Lowside Of The Road, Barney Hoskyns
Lowside Of The Road, Barney Hoskyns
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Lowside Of The Road
A Life of Tom Waits

Author: Barney Hoskyns

Narrator: Nick Landrum

Unabridged: 18 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Talking Music

Published: 04/30/2025


Synopsis

With a career spanning over fifty years, Tom Waits remains one of rock’s great enigmas; a chameleon-like survivor who, like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, has achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider mystique.  Lowside of the Road, by Barney Hoskyns, offers a unique, affectionate and penetrating portrait of Waits spanning from Closing Time to Orphans, and beyond.  Based on extensive research and deep critical insight, Hoskyns' definitive account of Waits' life and work is an outstanding exploration of this notoriously private artist and performer.

About Barney Hoskyns

Barney Hoskyns is a music historian, editorial director of the online music-journalism library Rock's Backpages, and author of Hotel California, Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits, and an oral history of Led Zeppelin. He lives in London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Amanda on September 27, 2009

An extremely unauthorized bio of Tom Waits, this book leads us from Waits' beginnings at the Troubador up until the Glitter and Doom tour this past year. Honestly, I mostly never really want to know the person behind my favorite music and Waits has become one of my top favorites. I don't know, I gues......more

Goodreads review by Eugene on October 28, 2012

Lowside of the Road is an unauthorized biography of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns, published in 2009. I'm going to come clean and say upfront that I haven't read many biographies I really loved and I don't read that many biographies period. I really liked the Patty Smith book, Just Kids, and although......more

Goodreads review by Jim on July 31, 2012

I haven't spent much time with biographies, so I wanted to pick an interesting one. And I did. Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits. If you're not familiar with the artist and actor, he's had an interesting life, and even though this wasn't an "authorized" biography, Barney Hoskyns does a decent......more

Goodreads review by Bill on May 19, 2017

For music to mean anything to me it has to reach me on an emotional level and few singer-songwriters have managed to do that. I rarely use the word genius to describe a musician and my list is a short one; Lennon/McCartney, Dylan, Roger Waters, Johnny Cash, and the least recognized and subject of th......more

Goodreads review by Tim on May 08, 2012

When I was a student in apartheid era South Africa, in the 1980s, it was hard to come by information about what was happening just over the hill. To find out personal details of completely obscure (to South Africans) musicians like Waits or Cohen was near impossible. No media here carried stories on......more