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Author Hoskyns, Barney.

Title Lowside of the road : a life of Tom Waits / Barney Hoskyns.

Publication Info. New York : Broadway Books, 2009.
200u.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY WAITS    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B WAITS    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  782.42 HOSKYNS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  780.92 WAI    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Biographies  B WAITS    Check Shelf
Description xxix, 609 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note Originally published: London : Faber and Faber, Ltd.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 515 - 573) and index.
Contents Prologue: The only thing worse than being misunderstood -- Cast list -- Act One: Wasted and wounded. Some ways about me that just aren't right -- Home I'll never be -- Understanding, sympathy, and encouragement -- In character -- Knee-deep in grunge -- Real romantic dreamers stuck in the wrong time zone -- Ready to scream -- Lucky guy -- Act two: Behind the mule. Trying to arrive at some type of cathartic epiphany in terms of my bifocals -- Wreck collections -- Something for all the family -- In a suit when you dream -- Bones, cemeteries, and dirty blood -- The crooked tree and the straight tree -- Rust never sleeps -- He's not there -- Coda: Take it with me when I go -- Appendix 1: Waits' greatest tracks: A top 40 countdown -- Apendix 2: The email trial.
Summary 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 Wiat'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 the 1970's LA to such shape-shifting albums as Swordfishtrombones and Rain Dogs to the Grammy Award winners of recent years, this definitive biography charts Wait's life and art step by step, album by album. (from book jacket)
Subject Waits, Tom, 1949-
Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography.
Other Title Life of Tom Waits
ISBN 0767927087: $29.95
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