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Title: Rodriguez / Sugarman
Post by: JimH on June 21, 2017, 06:26:47 pm

Anyone else a fan of Rodriguez (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodriguez_(singer-songwriter))?

Sugarman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searching_for_Sugar_Man), the documentary about him, is amazing.

He lives in Detroit, about 74 now, wrote and sang a lot of great music, and worked as a construction laborer most of his life.

Title: Re: Rodriguez / Sugarman
Post by: JimH on June 24, 2017, 09:13:03 pm

Here's a link at Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Searching-Sugar-Man-Rodriguez/dp/B007ZRZWOA/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_15_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=1B8MWETAQMQ66QBBPH6N).

Title: Re: Rodriguez / Sugarman
Post by: astromo on August 04, 2017, 09:01:08 am

Thanks for the reminder.

I've now watched the film. All rather humbling.

Also, very much a stark contrast with another doco that I watched recently from the BBC:
   Imagine... S21E07 Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin'

Hendrix was also an introvert (although you wouldn't think so from his stage craft) but tracked a very different path. The intriguing similarity was that they both first "made it" outside the US. How nuts is that?