Rare 1970 Rodriguez Cold Fact Original US LP Sussex Promo Sugar Man EX/NM #7000

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Up for auction is the rare Soul Rock Blues original Promo LP "Cold Fact" by Rodriguez released on Sussex Records #SXBS 7000 in 1970. This is the FIRST US press promo with timing stripe and not a later reissue.Visually graded using Goldmine standards, the vinyl rates an EX/NM with beautiful shine and extremely light surface wear. The jacket rates a VG+ with light ring wear and some edge wear with the beginnings of a split in the top left corner. This is a beautiful solid copy of this rare sought after record. DO NOT MISS OUT! Low starting bid and no reserve! Will be shipped in a sturdy record mailer within a protective plastic sleeve with the record outside of the jacket to prevent splits. Please see my other auctions for more rare vinyl.

Cold Fact is the debut album from American singer-songwriter Rodriguez. It was released in the United States on the Sussex label in March 1970. The album sold very poorly in the United States (Rodriguez was himself an unknown in the U.S.), but managed to sell well in both South Africa and Australia, with Rodriguez touring Australia in 1979.

In 1971 the album was released in South Africa by A&M Records, who were by then the owners of the Sussex label. In 1976, several thousand copies of Cold Fact were found in a New York warehouse and sold out in Australia in a few weeks. It went to No. 23 on the Australian album charts, staying on the charts for 55 weeks. In 1998 Cold Fact was awarded a platinum disc in South Africa, and was five-times platinum in Australia. Rodriguez has since toured South Africa and Australia with much success, but remained relatively unknown in his native country of the USA. This began to change after the reissues of his albums in the U.S. by Light in the Attic Records in 2008 and 2009, and even further in 2012 with the Academy Award winning documentary film Searching for Sugar Man, which soon led to appearances on major American television shows like 60 Minutes and The Late Show with David Letterman.

Track listing[edit]

All songs written by Sixto Rodriguez, except (5, 10) by Gary Harvey, Mike Theodore and Dennis Coffey.

Personnel[edit]

There were no musicians credited on the original album sleeve, but Rodriguez and Mike Theodore have filled in the gaps:

• Rodriguez – vocals, acoustic guitar
• Dennis Coffey – electric guitar
• Mike Theodore – keyboards, brass and string arrangements
• Andrew Smith – drums
• Bob Pangborn – percussion
• Bob Babbitt – bass
• Detroit Symphony (Leader Gordon Staples) – strings
• Leader Carl Reatz – horns (trombones, baritone sax)
• Friends and family of Joyce Vincent and Telma Hopkins – children's choir on "Gommorah"