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　　With his trademark growl, carnival-madman persona, haunting
music, and unforgettable lyrics, Tom Waits is one of the most
revered and critically acclaimed singer-songwriters alive today.
After beginning his career on the margins of the 1970s Los Angeles
rock scene, Waits has spent the last thirty years carving out a
place for himself among such greats as Bob Dylan and Neil Young.
Like them, he is a chameleonic survivor who has achieved long-term
success while retaining cult credibility and outsider mystique. But
although his songs can seem deeply personal and somewhat
autobiographical, fans still know very little about the man
himself. Notoriously private, Waits has consistently and
deliberately blurred the line between fact and fiction, public and
private personas, until it has become impossible to delineate
between truth and self-fabricated legend.
　　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 Waits’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 1970s
LA to such shape-shifting albums as Swordfishtrombones and Rain
Dogs to the Grammy Award winners of recent years, this definitive
biography charts Waits’s life and art step by step, album by
album.
　　Barney Hoskyns has written a rock biography—much like the subject
himself—unlike any other. It is a unique take on one of rock’s
great enigmas.
　　

　　With his trademark growl, carnival-madman persona, haunting
music, and unforgettable lyrics, Tom Waits is one of the most
revered and critically acclaimed singer-songwriters alive today.
After beginning his career on the margins of the 1970s Los Angeles
rock scene, Waits has spent the last thirty years carving out a
place for himself among such greats as Bob Dylan and Neil Young.
Like them, he is a chameleonic survivor who has achieved long-term
success while retaining cult credibility and outsider mystique. But
although his songs can seem deeply personal and somewhat
autobiographical, fans still know very little about the man
himself. Notoriously private, Waits has consistently and
deliberately blurred the line between fact and fiction, public and
private personas, until it has become impossible to delineate
between truth and self-fabricated legend.

　　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
Waits’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
1970s LA to such shape-shifting albums as Swordfishtrombones and
Rain Dogs to the Grammy Award winners of recent years, this
definitive biography charts Waits’s life and art step by step,
album by album.

　　Barney Hoskyns has written a rock biography—much like the
subject himself—unlike any other. It is a unique take on one of
rock’s great enigmas.

　　Barney Hoskyns is cofounder and editorial director of the
online rock-journalism library Rock’s Backpages
(), and author of several books
including Across the Great Divide: The Band and America (1993),
Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the LA
Canyons (2005), and the newly reissued Waiting for the Sun: A Rock
and Roll History of Los Angeles. A former U.S. correspondent for
Mojo, Hoskyns writes for Uncut, the Observer Music Monthly, and
other U.K. publications, and has contributed to Vogue, Rolling
Stone, and GQ. He lives in southwest London.

List of Illustrations
Prologue: The Only Thing Worse than Being
 Misunderstood
Cast List
ACT ONE: WASTED AND WOUNDED
 Some Ways about Me that lust 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
7 Ready to Scream
8 Lucky Guy
ACT TWO: BEHIND THE MULE
1 Trying to Arrive at Some Type of Cathartic Epiphany
  in Terms of My Bifocals
2 Wreck Collections
3 Something for All the Family
 4 In a Suit When You Dream
 5 Bones, Cemeteries, and Dirty Blood
 6 The Crooked Tree and the Straight Tree
……

　　Absolutely outstanding” –Danny Baker, BBC　
　　”[This] book lights up and whirls like one of the greasy carnival
rides in Mr. Wait’s own sprawling oeuvre” –The New York
Times　　
　　Hoskyn’s superlative overview of one of America’s major (though
idiosyncratic) popular artists will likely stand as the best book
on his life”–Library Journal (starred review)　　
　　”Hoskyns persevered in writing the first Waits biography, netting
fascination firsthand stories, terrific photographs, and
fanatically detailed information about studio sessions and
concerts…the result is a respectful, entertaining, and revelatory
portrait set within a vivid cultural context.”–Booklist　　
　　”It’s about time [Waits] received biographical homage from a rock
writer of the stature of Hoskyns.”–Stephen Poole, The
Guardian　　
　　”Comprehensive and judicious. [Waits] could not have found a more
respectful, sympathetic and knowledgeable biographer if he’d chosen
him himself.”–Mick Brown, The Word　　
　　”Thanks to his diligence.  His Californian connections and
some magazine interviews he conducted long ago with Waits, Hoskyn’s
life comes across as convincingly lifelike.”–Robert Sandall, The
Sunday Times