{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Coming from Reality | type = studio | artist = Rodriguez | cover = Coming from Reality album cover.png | alt = | released = November 1971 | recorded = 1970 | venue = | studio = Lansdowne Studios, London | genre = *Folk rock<ref>{{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}}</ref> *psychedelic rock<ref name="AM">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/coming-from-reality-mw0000816722 |title=''Coming from Reality'' – Rodriguez |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=November 6, 2025 |last=Kik |first=Quint}}</ref> | 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}}<ref name="AM" /> |rev2 = Laut.de |rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schuh |first1=Michael |title=Aus den frühen 70ern ins Jetzt gebeamt |url=https://www.laut.de/Rodriguez/Alben/Coming-From-Reality-40781 |website=laut.de |access-date=November 6, 2025 |language=German |date=May 8, 2009}}</ref> |rev3 = MusicOMH |rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=Oliver |first1=Nic |title=Rodriguez – Coming From Reality |url=https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/rodriguez-coming-from-reality |website=MusicOMH |access-date=November 6, 2025 |date=May 5, 2009}}</ref> |rev4 = Pitchfork |rev4score = 6.1/10<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sisson |first1=Patrick |title=Rodriguez: Coming From Reality |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12994-coming-from-reality/ |website=Pitchfork |access-date=November 6, 2025 |date=May 5, 2009}}</ref> |rev5 = PopMatters |rev5score = 6/10<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sisson |first1=Patrick |title=Rodriguez: Coming From Reality |url=https://www.popmatters.com/93735-rodriguez-coming-from-reality3-2496024358.html |website=PopMatters |access-date=November 6, 2025 |date=July 28, 2009}}</ref>}}
'''''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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>
==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 | length11 = 3:57 | title12 = Street Boy | length12 = 3:47 | title13 = I'll Slip Away | length13 = 2:53 }}
==Personnel== Credits adapted from the 2009 CD reissue liner notes.<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=Coming from Reality |type=Liner notes, CD booklet |publisher=Light in the Attic Records |others=Rodriguez |id=LITA 038 |year=2009}}</ref> * Rodriguez – vocals, guitar * Chris Spedding – guitars * Tony Carr – bongos, possible percussion * Phil Dennys – keyboards * Jimmy Horowitz – violin (track 6) * Gary Taylor – bass * Andrew Steele – drums
===Technical=== * Steve Rowland – producer * John Mackswith – engineer * Phil Dennys – arrangement (tracks 3, 5, 7 and 9) * Jimmy Horowitz – arrangement (tracks 6, 8 and 10)
===Artwork=== * Hal Wilson – photography and illustration * Rainy M. Moore – album title, creative coordinator * Milton Sincoff – packaging and merchandising * Clarence Avant – impresario
==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== {|class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Chart (1979) ! Peak<br>position |- | Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.aria.com.au/Issue1201.pdf|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20130318130100/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20130319-0001/Issue1201.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-03-18|title=The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 4 March 2013|date=March 19, 2013|publisher=Australian Web Archive|issue=1201|page=2|accessdate=19 August 2014}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> | align="center"|24 |- ! Chart (2013) ! Peak<br>position |- {{album chart|Flanders|109|artist=Rodriguez|album=Coming From Reality}} |- {{album chart|Denmark|12|artist=Rodriguez|album=Coming From Reality}} |- {{album chart|Netherlands|91|artist=Rodriguez|album=Coming From Reality}} |- {{album chart|Finland|29|artist=Rodriguez|album=Coming From Reality}} |- {{album chart|France|135|artist=Rodriguez|album=Coming From Reality}} |- {{album chart|Spain|63|artist=Rodriguez|album=Coming From Reality}} |- {{album chart|Sweden|16|artist=Rodriguez|album=Coming From Reality}} |- ! Chart (2013) ! Peak<br>position |- | Australian Albums (ARIA)<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.aria.com.au/Issue1205.pdf|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20130407210400/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20130408-0704/Issue1205.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-04-07|title=The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 1 April 2013|date=April 8, 2013|publisher=Australian Web Archive|issue=1205|page=6|accessdate=19 August 2014}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> | align="center"|67 |- ! Chart (2014) ! Peak<br>position |- {{album chart|Australia|25|artist=Rodriguez|album=Coming from Reality}} |- |}
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