Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits

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.

O noua editie ca parte a celor mai bune hituri Faber - carti care au scris scrierea despre muzica in directii noi si interesante pentru secolul al XXI-lea. Extinderea carierei extraordinare de 40 de ani a lui Tom Waits, de la Closing Time la Orphans, Lowside of the Road este versiunea unica a lui Barney Hoskyns asupra uneia dintre marile enigme ale rockului.