LOWSIDE OF THE ROAD PB B FORMAT – BARNEY HOSKYNS

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.