Rodriguez

Detroit's Sixto Rodriguez released a pair of early-Seventies folk-rock albums that vanished
here but achieved legendary status in South Africa, where his blunt lyrics about sex and
drugs and societal woes made him a countercultural icon. Reality, his second disc (1971),
employs London's pop elite to wrap the singer's Chicano rawness in plush strings. The
results are more Donovan than Dylan, and that's not a bad thing. One highlight: th... More >