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-
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Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography.
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Other Title |
Life of Tom Waits |
ISBN |
0767927087: $29.95 |
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9780767927086: $29.95 |
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