Sixto Rodriguez

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sixto Diaz RodriguezNPR was talking about Rodriguez, I tuned in right when they were playing the music. I missed most of of it but I did catch the name. His record, Cold Fact is being re-released. from what I've heard, if you love most classic rock, you're going to like Rodriguez. It's hard to imagine that he wasn't very popular in the US.

It's one of the lost classics of the '60s, a psychedelic masterpiece drenched in color 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.Now, Light In The Attic is set to commit Cold Fact to CD for audiences in the UK and America, who can finally find out why halfway across the world Rodriguez is spoken of in the same reverent tones as The Doors, Love and Jimi Hendrix.

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