Friday, August 08, 2008



But wait, there's more!

Just spied this, Rodriguez gets reissued. Yay! Very cool album, and you can go here and grab a free download of Sugarman, courtesy of Light In The Attic Records.

"It's one of the lost classics of the '60s, a psychedelic masterpiece drenched in colour and inspired by life, love, poverty, rebellion, and, of course, "jumpers, coke, sweet mary jane". The album is Cold Fact, and what's more intriguing is that its maker - a shadowy figure known as Rodriguez - was, for many years, lost too. A decade ago, he was rediscovered working on a Detroit building site, unaware that his defining album had become not only a cult classic, but for the people of South Africa, a beacon of revolution...

[His debut LP and the follow-up tanked, and he quit music] As his music career became a memory, Rodriguez's legend was growing - on the other side of the world. In South Africa and, to a lesser extent, Rhodesia, Australia and New Zealand, Cold Fact had become a major word of mouth success, particularly among young people in the South African armed forces, who identified with its counter-cultural bent."

*First Official Reissue!
*Mastered from the original tapes
*Co-produced by Motown guitar god Dennis Coffey & Mike Theodore
*Featuring members of legendary Motown players The Funk Bros.

Read more here.

2 comments:

thewalker said...

i first heard sugarman on the David Holmes essential mix cd [which is raw as fuk, in a good way]. Holmes covered it later for a seven inch that came with one of the singles off his free association album, and later added it to the re-release of that album.

nice

Simon said...

Rodriguez was one of our most regular sellers when I was working in a record shop in 1979-80. It sold and it sold and it sold. An then Festival deleted it and we never found out why (the instruction came from Australia)