Rodriguez Cold Fact Orig '71 OZ LP Downer Psych Folk
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Description
ARTIST: Sixto Rodriguez
TITLE: Cold Fact
RELEASE INFORMATION: Australian A&M Sussex LAbel.SASL-934226
CONDITION: Cover- VG+Disc/Vinyl- EX
OTHER INFORMATION: Original Australian Issue from 1971( not the 1977 Blue Goose re-issue) on the A&M Sussex label. Original textured sleeve. Some age spotting on the sleeve. The vinyl has some very light surface marks consistent with normal "in& out" transfer.The Following info is from the "Fuzz Acid & Flowers" book. Go to www.borderlinebooks.com for more info.
Until recently a mysterious figure, Sixto Rodriguez was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1942 to Mexican immigrant parents - his first name chosen because he was their sixth child. Possessed of an distinctive voice, Rodriguez was a singer / songwriter steeped in the folk and blues traditions of his times and comparisons with Dylan and Donovan are inevitable and not undeserved. However, a profoundly working class upbringing in this industrial - and musical - heartland helped to make his work quite unique.
In April 1967 he recorded five original songs for the local Impact label. The 'A' side of the resulting single, I'll Slip Away (later re-cut in the mid-seventies), was an atmospheric number with considerable commercial potential, the 'B' side, You'd Like To Admit It, a contrasting folk-rocker in which the singer berated an ex-girlfriend for going of with a 'hick'. Unfortunately it became Impact's penultimate release before the label went under. Of the remaining tracks Forget It would later be re-recorded for his first LP and To Whom It May Concern for the second, but the intriguingly titled That Discoteque remains unreleased in any form.
Undaunted, two years later Rodriguez found himself signed to the newly founded Hollywood label, Sussex (Bill Withers' first label), and the classic Cold Fact LP emerged as their first release. Recorded in 1969 and skilfully produced by two other Impact refugees, Mike Theodore and Dennis Coffey, it opened with the trippy but dark Sugar Man. Over a subtle backing of acoustic guitar and electronic effects Rodriguez's lyrics were starkly honest:
"Sugar man, met a false friendOn a lonely dusty road
lost my heart when I found it
it had turned to dead black coal.
Silver magic ships you carry
Jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Jane
Sugarman, you're the answer
That makes my question disappear
Sugarman, 'cos I'm weary
Of those double games I hear."
The themes of many other songs on the album can be gleaned from the titles alone: Crucify Your Mind (drugs), This Is Not A Song, It's An Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues, Inner City Blues and Rich Folks Hoax (social unrest and political apathy), but there were also beautiful, bittersweet love songs in Forget It and Jane S. Piddy. Rumour has it (although Rodriguez has denied the connection) that Like Janis was inspired by Janis Joplin. The brutally direct Only Good For Conversation stands out as a great fuzz rocker, but for the most part the album gives prominence to Rodriguez's acoustic guitar and powerful lyrics
POSTAGE RATES AND OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION
LP's - Worldwide rate of $us10 per LP.
45's, EP's, CD's etc.Worldwide rate of $us5 per Item.
Less for multiple purchases and of course less for Australia and the Asia/Pacific Region. Rates for multiple purchases will be given after auctions end.
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Happy Bidding .......Kevin
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