David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. Cover art of the 1970 album 'Cold Fact' by Rodriguez. Most jarring are the lyrics to a number of Cold Fact’s other songs, like ...

IN 1979, SIXTO RODRIGUEZ was a construction worker in his home town of Detroit when he learned that "Cold Fact," the album he had released in 1970 with no success in the United States, had become ...

It's been a long, strange road for singer-songwriter Rodriguez. In 1970, he released Cold Fact, an album examining inner-city American life in the '60s. But in light of poor album sales ...

The blunt urban commentary and the unique sound of his debut, Cold Fact, struck a chord in Australia and New Zealand, to the degree that in 1979 and 1980, Rodriguez ... The album is a patchwork ...

Like a young Bob Dylan crossed with Jose Feliciano, with the poetic story-telling skills of Don McLean or Paul Simon, imparting the cold facts with a sly attitude, Sixto Rodriguez is an unsung ...

bootleg copies of Rodriguez’s debut album, Cold Fact, somehow made its way to the shores of South Africa, as well as Australia and New Zealand. His vitriolic folk songs about big-city misery ...