Warning Your browser version is unsupported. Please update for best experience. Sixto Rodriguez, the legendary icon responsible for ageless classics such as "Sugar Man," "I Wonder" and "Climb up on My Music," is set to release a new live album comprised of recordings taken from his wildly successful tour of Australia. The legendary self-taught guitarist's love affair with Australia is well documented, and 'Rodriguez Rocks: Live In Australia' perfectly captures the chemistry that the platinum selling artist shares with his fans down under.
Overshadowed in the 70s But if Rodriguez was so good, why did his records initially flop? But the label had just signed another soulful, largely acoustic artist who perhaps had a little more star potential: Bill Withers.
Or it could be because the pop world in was too much an embarrassment of riches? Brilliant songwriting was no longer enough to guarantee an audience, just ask Nick Drake if you could , Judee Sill or Arthur Lee, whose masterpieces were also flying under the radar. What the film missed But as many viewers have pointed out, the movie got one thing wrong. His songs were getting covered as early as , the first artist to do so being Susan Cowsill, the former child star and future member of Continental Drifters who was then beginning a solo career.
It really began in Australia, where he toured successfully behind a compilation album, Rodriguez At His Best. This was the album most often counterfeited in South Africa, where Rodriguez first toured in , putting those death rumors to rest. When he played there for the documentary, then, it was largely for an audience that already knew he was back. Suddenly, listeners had a chance to discover an earlys body of work and to hear it fresh, with no nostalgic associations.
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Sign Up to Last. At least five artists share the name Rodriquez. He was named 'Sixto' pronounced seex-toe because he was the sixth child in his family. Rodriguez's parents were middle-class immigrants from Mexico, who left in the s. In most of his songs he takes a political stance on the cruelties facing the inner city poor. In under the name Rod Riguez he released the single "I'll Slip Away" through the small lab… read more.
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