Rodriguez :: Coming From Reality

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Last year Sixto Rodriguez was responsible for one of my favorite reissues of 2008 — 1970’s Cold Fact.   He also composed an Off The Record that pissed some folks off. Good times.   This spring Light In The Attic reissued the follow up to Cold Fact entitled Coming From Reality.   We have copies of both the CD and vinyl for AD readers.   Leave a comment with your name and email address.   Winners contacted via email.

Related: Off The Record :: Rodriguez (Detroit, MI)

Download:

MP3: Rodriguez :: Climb Up On My Music
MP3: Rodriguez :: Heikki’s Suburbia Bus Tour
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Purchase: Rodriguez – Coming From Reality

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50 thoughts on “Rodriguez :: Coming From Reality

  1. Absolutely love Rodriquez. Managed to catch him live playing with a back-up band from South AFrica called Big Sky. Cold Fact is one of those absolutely amazing lp’s where you know all the lyrics but is not sure what the title is.
    Good to see he is not dead anymore, neither has he disappeared.

  2. Oh…so good !

    I love…

    I’m French, and I listen AD every day, it’s really nice !

  3. I only have a bad vinyl rip of this. Help me with a crisp new vinyl reissue.

  4. Awesome album. Always good to get lost classics reissued. Would love it on vinyl.

  5. seeing him this Wednesday in DC. would love a CD copy of Coming From Reality. thanks!
    ajrothman at gmail.

  6. I really enjoyed the Cold Fact reissue. I would love to get my hands on a vinyl copy of Coming from Reality.

  7. Aye, I’d heard this was coming out and was looking forward to it… picked up the last cd after hearing “sugar man” on your site, and loved it.

  8. my buddy is a detroiter who’s going through some tough times, much like the city. we went and saw rodriguez at schubas in chicago last saturday and both were blown away by this man. his music, sadly, transcends time.
    i would love to hand my buddy a copy of rodriguez vinyl.

  9. been waiting for this! Would love the vinyl!

    i was just planning on playing Rodriguez for my high school class as we discuss music of the 1960s and address the influence of Mexican-Americans on the counterculture!

    can’t wait for the new old-tunes!

  10. Clarity and fuzz. This (and the first post that initially turned me on to Rdrgz) spurred on a little song-writing crescendo in my life- I can do it… I can’t do it… I can do it. Clarity and fuzz.

    “This town etched in pavement, rank attitudes and concrete.
    Your smile is my salvation… and the Valley Oak
    by the riverside
    There’s a trail I walk every time I head down Sailor Bar-
    the way is worn and narrow; sunlight tumbles through
    like scattered jewels.

  11. Loved Cold Fact and would love a companion vinyl copy of Coming from Reality but would settle with a cd too.

    Thanks, as always love the site.

  12. Thanks for generosity.

    I’m a format agnostic. I’ll take whatever. I just want to hear the music.

  13. hi there – big fan of AD for awhile now. like most everyone who posted, loved cold fact and dying to hear coming from reality on cool cracking vinyl!
    thanks for offering readers a chance to win.

  14. Awesome that Rodriguez has finally reached North America! I wonder how my Sussex pressing of “After the Fact” (the album’s 1976 South African manifestation with different album art) compares to this crisp new vinyl Light in the Attic offering. Naturally, I would welcome the opportunity to find out. Peace…

  15. Friend saw him live in Detroit recently and though the show was OK but Roddy was a drunk. Seven glasses of wine onstage swilled in his set. Not much care for your audience when you’re that obsessed with ethanol.

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