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Post subject: Rodriguez who ???
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 9:03 pm
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G'day, I spent much of my youth in Australia, listening to the music of the enigmatic Detroit singer/songwriter (Sixto) Rodriguez. His two albums - Cold Fact (1969) and Coming from Reality (1971) have always been among my favorites and were moderately successful in this country.
I recently watched the academy award winning documentary "Searching for Sugar man" and was amazed to learn that Rodriguez was completely unknown in his homeland.
This 2012 film documents the efforts of a group of South African fans in the late nineties to discover the fate of this mysterious artist. Rumored to be long dead, his music was/is also popular in South Africa, even more so than Australia, I mean something like "500,000 records sold" kind of popular. Rodriguez and him family apparently had no idea of this, nor did they see any money.

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So if you are not one of the 6 people in the US who bought his records back in the day, I feel compelled to urge you to check out this wonderful musician. Here's the film.

Official trailer.

Searching for Sugar man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc1ACtgZbXs

Are there any fans here from other parts of the world? I'd like to hear from you.
Goodonya ...Mark.


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Post subject: Re: Rodriguez who ???
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 3:08 pm
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Hi Boxbang, I'd never heard of Rodriguez, what a story eh, watching a few of the youtube vids. The second one you posted has that "not available" tag, I'll be on the lookout for the film, thanks for posting, would be nice if there was some kinda back dated royalties due.


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Post subject: Re: Rodriguez who ???
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 6:38 pm
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G'day ripitup555, yeah that's a shame you can't view the movie. It's a great story.
The documentary was shown on TV here in Oz last week. We now have the two original 40 year old albums back in the top 30, plus the movie soundtrack. He is due to tour in October.
Annoyingly, his moderate success in Australia was omitted from the film, although this doesn't change the story. I'll try to post youtube links to the full abums.





No doubt the artist will benefit from these new sales, although he apparently gives most of his money away and lives in the same old house in Woodbridge (Detroit).

He is a content, philosophical guy in his seventies, who has provided well for his family, mostly through hard labor. It's just a shame that he is mostly unknown in his homeland. This was such a great era in American music.

Goodonyaz ...Mark.


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Post subject: Re: Rodriguez who ???
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 8:58 pm
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I'm not familiar to that musician though I like his documentary.

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Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 6:35 am
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Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 8:49 am
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60 Minutes did a story and interview with him a while back, cool dude.


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