Cold Fact

Also heard it on NPR and discovered it. It's a brilliant album, cover-to-cover, one of the true ones you can listen to in order and just sit back and enjoy. It really has a theme and a progression.

Beautiful stuff.

I heard bits of the Album on NPR and I was blown away at how this was a forgotten album. The messages of this album is so relevant back then (although maybe not accepted by people), as it is now. The style and the sound is well at home today - I'll say much more so than back in the 1970s but it is well worth a listen.

Just relax and listen to this album and let it hit you.

What I love most about this album are the lyrics. They truly send shivers down my spine and have meaning on many different levels. I know his work was meant to be a social/political commentary, but it works just as well as a wound licker for after one of those nasty break-ups.

The south african band - Just Jinger - did a great cover of Sugarman if you like this song.

Mellow, cool blues/rock guitar riffs and smoothe vocals - experimental at times with synthesizer. Rodriguez is definitely a hall of famer in my books. We need more Rodriguez in our lives!

I thought I was the only person on the planet that remembered Rodriquez - Cold Fact! I do a web search and lo and behold, there's a cult following for him. Strangely enough the cult following was in SA (where I heard him) and Australia. I heard him (and even remember the album cover) back in high school over 30 years ago and remembered the one track "I Wonder", yet I don't remember what I had for lunch! I went to school near Durban, SA and the album floated around at parties and such. His haunting music has stayed with me ever since, I will be buying Cold Fact now!

I must have bought 10 copies of this album when it first came out. I gave most of them to my friends, so many in fact that I don't own a copy myself. I was the music freek (nut!!) amongst my friends and since I thought that Bob Wills or Jimmy Reed would have been a bit much for them, I played Cold Fact. Since I couldn't be bothered bringing the album to their houses each weekend, I bought them copies and left them there. Every time we gathered for a Fri/Sat night out we would put on Rodriquez, toke up, have a few drinks, eat pistachio nuts and groove to "Sugar Man" et al. I have to admit I haven't heard this album for over 25 years but I can still sing the words to nearly every song!!!! I am amazed that this album had such a small audience; mainly in Australia and Sth Africa, as it is an iconic release. Australia had an extemely vibrant Pop music scene in the 70's thanks to Ian "Molly" Meldrum and his popular Countdown TV show. Along with Rodriguez, Countdown broke ABBA, which is a good or bad thing depending on one's perspective. If anyone out there, in a moment of madness, wants to find out what the average!! Aussie music buff was getting off on in the early 70's grab a copy of a Rodriguez album and see how off the planet we really were.