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Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Epigraph
- Prologue : The Only Thing Worse than Being Misunderstood
- Cast List
- Act One : Wasted and Wounded
- Act Two : Behind the Mule
- Appendix 1 : Waits’ Greatest Tracks: A Top 40 Countdown
- Appendix 2 : The Email Trail
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright