His appreciation down under predates his international fame. Its crushingly good stuff, filled with tales of bad drugs, lost love, and itchyfooted songs about life in late 60s innercity america. The album is cold fact, and whats more intriguing is that its maker, a shadowy figure known as rodriguez was, for many years, lost too. Rodriguez cold fact 1970 us, superb folk psych, 2008 remaster edition dipped sweetly in the psychedelia of the sixties, this the first album from a mysteriously unknown artist, mingles simply folk guitar with astonishing lyrics about drugs, depression and inner city blues. With rodriguez, stephen sugar segerman, dennis coffey, mike theodore. Jeff monn, paul martin, john braheny, and billy joe becoat were some of them, and sixto rodriguez was another on his 1970 lp, cold fact. Imagine an aboveaverage dylanesque street busker managing to record an album with fairly full and imaginative arrangements, and. The album sold very poorly in the united states rodriguez was himself an unknown in the u. The album is cold fact, and whats more intriguing is that its maker. Sixto rodriguezcold fact full album zip, registration key to activate baraha 10. Such is the demand, that both cold fact, and the second album.
I wonder how many times youve been had and i wonder how many plans have gone bad i wonder how many times you had sex and i wonder do you know wholl be next i wonder, i. It is notable that while the album sold very poorly in the. In the same year brian currin established climb up on my music, a tribute site to the life and works of rodriguez. Sixto rodriguez coming from reality full album free. In 1966 he released the single entitled ill slip away through the small record label impact. Cold fact is a clear, good folksingersongwriter album. Long on talent and short on patience for the man, rodriguez was one of those folk singers that straddled that.
Two south africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, rodriguez. Sixto rodriguez sugar man complete discography 20 download torrent. Sign up to see what your friends like 20102020 all rights are reserved. He was born in detroit to mexican immigrant parents and. Rodriguez biography, albums, streaming links allmusic. Detroit resident sixto rodriguez recorded this album in 1969 and it allbut disappeared thereafter, only to become a countercultural touchstone in south africa years later supposedly due to word of mouth. Sixto diaz rodriguez is a mexicanamerican folk musician, born on july 10, 1942 in detroit, michigan. Sixto rodriguez cold fact album spirit of rock webzine es. It was released in the usa on the sussex label in march 1970. Sixto rodriguez, in case you havent heard of him, was a detroit singersongwriter, an inner city poet, for whom great things were predicted in the early 1970s.
A stirring tale of how a zero in the usa became a hero amongst liberal whites in. Gun sales are soaringhousewives find life boringdivorce the only answersmoking causes cancer, says the. He recorded cold fact his debut album in 1969, and released it in march 1970. Rodriguez released the solo album cold fact on the sussex label in 1970.
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The bluesfunk style of his overtly sociopolitical lyrics gained him little popularity in the us, where he once performed onstage with hispanic activists the brown berets. Rodriguez recorded cold fact his debut album in 1969, and released it in march 1970. Sixto rodriguez sugar man complete discography 20 description. All songs by sixto rodriguez musicians rodriguez vocals, acoustic guitar. Sixto rodriguez cold fact full album zip vertieconlipp. Download sixto rodriguez sugar man download torrent.
Because our mp3s have no drm, you can play it on any device that supports. In 1969 he went back into the studio and the cold fact album was. His music career initially proved disappointing in the united states, but unknown to rodriguez his albums became extremely successful and influential in south africa, where he is believed to have sold more records than elvis presley. In 1997, stephen sugar segerman set up a website, called the great rodriguez hunt, with the intention of finding any information about the mysterious us musician of cold fact fame. However, his work became extremely successful in australia and influential in south africa, although, he was mistakenly rumored in that country to have. Prince his english alias derived from the spanish sixto diaz, rodriguez forenames, the. A decade ago, he was rediscovered working on a detroit building site, unaware that his defining album had become not only a cult classic, but for the people of south africa, a beacon of revolution. Listen free to rodriguez cold fact sugar man, only good for conversation and more. His first album, cold fact 1970, was supposed to be his breakthrough but failed to sell. Sixto diaz rodriguez, known professionally as rodriguez born july 10, 1942, is an american singersongwriter from detroit, michigan.
Cold fact forms the basis of the oscar nominated documentary searching for sugarman the incredible story of how rodriguez, forgotten in his home to of detroit, became a superstarin apartheid south africa. It was released in the united states on the sussex label in march 1970. However, his music found a resonance with a fanbase in south africa, where he became somewhat of a. All songs written by sixto rodriguez, except 5, 10 by gary harvey, mike theodore and dennis coffey. In the early seventies, sixto rodriguez, a detroit native born to mexican immigrants who goes by his surname.
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