Coming from Reality
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{{Infobox album
| name = Coming from Reality
| type = studio
| artist = Rodriguez
| cover = Rodriguezreality.jpg
| alt =
| released = November 1971
| recorded = 1970
| venue =
| studio = Lansdowne Studios, London
| genre = *Folk rock{{cite magazine |url= http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/480733/cult-singer-rodriguez-risen-in-new-film-sugar-man|title= Cult Singer Rodriguez Risen in New Film 'Sugar Man'|last= Gallo|first= Phil|date= July 29, 2012|magazine= Billboard|access-date= May 13, 2017}}
| length = 40:30
| label = Sussex
| producer = Steve Rowland
| prev_title = Cold Fact
| prev_year = 1970
| next_title = At His Best
| next_year = 1977
}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r638709|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]
|rev2 = Laut.de
|rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.laut.de/Rodriguez/Alben/Coming-From-Reality-40781|title = Aus den frühen 70ern ins Jetzt gebeamt}}
|rev3 = MusicOMH
|rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/rodriguez-coming-from-reality|title=Rodriguez - Coming from Reality | Album Reviews|date=4 May 2009}}
|rev4 = Pitchfork
|rev4score = 6.1/10{{Cite web|url=http://www.pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12994-coming-from-reality/|title = Rodriguez: Coming from Reality|website = Pitchfork}}
|rev5 = PopMatters
|rev5score = 6/10{{Cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/93735-rodriguez-coming-from-reality3-2496024358.html|title = Rodriguez: Coming from Reality, PopMatters|date = 28 July 2009}}}}
Coming from Reality is the second and final studio album from American singer–songwriter Rodriguez, originally released by Sussex Records 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 Light in the Attic Records in May 2009. This reissue included three bonus tracks originally released only in Australia, although they were recorded in Detroit in 1972 with Cold Fact collaborators Mike Theodore and Dennis Coffey, representing the last recordings they ever did together.{{cite web |url=http://hangout.altsounds.com/news/106134-rodriguez-coming-from-reality-gets-new-lease-of-life.html |title=Rodriguez 'Coming From Reality' gets new lease of life |accessdate=2009-03-17 |author=Stevenson, Mark |date=2009-03-12 |publisher=altsounds.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090427125754/http://hangout.altsounds.com/news/106134-rodriguez-coming-from-reality-gets-new-lease-of-life.html |archive-date=2009-04-27 |url-status=dead }}
Track listing
All songs written by Sixto Rodriguez.
{{track listing
| title1 = Climb Up on My Music
| length1 = 4:54
| title2 = A Most Disgusting Song
| length2 = 4:49
| title3 = I Think of You
| length3 = 3:25
| title4 = Heikki's Suburbia Bus Tour
| length4 = 3:22
| title5 = Silver Words?
| length5 = 2:04
| title6 = Sandrevan Lullaby – Lifestyles
| length6 = 6:37
| title7 = To Whom It May Concern
| length7 = 3:21
| title8 = It Started Out So Nice
| length8 = 4:01
| title9 = Halfway Up the Stairs
| length9 = 2:27
| title10 = Cause
| length10 = 5:30
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = 2009 re-release bonus tracks
| title11 = Can't Get Away (1973)
| length11 = 3:57
| title12 = Street Boy (1973)
| length12 = 3:47
| title13 = I'll Slip Away (1973)
| length13 = 2:53
}}
Personnel
- Rodriguez – vocals, guitar
- Chris Spedding – guitars
- Tony Carr – bongos, possible percussion
- Phil Dennys – keyboards
- Jimmy Horowitz – violin on "Sandrevan Lullaby"
- Gary Taylor – bass
- Andrew Steele – drums
=Technical=
- Steve Rowland – producer
- John Mackswith – 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)
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)
- Coming from Reality LP, remastered (Sussex/UMe/Universal, 2019)
Charts
References
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External links
{{Sixto Rodriguez}}
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Category:Sixto Rodriguez albums
Category:Sussex Records albums
Category:Albums produced by Steve Rowland (record producer)
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