BIO
Plain and simple, Rodriguez spits the cold facts. He drops acute humanistic observations gleamed from a Detroit born and bred existence. And though this talented singer-songwriter’s primary recorded output reaches back to the late sixties and early seventies, its enduring legacy has manifested itself in the most unexpected, far reaching, and mind-blowing of ways. While heads have been passing Rodriguez LPs around for a number of years in the Ameri… READ MORE >
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Cold Fact
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It’s one of the lost classics of the ‘60s, a psychedelic masterpiece drenched in colour and inspired by life, love, poverty, rebellion. 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 as a day laborer in Detroit, Michigan. He was unaware that his defining album had become not only a cult classic, but for the people of South Africa, a beacon of revolution.
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Coming From Reality
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Back in 1971, Coming From Reality was Rodriguez’s last gasp, the follow-up to Cold Fact and the final album he was allowed to record for the Sussex label. Unearthed, once again, by Light In The Attic Records, it’s another treat for fans new and old, designed – at the time – as Rodriguez’s vision of a perfect pop album.
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Rodriguez Screen Printed Poster
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20″ × 24″ screen-printed poster (limited to 200 copies, with less than 25 left). Each poster is printed on thick matte paper stock, and hand-numbered & signed by the artist (Mike Klay).
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Rodriguez (Retail Poster)
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24″ × 16″ poster
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Inner City Blues b/w I'm Gonna Live Till I Die (DELUXE EDITON)
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We are celebrating Record Store Day 2010 with this 7" release of two live performances by Rodriguez taped during his 2009 tour. The A side features a recording of “Inner City Blues” performed on the streets of Paris. The B side is a cover of Frank Sinatra’s “I’m Gonna Live Till I Die” recorded during his date at The Triple Door in Seattle. Rodriguez continues to prove that when it comes to music, age really is nothing but a number.
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Criminal Records (Rodriguez Record Store Day GOLD 7")
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Gold Version of the Record Store Day 7"
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