The career of Sixto Rodriguez amounted to somewhat less than a scrawled footnote in musical history. The son of Mexican immigrants, his debut album, Cold Fact, was released in 1970 to a barely perceptible shrug. But as Rodriguez got on with his life, Cold Fact slowly developed a life of its own, picking up a word-of-mouth audience in the southern hemisphere, particularly in South Africa (and NZ).

Cold Fact isn’t quite a lost masterpiece, but there are moments where you wonder how on earth Rodriguez managed to escape wider recognition for so long: ‘Crucify Your Mind’, ‘Forget It’ and ‘I Wonder’, in particular, nag away like half-remembered classics. His voice has the nervy, accusatory edge of mid-Sixties Dylan, while the music resembles a funky John Wesley Harding: tight li

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