Cold Fact (1970)
| Artist: Rodriguez |
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Song Listing
Disc 1
Song Title
1. Sugar Man ~ Rodriguez (70s)
2. Only Good For Conversation ~ Rodriguez (70s)
3. Crucify Your Mind ~ Rodriguez (70s)
4. This Is Not A Song, It's An Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues ~ Rodriguez (70s)
5. Hate Street Dialogue ~ Rodriguez (70s)
6. Forget It ~ Rodriguez (70s)
7. Inner City Blues ~ Rodriguez (70s)
8. I Wonder ~ Rodriguez (70s)
9. Like Janis ~ Rodriguez (70s)
10. Gomorrah (A Nursery Rhyme) ~ Rodriguez (70s)
11. Rich Folks Hoax ~ Rodriguez (70s)
12. Jane S. Piddy ~ Rodriguez (70s)
Album Notes and Credits
Notes & Personnel Info |
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Personnel: Sixto Rodriguez (vocals, acoustic guitar). |
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Audio Remixer: Ray Hall. |
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Arrangers: Dennis Coffey; Mike Theodore. |
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The folks at the modest Seattle imprint Light In The Attic have dedicated themselves to providing the public with carefully assembled re-issues of forgotten soul, reggae, and psychedelic albums, and have scored yet another triumph with their reissue of Rodirguez's neglected psychedelic folk masterpiece, COLD FACT. |
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Born to a Mexican immigrant family in Detroit, Sixto Diaz Rodriguez honed his guitar playing skills in between shifts at Detroit's larger auto plants. In the late `60s he attracted the attention of guitar-slinger extraordinaire Dennis Coffey and soon thereafter recorded COLD FACT for Coffey's Sussex label. COLD FACT is a singular amalgamation of gentle folk and dreamy psychedelic production touches that sounds today like a more soulful variant of Donovan's psych-pop excursions of the late `60s. |
Producer: Dennis Coffey; Mike Theodore |
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Engineer: Milan Bogden; Mike Theodore |
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Artist Overview
Few artists have become as mythical or taken a more circuitous route to fame than Detroit, Michigan's Sixto Rodriguez. A commercial nonentity in the late '60s, Rodriguez chronicled personal apocalypses and a cratering Detroit with hard-hitting, Dylan-inspired imagery over richly embroidered folk-funk. After quitting the business for a day job, the singer/songwriter gained fame in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, where his debut masterpiece, Cold Fact, went multi-platinum. Finally unearthed in the late '90s, Rodriguez saw his discography reissued to ringing (and decidedly deserved) critical plaudits. This renaissance was mirrored in the 2012 Academy Award-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man and companion soundtrack, which followed two Rodriguez fans' quest to discover the fate of one of their most beloved artists. ~ Patrick Sullivan & Quint Kik
Artist Influences
? & the Mysterians | Bob Dylan | Donovan | Fred Neil | Love | Richard & Mimi Fari¤a | Richie Havens | Simon & Garfunkel | The Temptations (R&B) | Tim Hardin
? & the Mysterians | Bob Dylan | Donovan | Fred Neil | Love | Richard & Mimi Fari¤a | Richie Havens | Simon & Garfunkel | The Temptations (R&B) | Tim Hardin
Artist Contemporaries
Arlo Guthrie | Arthur Lee | Curtis Mayfield | Jim Ford (Songwriter/Vocals) | Jos? Feliciano | Marvin Gaye | Santana | Shuggie Otis | Sly & the Family Stone | Som Imagin rio | Stephen Stills | Terry Reid
Arlo Guthrie | Arthur Lee | Curtis Mayfield | Jim Ford (Songwriter/Vocals) | Jos? Feliciano | Marvin Gaye | Santana | Shuggie Otis | Sly & the Family Stone | Som Imagin rio | Stephen Stills | Terry Reid
Artist Followers
Animal Collective | Gil Scott-Heron | Jos? Gonz lez (Sweden) | Midnight Oil | Nas | Paolo Nutini
Animal Collective | Gil Scott-Heron | Jos? Gonz lez (Sweden) | Midnight Oil | Nas | Paolo Nutini
Technical Info
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Release Date : 02/16/2009 |
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Original Release Date : 1970 |
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Catalog ID : LITA 036CD |
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Label : Light in the Attic Records |
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Number of Discs : 1 |
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Studio/Live : Studio |
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Mono/Stereo : Stereo |
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SPAR Code : n/a |
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UPC : 00826853003629 |
Professional Reviews
Spin (p.104)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "COLD FACT is a psych-folk time capsule from a dark era of dreams destroyed."
- 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "COLD FACT is a psych-folk time capsule from a dark era of dreams destroyed."
Blender (Magazine)
(p.85)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Motown studio musicians made the songs weirdly elegant and lent this cracked classic enough cheap synthesizer wheezes, trombones and inner-city psychedelica to earn its place in the freak-folk pantheon."
(p.85)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Motown studio musicians made the songs weirdly elegant and lent this cracked classic enough cheap synthesizer wheezes, trombones and inner-city psychedelica to earn its place in the freak-folk pantheon."
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