RODRIGUEZ

COLD FACT 

 tracks ---

1. Sugar Man (3.45)
2. Only Good For Conversation (2.25)
3. Crucify Your Mind (2.30)
4. This Is Not A Song, It's an Outburst:
   Or, The Establishment Blues (2.05)
5. Hate Street Dialogue (2.30)
6. Forget It (1.50)
7. Inner City Blues (3.23)
8. I Wonder (2.30)
9. Like Janis (2.32) 
10. Gommorah (A Nursery Rhyme) (2.20)
11. Rich Folks Hoax (3.05)
12. Jane S. Piddy (2:54)
    

Rodriguez: Vocals, acoustic guitar
Dennis Coffey: Guitars
Mike Theodore: Keyboards
Andrew Smith: Drums
Bob Babbitt: Bass
Brass and string arrangements: Mike Theodore

This classic album was recorded in Detroit during August & September 1969. It was released in the USA on the Sussex label in March 1970.

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.

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 skillfully produced by two other Impact refugees, Mike Theodore and Dennis Coffey, it opened with the trippy but dark Sugar Man.

The themes of many other songs on the album can be gleaned from the titles alone: Crucify Your Mind, This Is Not A Song, It's An Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues, Inner City Blues and Rich Folks Hoax, but there were also beautiful, bittersweet love songs in Forget It and Jane S. Piddy.  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

  Vinyl is in Near MINT minus (NM-) condition and jacket is in VG condition (heavy wear and stain in top left corner, radio station timing strip on front)

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