Rodriguez - Cold Fact

NEW VINYL LP ON UNIVERSAL 2019

180 GRAM VINYL. 

There was a mini-genre of singer/songwriters in the late '60s and early '70s that has never gotten a name. They were folky but not exactly folk-rock and certainly not laid-back; sometimes pissed off but not full of rage; alienated but not incoherent; psychedelic-tinged but not that weird; not averse to using orchestration in some cases but not that elaborately produced. And they sold very few records, eluding to a large degree even rediscovery by collectors. Jeff Monn, Paul Martin, John Braheny, and Billy Joe Becoat were some of them, and Sixto Rodriguez was another on his 1970 LP, Cold Fact. Imagine an above-average Dylanesque street busker managing to record an album with fairly full and imaginative arrangements, and you're somewhat close to the atmosphere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixto_Rodriguez

Tracklist

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