RODRIGUEZ - COMING FROM REALITY - LP - BEAUT & VERY SCARCE

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I OFFER FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE THIS

VERY SCARCE ALBUM OF

SIXTO RODRIGUEZ 

COMING FROM REALITY

Rodríguez was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was named Sixto (pronounced "seex-too") because he was the sixth child in his family. Rodríguez's parents were working class. His father was an immigrant who had come to the US from Mexico in the 1920s, and his mother was of mixed Native American and European descent. His family joined the larger wave of Mexicans journeying to the midwest to work in major industries. Mexicans in this area faced several periods of intense alienation and marginalization. In most of his songs he takes a political stance on the cruelties facing the inner city poor.

In 1967, under the name Rod Riguez, he released the single "I'll Slip Away" through the small label Impact. He did not produce anything for another three years until he was signed to Sussex Records, an offshoot of Buddah records. After the move to Sussex, he changed his professional name to simply Rodríguez and recorded two albums with Sussex, Cold Fact in 1970 and Coming from Reality in 1971. But after both sold very few copies in the US, he was quickly dropped from the label, which folded in 1975. At the time of his release from the contract, Rodríguez was in the process of completing a third album, which has yet to be released.

After this happened, Sixto discontinued his music career and stayed in Detroit. There, he worked in several industries that revolved around manual labor, such as demolition, yet always stayed close to a state of poverty. Having remained politically active and motivated to improve the lives of the city's working-class inhabitants, Sixto registered and ran for city council in Detroit in 1989.

It was revealed in 2013 that Sixto has written 30 new songs and is in discussions with Steve Rowland, the producer behind some of his old albums. "I've written about thirty new songs", Sixto told Rolling Stone magazine. "He told me to send him a couple of tapes, so I'm gonna do that. I certainly want to look him up, because now he's full of ideas."

After failing to make an impact in North America, Rodríguez gave up his career as a musician. Although he was relatively unknown in his home country, by the mid-1970s, his albums were starting to gain airplay in South Africa, Botswana, Rhodesia, New Zealand, and Australia.

After imported copies of his Sussex albums ran dry, an Australian record label, Blue Goose Music, bought the Australian rights to his back catalogue in the mid-1970s. Blue Goose released his two studio albums, plus a compilation album, At His Best, featuring unreleased recordings from 1973: "Can't Get Away", "I'll Slip Away" (a re-recording of his first single), and "Street Boy".

With a new buzz around Rodriguez, in 1979 he toured Australia with the Mark Gillespie Band as support. Two shows from the tour were later released on the Australian-only album Alive—the title being a play on the rumors, caused by his public obscurity, that he had died years earlier. After the 1979 tour, he returned to Australia for a final tour in 1981 with Midnight Oil before quietly slipping back into normal life.

Unbeknown to Rodríguez, At His Best went platinum in South Africa, which at one stage was the major disc-press interest supplying his music to the rest of the world. Additionally, some of his songs came to serve as anti-apartheid anthems in South Africa, where his work influenced many musicians who protested the government. It has been reported that anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko was a Rodríguez fan.

In 1991, both his albums were released on CD in South Africa for the first time, which helped perpetuate his fame. Even in South Africa, however, few details of his life were known to his fans, and it was widely rumored and believed that Rodríguez had killed himself during a concert in the 1970s.

Despite the magnitude of his success abroad, Rodríguez's fame in South Africa had remained completely unknown to him until 1996, when his eldest daughter came across a website dedicated to him. After coming into contact with the authors of the website and learning of his long-standing fame in the country, Sixto went on his first South African tour, playing six concerts in front of thousands of fans. A documentary about the tour, Dead Men Don't Tour: Rodríguez in South Africa 1998, was later screened on SABC TV in 2001. Later he played in Sweden before returning to South Africa in 2001 and 2005.

In April 2007 and 2010, he returned to Australia to play the East Coast & Roots Music Festival, as well as shows in Melbourne and Sydney. His song "Sugar Man" was featured in the 2006 film Candy, starring Heath Ledger. 

In addition to concerts in Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand, Rodríguez's tour schedule for 2013 includes his most notable US concerts to date, such as a stint at the Beacon Theatre in New York City in April as well as other concerts in Europe. He played on the Park Stage at the Glastonbury Festival, England, in June 2013. On July 5, 2013, Rodriguez opened the prestigious Montreux Jazz festival.

SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA

AN AUST ISSUE ON BLUE GOOSE LABEL RELEASED IN 1971 - MLF 269

THE FRONT LAMINATED SLEEVE LOOKS REALLY LOVELY. THE OPENING EDGE, THE SEAMS AND THE SPINE ARE CLEAN AND SHARP. THERE ARE THREE CREASES IN THE SPINE AND THERE ARE THREE LIGHT CREASES IN THE BOTTOM SEAM NEAR THE OPENING. THERE IS A WRINKLE IN THE LAMINATION ACROSS HIS LEFT LEG AND THERE IS A LITTLE LIGHT RING WEAR AND A LITTLE LIGHT STAINING ON THE BACK. 

THE SHINY VINYL IS BEAUTIFUL - ALMOST LIKE NEW - JUST A FEW VERY LIGHT MARKS IN THE RUN OFF ON SIDE ONE 

PLAYS LIKE IT LOOKS - BEAUTIFUL - LOUD AND CLEAN.

THE LABELS ARE BEAUT TOO - JUST ONE LIGHT SPINDLE MARK ON SIDE TWO - NO WRITING - NO STICKERS.

TRACKS ARE:

CLIMB UP ON MY MUSIC == A MOST DISGUSTING SONG == I THINK OF YOU == HEIKKI'S SUBURBIA BUS TOUR == SILVER WORDS == SANDREVIN LULLABY - LIFESTYLES == TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN == IT STARTED OUT SO NICE == HALFWAY UP THE STAIRS == CAUSE. 

HARD TO FIND A COPY OF THIS

VERY SCARCE ALBUM

IN ANY CONDITION

THIS ONE HAS A REALLY LOVELY SLEEVE AND

THE SHINY VINYL PLAYS BEAUTIFUL.

HAPPY BIDDING FANS

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