A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.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.
Publisher: Faber & FaberISBN: 9780571351336Number of pages: 640Weight: 522 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 38 mmEdition: Main - Faber Greatest Hits
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