Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles

by Alex Harvey

A gritty, smoke-filled, and boozy account of musician Tom Waits's formative decade in Los Angeles.

Song Noir examines the formative first decade of Tom Waits's career, when he lived, wrote, and recorded nine albums in Los Angeles: from his soft, folk-inflected debut, Closing Time in 1973, to the abrasive, surreal Swordfishtrombones in 1983. Starting his songwriting career in the seventies, Waits absorbed Los Angeles's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789146631
• ISBN13: 9781789146639
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.2"