With his trademark growl, carnival-madman persona, haunting
music, and unforgettable lyrics, Tom Waits is one of the most
revered and critically acclaimed singer-songwriters alive today.
After beginning his career on the margins of the 1970s Los Angeles
rock scene, Waits has spent the last thirty years carving out a
place for himself among such greats as Bob Dylan and Neil Young.
Like them, he is a chameleonic survivor who has achieved long-term
success while retaining cult credibility and outsider mystique. But
although his songs can seem deeply personal and somewhat
autobiographical, fans still know very little about the man
himself. Notoriously private, Waits has consistently and
deliberately blurred the line between fact and fiction, public and
private personas, until it has become impossible to delineate
between truth and self-fabricated legend.
Lowside of the Road is the first serious biography to cut
through the myths and make sense of the life and career of this
beloved icon. Barney Hoskyns has gained unprecedented access to
Waits’s inner circle and also draws on interviews he has done with
Waits over the years. Spanning his extraordinary forty-year career
from Closing Time to Orphans, from his perilous “jazzbo” years in
1970s LA to such shape-shifting albums as Swordfishtrombones and
Rain Dogs to the Grammy Award winners of recent years, this
definitive biography charts Waits’s life and art step by step,
album by album.
Barney Hoskyns has written a rock biography—much like the
subject himself—unlike any other. It is a unique take on one of
rock’s great enigmas.
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