Mega Rare Rodriguez Die Cut 1971 US SXBS Sussex 7012 LP~"Coming From Reality .  Cover is grading  8.5/10 ( Small factory drill hole). Will clean the vinyl and test play and at this stage~ visual grading is 8/10 ( with a few light surface marks/scratches). There has been good interest in this album~ and I am now test playing. It does have a small waiver in the outer vinyl and thankfully it didn't cause a skip or jump on my turntable/stylus, but it is noted. ( About 1-2 mm from top to bottom). Audio sound is very good ( with surprisingly little background noise~ given that the record is big on vocal and in some tracks light on instrumental volume~ which can sometimes override background clicks etc).I've not played a Rodriguez record before~ do I detect a resemblance to Dylan ( with an ounce of Don McLean thrown in)?  Forgot to mention~ it includes the original inner lyric sleeve ( in good condition...and with the same factory drill hole).   Coming from Reality From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: , Coming from Reality by Released November 1971Recorded Lansdowne Studios, London - mid-to-late 1970 , , , Length

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Coming from Reality is the second and final studio album to date from American singer/songwriter, , originally released by in 1971. It was later released in South Africa in 1976 with the alternate title After the Fact.

The album was also reissued on compact disc (CD) by in May 2009. This reissue includes three bonus tracks originally released only in Australia, though they were recorded in Detroit in 1972 with Cold Fact collaborators Mike Theodore and , representing the last recordings they ever did together.

Contents  [] 

Track listing[] "Climb Up on My Music" – 4:54 "A Most Disgusting Song" – 4:49 "I Think of You" – 3:25 "Heikki's Suburbia Bus Tour" – 3:22 "Silver Words?" – 2:04 (10 TRACKS ~ NOT 12) "Sandrevan Lullaby – Lifestyles" – 6:37 "To Whom It May Concern" – 3:21 "It Started Out So Nice" – 4:01 "Halfway Up the Stairs" – 2:27 "Cause" – 5:30 Personnel[] – vocals, guitar – guitars Tony Carr – bongos Phil Dennys – keyboards Jimmy Horowitz – violin on "Sandrevan Lullaby" Gary Taylor – bass Andrew Steele – drums Technical[] – producer – engineer Recorded at Lansdowne recording studios, London, England late 1970, released in late 1971. Arranged by Phil Dennys (tracks 3, 5, 7 and 9) Arranged by Jimmy Horowitz (tracks 6, 8 and 10) Credits[] – archival materials, photo courtesy Milan Bogden – audio engineer Tim Burzese – audio engineer - percussion – archival materials, arranger, audio production, photo courtesy, producer Vincent Cook – graphic design – remastering Phil Dennys – arranger, keyboards – executive producer Tim Forster – archival materials, photo courtesy Jimmy Horowitz – arranger, violin John MacSwith – audio engineer, engineer Los Rodriguez – acoustic guitar, primary artist, vocals Rodriguez – primary artist – composer – audio production, producer – archival materials, photo courtesy Milton Sincoff – merchandising, package direction – guitar – drums – reissue producer – bass, bass instrument Mike Theodore – archival materials, arranger, audio production, photo courtesy, producer Hal Wilson – illustrations, original photography Josh Wright – executive producer Releases[] Coming from Reality LP (Sussex, 1971) Coming from Reality CD (Light in the Attic Records, 2009) Coming from Reality LP with bonus tracks (Light in the Attic Records, 2009) Coming from Reality LP with bonus tracks (Light in the Attic Records, 2009)

Review by Quint Kik

For his second album, decamped to London at the request of producer , who had heard and wanted to produce him. Since had made little in the way of commercial movement, jumped at the opportunity. Session musicians like renowned guitarist lent a hand on production, which was overseen by . (Curiously, the latter would go on to use about half of for 's oddity .) By far not as striking as his debut, offers up some haunting stream-of-consciousness gems in "Sandrevan Lullaby" and "Cause." 's lyrics still come off as mildly anti-establishment; "Heikki's Suburbia Bus Tour" apparently recalls a trip and friends undertook to Grosse Pointe to retaliate against the rich folks who often came to the inner city of Detroit to make fun of the hippies. He also spends lots of time with the low life, as he reminisces in the prologue to "A Most Disgusting Song": "I've played every kind of gig there is to play now/I've played faggot bars, hooker bars, motorcycle funerals, opera houses, concert houses, halfway houses." Slightly more slick than the debut, but still retaining the haunted personality (if not the gritty funk), the album sadly went nowhere in the United States and Europe. Faced, however, with the unexpected success of in South Africa, Sussex re-released in 1976 as After the Fact. It lay out of print worldwide for several decades until 2009, when Light in the Attic resurrected it, along with the debut, and added three bonus tracks recorded during 1972-1973, back in Detroit, with and again producing.