
Searching For Sugar Man - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a Rock album by Rodriguez, originally released in 2012. On Gatefold: 18 pressings tracked, owned by 4 collectors.
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Folk Rock
- stripped-back
- bittersweet
- urban
About
After releasing two commercially unsuccessful psychedelic folk records in the ’70s, Detroit singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez disappeared into a life of demolition work. Over the years, those records gained a cult following. But it wasn’t until the internet age that Rodriguez's daughter discovered her dad's genuine star status in South Africa: His working-class-hero songs had become a soundtrack of the ’90s anti-apartheid movement. That spurred a proper reissue campaign of his long-out-of-print <i>Cold Fact</i> and <i>Coming From Reality</i> LPs—and the Oscar-winning 2012 documentary about that strange-but-true story, <i>Searching for Sugar Man</i>. This best-of collection is split evenly between Rodriguez’s two studio albums. “Sugar Man” is a woozy psych-pop single with the same withdrawal symptoms as The Velvet Underground’s “Waiting for the Man.” “Inner City Blues” is a portrait of Detroit as a decaying city on the brink of civil unrest, and “I Wonder” asks universal questions while looking inward. There are so many gems between these two albums, making this compilation the perfect dust-clearing companion to a remarkably compelling film.
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Tracklist
- 1Sugar Man
- 2Crucify Your Mind
- 3Cause
- 4I Wonder
- 5Like Janis
- 6This Is Not A Song, It's An Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues
- 7Can't Get Away
- 8I Think Of You
- 9Inner City Blues
- 10Sandrevan Lullaby - Lifestyles
- 11Street Boy
- 12A Most Disgusting Song
- 13I'll Slip Away
- 14Jane S. Piddy
Credits
Performers
- Bob BabbittBASS
- Gary TaylorBASS
- Andrew SmithDRUMS
- Andrew SteeleDRUMS
- Dennis CoffeyELECTRIC GUITAR
- Chris SpeddingGUITAR
- Carl RaetzHORNS
- Phil DennysKEYBOARDS
- Mike TheodoreKEYBOARDS ARRANGED BY
- Robert PangbornPERCUSSION
- Tony CarrPERCUSSION
- Detroit Symphony OrchestraSTRINGS
- Gordon StaplesSTRINGS
- Jimmy HorowitzVIOLIN
- Sixto RodriguezVOCALS ACOUSTIC GUITAR
4 collectors on Gatefold own this · 18 pressings tracked on Gatefold
