The album is a patchwork of folk ... Listening to this excellently remastered reissue of Cold Fact (a reissue of the follow-up, Coming From Reality, is apparently in the works), it's not difficult ...

she still managed to record a follow-up album, Running Out Of Time, with Rebecca Jade & the Cold Fact. I wanted to know what she’s learned about touring at the pop-star level from two years on ...

Doing so would signal a fresh start for the 70-year-old musician, whose Herculean fan base in South Africa revered Rodriguez’s 1970 debut, Cold Fact, over albums by the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan.

Though there was plenty of buildup, Cold Fact never became a hit in the United States. But bootlegged copies made the album — and the singer — a legend in a South Africa in ferment over apartheid.

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 ...

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 ...

Seeing the Cold Fact album with its weird cover showing a picture of a man with a hat and dark glasses sitting cross-legged inside a coloured ball, it was like looking at an incredibly precious ...

But for my way of thinking and for most, it's the production and all the interesting, quirky instruments that make that album and bring alive all the songs.” Cold Fact's stories still ring true ...