lowside of the Road is Barney Hoskyns' unique take on one of rock's great enigmas. Like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Waits is a chameleonic survivor who's achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider mystique. From his perilous jazzbo years in '70s Los Angeles to the multiple-Grammy winner of recent years - by way of such shape-shifting '80s albums as Swordfishtrombones - this exhaustive biography charts Waits' life step-by-step and album-by-album. Affectionate and penetrating, and based on a combination of assiduous research and deep critical insight, this is a outstanding investigation of a notoriously private artist and performer - the definitive account to date of Tom Waits' life and work.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 640
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 01 May 2010
ISBN 10: 0571235530
ISBN 13: 9780571235537
Book Overview: Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits, by Barney Hoskyns, is the exhaustive, definitive biography of Tom Waits, one of the most influential artists of all time.