So, being a huge music nerd, I plan to occasionally post about awesome music, so I figured, "Why not make it a weekly theme?" Done. Welcome to the first installment of "Yale Listens to Music."

Tonight, I bring you Rodriguez. A Detroit folksy blues rocker from the 1970's, Rodriguez's album Cold Fact has flirted with fame and obsurity both in the years since its release, as Wikipedia helps exemplify with this tasty quote:

In 1991 both his albums were released on CD in South Africa for the first time. His fame in South Africa was completely unknown to him, until 1998 when his eldest daughter found a website dedicated to him on the internet.

Awesome? Yes. But what about the music?

The music is fantastic. It's a wonderful taste of 1970's inner city disillusionment with establishment (see: "This Is Not A Song, It's an Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues") while being rediculously catchy. I actually bought it as a pure impluse buy: while browsing Cutler's, the wonderful record shop on Broadway, the album was playing, and I couldn't help buying it after hearing a few songs as I checked out the selection. The album is a bit Dylan, a bit Cohen, and a bit White Stripes. And best, it's free to listen to at last.fm. Simply click here and see to the right of the page to spend a wonderful half-hour listening to the album all the way through for free. Thank you internets for giving us free music. And thank you Cutler's for being a real brick and mortar record store where great music still matters.