LOWSIDE OF THE ROAD: A LIFE OF TOM WAITS by Barney Hoskyns ( 9780571235537 )

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Title:

LOWSIDE OF THE ROAD: A LIFE OF TOM WAITS

By:

Barney Hoskyns

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0571235530

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9780571235537

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Publisher:

FABER & FABER

Pub. date:

1 May, 2010

Pages:

640

Description:

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.

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 '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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