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Cold Fact | 
| Artist: Rodriguez
Label: Light in the Attic
Category: Music
List Price: £13.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 2550
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 36
UPC: 826853003629
EAN: 0826853003629
ASIN: B001BKVWYG
Release Date: September 8, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Sugarman | | • | Only Good For Conversation | | • | Crucify Your Mind | | • | This Is Not A Song, Its An Outburst | | • | Hate Street Dialogue | | • | Forget It | | • | Inner City Blues | | • | I Wonder | | • | Like Janis | | • | Gommorah (A Nursery Rhyme) | | • | Rich Folks Hoax | | • | Jane S. Piddy |
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| Customer Reviews:
A Blast August 2, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I remember coming across this album at a place called Bronkhustspurt (sic) in S Africa around about 1975. I was blown away by "I Wonder", as were many others. Once I got my hands on the full album it went on to make a seminal impact on my teenage angst.
I could have got a copy by downloading a torrent or whatever but such are my happy memories of this album it's worth paying for. If you have not heard this album you are missing out.
SIX stars not FIVE.
Stunning Folk Rock Gem By Unsung Bard! November 22, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This album deserves 6 stars. Every track is sublime. The lyrics, thought provoking, have dated well and are still relevant today. The muscianship, imaginative and accomplished. The production, stunning. I could go on and on. If you have any interest in West Coast sounds, folk rock, singer/songwriter material of the late 1960's and early 1970's and you do not own this, buy it now. You'll thank me later. A lost jewel of an album from a bygone age, when music was still music and not sanitised drivel.
The Lost Icon of Rock - listen and decide for yourself October 6, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
'Sugarman, won't you hurry/'cos I'm tired of this road/Lost my heart, when I'd found it/it had turned to jet black coal'The opening bars to one of the best drug songs of all time. Rodriquez somehow got overlooked by the music moguls in the early 70s, but he should be up there with Dylan, Neil Young and Leonard Cohen. (Cold Fact was Rodriguez' debut album, but nobody noticed and he has been living in Detroit as a construction worker).
His lyrics of love, loss, drugs in a city of ruin evoke the same rich imagery of, say, Powderfinger (Neil Young). I had this on vinyl, thank god it's been re-released. 'My troubles just drive my mind/My mother treats me slow/My statue's got a concrete heart'
Buy this album and be comforted that there are still hidden treasures out there.
bush days October 15, 2004
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This legend, I had the privilege of seeing live in Durban, is unsung. Anyone who was forced to sit out their time in the South African Defence Force will know this album by heart. It is music in its own class. His way of putting the rot of society so beautifully across as music is what influenced me in my growing up years. to see through the trees, cut the cr*p and be a better person. i am really not worthy of giving a rating.
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