Lowside of the Road

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.