Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits
Häftad bok. Faber & Faber. 2010. 610 sidor.
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Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary forty-year career from Closing Time to Orphans and beyond, 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 has achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider mystique. Affectionate and penetrating, and based on a combination of assiduous research and deep critical insight, this is an outstanding investigation of a notoriously private artist and performer - the definitive account to date of Tom Waits' life and work as he nears his sixtieth birthday.
'An utterly fascinating, beady-eyed portrait of a complex, tormented, evasive superstar who for years concealed a dazzling independence behind the schtick of a shambolic loser.
John Walsh, Independent
'Engrossing! Allan Jones, Uncut
"Waits could not have found a more respectful, sympathetic and knowledgeable biographer if he'd chosen him himself' Mick Brown, The Word
'Wonderfully insightful about songs and their origins! Tim Adams, Observer.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780571235537
- Titel
- Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits
- Författare
- Hoskyns, Barney
- Förlag
- Faber & Faber
- Utgivningsår
- 2010
- Omfång
- 610 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 126 x 198 mm Ryggbredd 40 mm
- Vikt
- 510 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- 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.