I recently watched the documentary, Searching for Sugar Man, which I highly recommend, by the way, and came across this guy Rodriguez. He cut a couple of highly acclaimed but commercially disastrous albums in '70 and '71 before disappearing from the music scene. Unbeknownst to him, he became a music god in South Africa, and the documentary goes into that.

Anyway, I rather like his music, which is clearly Dylan-influenced. My fave of his is a song called "Cause" from his second album, Coming from Reality. Another good one is his best-known song, "Sugar Man", from his first album, Cold Fact.
An interesting cat, for sure.

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I bought the soundtrack on vinyl. Really nice package.

The director of that documentary has already passed away. He sounds closer to Donovan than Dylan in my ears.

Yes, sadly Malik Bendjelloul killed himself a few months ago. I agree that Rodriguez doesn't sound much like Dylan (Donovan is a good comparison, though I think I prefer Rodriguez's plaintive whine), but the verbiage is quite similar to Dylan's (e.g., unique, conceal), as are the titles of some of the songs ("______ Blues"). I'm not saying he's an imitator, just that Dylan probably inspired him, like he did so many singer-songwriters.

I watched the documentary a few months ago and listened to his stuff. I like it. Really good documentary and shows how some singers get screwed over royally by the Recording companies.

^Yes, in the doc they interviewed the owner of Sussex, who was incensed by the insinuation that he had ripped off Rodriguez, pointing out that Sussex went under a few years later. I don't know, but somebody made off with all that early-'70s South African lucre.