Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns

Hoskyns has produced a meticulous work to reveal the man beneath the myth, says Tim AdamsTom Waits presents a double bind for a biographer. His life has been the subject of such mythologising that you feel a bit of truth wouldn't go amiss; but then the myths are so entertaining, why would you want to spoil them? That Barney Hoskyns has overcome this to produce these meticulous 600 pages is testament to his NME-inspired sense of rock-writing as a calling. His piecing together of Waits's formative...

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