Lowside of the Road: A Life of 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 a outstanding investigation of a notoriously private artist and performer – the definitive account to date of Tom Waits” life and work.