Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits

Like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Tom 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, this biography charts Waits' life step-by-step and album-by-album.

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.

• | Author: Barney Hoskyns
• | Publisher: Faber & Faber
• | Publication Date: May 01, 2010
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780571235537
• | ISBN-10: 0571235530