Lowside of the Road - A Life of Tom Waits

Author(s): Barney Hoskyns

Music

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.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780571351336
  • : Faber & Faber, Incorporated
  • : Faber & Faber Fiction
  • : December 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Barney Hoskyns
  • : 640