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 Post subject: Sixto Rodriguez
PostPosted: Wed Sep 07, 2016 10:55 pm 
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Just watched a brilliant and fascinating documentary on Netflix called "Searching for Sugar Man" about an American singer from Detroit in the Seventies. His first album, "Cold Fact", should have been a major commercial success but for some reason wasn't. However, in South Africa (unbeknownst to him) he was absolutely massive, bigger than The 'Stones, Bob Dylan, even bigger than Elvis.
I would urge anyone to watch it if at all possible, it is an incredible story. I really like his voice and the instrumentation, arrangements and production, in my humble opinion, I think is excellent. I immediately bought the album and a couple of tracks from the second ("Coming From Reality")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W978zoLu1w&list=PLkdNQBttbMkJp-tXmjSY8ctTYc57JI6Y-

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 Post subject: Re: Sixto Rodriguez
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Fantastic film. There's a short discussion about it back in 2012 on this site

viewtopic.php?f=13&t=29535&p=584018&hilit=rodriguez#p584018

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