Lowside of the Road: A life of Tom Waits
Hoskyns, B. (2010). Lowside of the Road: A life of Tom Waits. London: Faber.
ISBN 9780571235537
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TOM WAITS BARNEY HOSKINS 9780571235537 FANBOY P408 FANBOY P457 P467 GREAT AMERICAN ENTERTAINER
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What follows is just some notes I took while reading the book I had saved in an MS Word Doc...
TOM WAITS
P109 “Mike Melvoin Saw Waits’ Persona Not As A Dissimulation But As A Round-The-Clock Performance Art…” Drawing Parallels With Prince [Melvoins Daughter Wendy Was With
Prince’s Band Revolution In The 1980s]
P148 “You Don’t Go To Hell, You Go To A Soundcheck”
P309 Jockey Full of Bourbon [Bonamassa; Dead March]
P316 Keith Richards Two Tracks “Union Square” “Blind Love”
P328 Steppenwolf Theatre Company
P356 Jimmie Rodgers 1950s “Honeycomb” “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine” vs Singing Brakeman 1920
P370 “Marking the onset of The Traditional Mid-Life Crisis, the Forties were when the Proverbial Shit Hit The Fan – when you either sorted through your Emotional Baggage or Drowned In It.”
P392 “Bone Machine” Positive Review Paragraph – Standout Track “Goin’ Out West” See
Also P394 “That Feel” Co-Written Keith Richards
P405 Edward Mordrake Urban Myth Like LA Lifestyle Myth “Chained Together For Life
[Poor Edward: Johnny Eck From Film “Freaks”]
-- Pp408-409 “With His Feet Planted In A Pair Of Old Boots And A Nest Of Russet Hair Dancing Atop His Creased, Kindly Face, He Looks Like He’s Just Wandered In From His Backyard After A Long Afternoon Wrestling With Some Farm Equipment. His Strong, Gnarled Fingers – Several Adorned With Chunky Silver Rings – Are Grey-Brown And Calloused.” Note UK Spelling Of Grey…
P413 Gavin Bryars Recorded a Tramp In London singing inspired “Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet”
P426 Charlie Musslewhite
P437ff [Or P435ff] Mule Variations As A Blues Album Wins Best Contemporary Folk Grammy. P437 Photo With John Hammond And Charlie Musslewhite – Ref “Orphans” CD
-- P457 “A Man Of Rare Natural Humility In A Business Rife With Narcissistic Egomaniacs, He Kept A Constant Check On Tendancies To Self Aggrandizement.”
-- P468 On Taking The Hammersmith Apollo [London] Stage For The 23-Nov-2004 Concert “…Waits – Part Pigeon-Toed Lee Evans, Part Max Schrek With Maracas – Is A Sight For Jaded Eyes.”
P474 Stones Homage “Lowdown”
-- P482 “I’d surmise that You Could Count The Negative Reviews Of Waits’ Recent Albums On Two Hands.” [Ref: Real Gone]
Pp482,483,484 British Reviewers may not be so kind even though they may identify as Fans Or Fanatics Of Waits’ Music
-- P484 Hoskyns’ explanation for selecting a Waits’ Top Forty detailed in Appendix 1.
P488 Actor Steve Martin on Privacy after he was asked to Sign A Heartbeat Print otherwise a Personal Medical Record
-- P489 “Waits’ Deepest Conviction Was That Truth Itself Was Overrated.” Had Taken A Lead From Mentors, Like: Bob Dylan.
-- P490 Orneriness Vs Humility
-- P492 Fanboy Mark Everett of The Eels
-- P493. “Do You Think It’s About Creating A Mystique?”
-- P494 Hoskyns Identifies as An Admirer… Prepared To Travel From London To Edinburgh For A Concert
-- P501 “…Our Hero…”
INDEX PP 575-609
NOTES TO PAGES PP 515-573
