Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits - Softcover
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.
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Comprehensive and judicious... [Waits] could not have found a more respectful, sympathetic and knowledgeable biographer if he'd chosen him himself. -- Mick Brown, Word Magazine
Hoskyns admirably sifts through the yarns and misinformation to deliver an engrossing portrait. ... -- Terry Staunton, Classic Rock
Just about the most absorbing satisfying and (whisper it) important biography of a modern artist that I can recall reading. Absolutely outstanding. -- Danny Baker
Meticulous... wonderfully insightful about songs and their origin... [Hoskyns'] piecing together of Waits' formative years... is a serious piece of investigative work. -- Tim Adams, The Observer
[An] engrossing, compendiously detailed biography... much enlivened by colorful anecdote and fastidious scrutiny of the formidable body of work Waits has accumulated. -- Allan Jones, Uncut
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Hoskyns admirably sifts through the yarns and misinformation to deliver an engrossing portrait. ... -- Terry Staunton, Classic Rock
Just about the most absorbing satisfying and (whisper it) important biography of a modern artist that I can recall reading. Absolutely outstanding. -- Danny Baker
Meticulous... wonderfully insightful about songs and their origin... [Hoskyns'] piecing together of Waits' formative years... is a serious piece of investigative work. -- Tim Adams, The Observer
[An] engrossing, compendiously detailed biography... much enlivened by colorful anecdote and fastidious scrutiny of the formidable body of work Waits has accumulated. -- Allan Jones, Uncut
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.
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- Publication date2010
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