Blog: LocalCut

Seattle unearths cold artifacts from a rediscovered genius. [COLD ARTIFACT] Imagine a Mexican-American Donovan, spilling out prodigious, Dylanesque poetry—only rather than Donovan's fantasias of bananas and Atlantis, these songs rise like steam from gritty city streets. Now imagine said singer's reedy voice and strummed acoustic emerging amid fuzztone guitar, and evocative strings and horns conjuring Norman Whitfield's adventurous, late-'60s Motown productions. One needn't imagine. Rodriguez's lost 1969 classic, Cold Fact, is the reissue of the year: an obscure but brilliant artifact of singer-songwriter psychedelia. Credit the gifted crate-diggers of Seattle's Light in the Attic [...]