Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits: Barney Hoskyns
Synopsis:
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 1970s 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.
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Tags:
- Categorised as:
- Music, Stage & Screen
- Sub-categories:
- Popular Music
- People & Characters:
- Tom Waits
- Genres & Themes:
- Americana; Icons; Mavericks; Rock 'n' Roll
- Related Articles:
- Q & A: Barney Hoskyns on Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits
- Selected edition:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9780571235520
- Published:
- 05.03.2009
- No of pages:
- 640
