“Sugar Man” was one of the first original songs Rodriguez played for Coffey. He was always in these unusual places where most mainstream people wouldn’t be going.” And so were his songs. You went to a hooker bar, to a dive, to a god knows what. Theodore said, “When you went to see Rodriguez, you never went to a normal place. Even his idiosyncrasies seemed like an unusual selling point at first. Rodriguez was clearly a different kind of act, but his street-sharp observations and familiar voice appealed to them. The two were already heavily involved in Detroit’s soul and Motown scene, working with such artists as Little Willie John and Marvin Gaye. When production partners Mike Theodore and Dennis Coffey helped release Cold Fact in 1970, they thought they had a hit record. There’s still three more months left in the year, but the rediscovery of Rodriguez and his modest debut masterpiece may just be the most pleasant surprise of 2008. With its release, baby boomers will scratch their heads and ask themselves why they had never heard his name before, while their kids might finally be able to connect with the anti-establishment and anti-war themes that defined the hippie generation and seem just as relevant today. So after decades of semi-stardom in the eastern hemisphere, it’s only now that Rodriguez’s debut album is being given a much-deserved second chance in the US via Light in the Attic. Somehow his debut album Cold Fact became a cult success in Australia and, more prominently, in apartheid-era South Africa, where he was revered to the same degree as Jimi Hendrix. When neither of his two proper albums found an audience in the US, he went back to factory work to essentially “keep the blood circulatin'”.Īnd this is where his story really begins. His lyrics, which read like some drug-riddled street manifesto, are grittier than the poetic tales spun by Dylan, Donovan, or Croce. Far from being an observer in some Greenwich Village coffee shop, he actually lived in the streets among the pushers, the peddlers, and all the other shadowy figures that inhabit his songs. Maybe Clive can sort it out, and I apologize to him for jumping into the conversation too soon.Born to working-class Mexican parents and raised in the once-flourishing industrial center of Detroit, Michigan, Sixto (“Sees-toe”) Rodriguez does not fit the mold of most 1960s singer-songwriters. Do 'D-ick' and 'I' refer to the same person, the narrator?- I am not really sure whether the narrator is speaking of himself in the 3rd person as Dick or whether Dick is his rival for Jane's affections., because I don't understand how the writer is using the 'Dick & Jane' theme (see #2) here.
BALLAD OF JANE LYRICS MEANING MOVIE
There have also been many take-offs on the story (adult humor) and a movie of the same title.ģ. It was the first textbook we received in 1st grade. What does 'to have fun with D-ick and Jane' mean in the song? Need more explanations.- 'Fun with Dick and Jane' is the quintessential traditional elementary school reading textbook in America. I find it a little confusing because- see my answer to #2.Ģ. Having looked at the lyrics again, Dick may be the bridegroom and the narrator another person who also loved her. Does 'reception' mean wedding reception?- Yes.ĭoes 'their' mean the bride(i.e.
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