LOWSIDE OF THE ROAD: A LIFE OF TOM WAITS

Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from "Closing Time" to "Orphan
s", "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 ac
hieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider mystique.
From his perilous 'jazzbo' years in '70s Los Angeles to the multiple-Grammy win
ner of recent years - by way of such shape-shifting '80s albums as Swordfishtrom
bones - this exhaustive biography charts Waits' life step-by-step and album-by-a
lbum.