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Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits

Barney Hoskyns     Availability: Out of print
Format: Paperback - C format
Pages: 352
AUD $35.00 inc. GST
Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits

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The definitive biography of a notoriously private performer - the most up-close, comprehensive and affectionate book on Tom Waits.

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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 an outstanding investigation of a notoriously private artist and performer - the definitive account to date of Tom Waits' life and work.

About Barney Hoskyns

Barney Hoskyns is the co-founder and editorial director of online rock-journalism library Rock's Backpages (www.rocksbackpages.com), and author of several books including Across the Great Divide: The Band and America (1993), Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes, and the Sound of Los Angeles (1996), and Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons (2005). A former US correspondent for MOJO, Hoskyns writes for Uncut, The Observer Music Monthly and other UK publications, and has contributed to Vogue, Rolling Stone and GQ. He lives in southwest London.

ISBN: 9780571245031
Australian Pub.: April 2009
Edition: 1
Publisher: FABER
Imprint: FABER NON FICTION
Subject: Biography: general
Edition Number: 1