Next Music announces the release of FOR RODRIGUEZ, a 21-track tribute album honoring Sixto Rodriguez, featuring South African artists and musicians who collaborated with him, bridging cultural legacies through his timeless themes of struggle and truth.
Category Archives: Cover Versions
Sugar Man by Joe Tatton Trio with Lucas De Mulder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlBvUT8OpYA&list=OLAK5uy_nyDfUElNgsWAtIEshhazPSCNWhhxN-VZw&index=5 https://open.spotify.com/track/6zBx6DAFFWtjtZxuHiOtfn?si=787c709c41fd4386 An organ-driven jazzy instrumental version of “Sugar Man” released by Joe Tatton Trio with Lucas De Mulder on guitar in July 2024. Off the album “Galáctico”. A random and incomplete selection of versions of Sugar Man available on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/playlist/47ibZn5Q4x0LTpRT9YJzws?si=e3b658bdfd5c44f6
Yul & Baz – Sugar Man (Sixto Rodriguez Cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RESpJDdTjZo « Sugar Baz », newly released by French electro producer Yul with Baz, a young Ukulele-playing singer, is a modern and sensuous cover version of the classic Sugar Man, Sixto Rodriguez’s jewel rediscovered less than a decade ago. Single released July 17th 2020 on Résiste records.
Ozaka Bondage – Sugar Man (Sixto Rodriguez) Cover feat. Karate Kick, Birds View & Markus Oeffinger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiCmwjJnQE4 Thank you for your music. 50 years later a new generation of musicians is still influenced by your beautiful songwriting and is rediscovering your songs, that fit perfectly in the crazy world we live in. No matter what happened in the past – your music is immortal. Ozaka Bondage
Early ‘Sugar Man’ cover version by Ronnie Jones
Our thanks to Lee Shaw in London who alerted us to this rare cover of ‘Sugar Man’ by Ronnie Jones, off his 1975 4-track 7” single, which was (apparently) only released in Brazil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a20XGVjVzg&w=500
Sugar Man by Rebekah Thompson & Ben Ludik For Moffie Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6FThT8wqoQ From the 2019 South African-British biographical war romantic drama film Moffie, co-written and directed by Oliver Hermanus.
SugarMan.org 