Pullin’ ‘Tubes: Praising The Sugar Man

Every few years, some record company seems to unearth an album from a lost artist of the 1960s or ’70s that blows people away – i.e. Shuggie Otis, Os Mutantes, Gary Higgins, Judee Sill, etc. This year’s lost classic, Cold Fact, comes to us from a Detroit singer-songwriter simply known as Rodriguez. The album is chocked full of an interesting combination of psychedelic rock meets folk rock meets Motown soul and one that I’ve been obsessing over.

As the story goes the album never took off the states, but Rodriguez became a bit of a cult figure in both Australia in the late ’70s and South Africa in the 1990s (where he played sold out stadium shows). It wasn’t until recently though – that the now 66 year-old – played a headlining show of his own in the states – thanks to all the buzz surrounding the reissue by Light In The Attic Records. The album opens with Sugar Man and infectious ode about a drug dealer, check this version from the Byron Bay Blues Festival…

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