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Rodriguez (Music)
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The enigmatic Sixto Diaz Rodriguez (born July 10, 1942), commonly referred to as simply Rodriguez, is a Detroit-based Folk Rock Singer-Songwriter who cut his teeth performing in various clubs and bars, building up a repertoire with haunting, acoustic-based songs with sharp lyrics of cynical social commentary. Thanks to friends and session players Dennis Coffey and Mike Theodore, Rodriguez eventually found his way to Clarence Avant, who made him the first signee of Sussex Records. Rodriguez recorded an album’s worth of material on an acoustic guitar, and was generously overdubbed with various psychedelic effects, strings, and other instruments. The result was Cold Fact.... which pretty much made no commercial headway. A follow-up album, Coming From Reality, met a similar fate, and Rodriguez was dropped from the label. To make matters worse, it has since been alleged that Avant may have cheated Rodriguez out of royalties. At that point, he decided to hang up his guitar and start doing construction work to support his family, and even applying to go to university. To Rodriguez’ surprise, though, he was asked to do some concerts in Australia near the end of the 70s, coinciding with the rerelease of the album, and briefly enjoyed a resurgence of attention there, but it was soon back to Detroit to be a provider once more.But that was nothing compared to what came in 1998.It turned out that, in the rough political climate of South Africa, many people there had embraced Rodriguez as an anti-establishment icon, considering him in the same esteem as people like Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley. The Academy Award winning documentary, Searching for Sugar Man, details the effort of some South African fans to find out what truly happened to Sixto Rodriguez, as he was long thought dead by suicide. As fate would have it, one of Rodriguez' three daughters stumbled upon a fan site those same fans put up in 1997, and she contacted them with the news that her father was, in fact, very much alive, which was a delightful surprise. One thing led to another, and a concert tour of six shows was booked in South Africa, and was a huge success, leaving Rodriguez awestruck to find that he had left a huge legacy after all.The legend of Rodriguez continues to spread to this day, and he still tours once in a while, even taking his family on tour with him.Discography 1970 — Cold Fact 1971 — Coming From Reality 1981 — Rodriguez Alive (live album, exclusive to Australia) 1998 — Live Fact (live album, exclusive to South Africa) 2012 — Searching for Sugar Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (doubles as a Greatest Hits Album) 2016 — Rodriguez Rocks: Live In Australia (live album, exclusive to Australia) | |
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Protest Song | |
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Protest Song: Quite a lot of them, and they're not exactly subtle. | |
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Cool Shades | |
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Cool Shades: More like Iconic Shades by this point; he rarely performs without them. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: As he tells it in his music. Especially "Cause." | |
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List Song | |
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List Song: Everything Rodriguez saw as examples of society falling apart - pollution, crime, high divorce rate, smoking causing cancer, politicians faltering, and more - is crammed into "This is Not a Song, It’s an Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues" and ticked off one by one, in what amounts to a two-minute rant in folk music form. | |
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Ode to Intoxication | |
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Ode to Intoxication: "Sugar Man." | |
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Singer-Songwriter | |
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Singer-Songwriter: In the classic, Dylan-esque mould. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Coming From Reality ends with "Cause," a song about never seeing anything in return for all the work you've done. Fittingly, it's also the last song Rodriguez recorded before he quit music. If he hadn't been rediscovered, that would've been a Downer Ending for his whole career. | |
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Sue Donym | |
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Sue Donym: His debut single was credited to Rod Riguez. | |
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Non-Appearing Title: "Like Janis" note opening line: "And you measure for wealth" and "Jane S. Piddy" note opening line: "Now you sit there thinking" on Cold Fact, which led to them getting mixed up in various reissues. | |
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Something Blues | |
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Something Blues: "This Is Not a Song, It's an Outburst: Or, the Establishment Blues." It's really more folk than blues. | |
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Spoken Word in Music | |
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Spoken Word in Music: "A Most Disgusting Song." | |
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Break-Up Song | |
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Break-Up Song: "I Wonder" is a pretty bitter example, and even has a bit of Slut-Shaming. "Crucify Your Mind" is a slightly more elegant example. | |
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Elvis Lives | |
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Elvis Lives: It's not like Sixto was actually hiding, but the South Africans were convinced that he was dead due to all the rumors. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: Talks about playing in "faggot bars" in "A Most Disgusting Song." Using the word "sex" in "I Wonder" was considered very scandalous in South Africa when he was first heard there. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: If you get the Record Store Day 7", then you'll hear a live recording of the previously unreleased song, "I'm Gonna Live Until I Die," which he prefaces with some words of wisdom: | |
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Dr. Feelgood | |
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Dr. Feelgood: The titular "Sugar Man" is this. | |
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Album Title Drop | |
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Album Title Drop: From "This Is Not A Song, It’s An Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues": And he drops it again in "Inner City Blues." | |
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Drugs Are Bad | |
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Drugs Are Bad: The song "Street Boy" only implies this, but based on the life of the titular 'street boy,' it's pretty obvious what he's doing out there. The lyrics of "Sugar Man" superficially seem positive toward drugs, but his desperate vocal and the creepy edge of the arrangement (especially the discordant bridge) are what end up finally conveying this message in the song. | |
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Last-Name Basis | |
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Last-Name Basis: You don’t hear many people calling him Sixto. | |
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