Will Dockery wrote:

> Mr Zodiac wrote:
>> Will Dockery wrote:
>> > "Just Walkin'" <kens...@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> > news:7aa5f3ab-959d-4851...@e10g2000vbv.googlegroups.com...
>> > >Will Dockery wrote:
>>
>> > > Rodriguez.
>> > >
>> > > Anyone here listen to Rodriguez?
>> > >
>> > > I was browsing in a little record store in Atlanta last night and
>> > > Rodriguez was playing, the first song snapping pure folk rock at me until
>> > > I had to ask the counter clerk...
>> > >
>> > > "Who is that man?"
>> > >
>> > > I'm still finding that out and I like what I'm finding. Anyone else?
>> > >
>> > Howdy Will. How're things down Shadowville-ways?
>> >
>> > Old Sixto's one cool cat with two legacy releases, both sustainably
>> > spinworthy, and a recent soundtrack compilation.
>> >
>> > Here're a couple of useful links:
>> >
>> > Interview on 60 Minutes:
>> > http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7424586n
>> >
>> > Bonus Clip of Daughter's remarks:
>> > http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7424690n&tag=segementExtraScroller;housing
>> >
>> > Tavis Smiley interviews Malik Bendjelloul, the filmmaker behind
>> > Searching for Sugar Man:
>> > http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/filmmaker-malik-bendjelloul/
>> >
>> > Thanks JW... I just watched the documentary "Searching For Sugar Man" a
>> > couple of times this morning, and the mystery seems deeper than ever!
>> >
>> > Many questions, and even the answers given raise questions...
>> >
>> > http://www.redbox.com/movies/searching-for-sugar-man?cid=EM:tr_fnr
>> >
>> > "In the late 1960s, two celebrated producers discovered a musician in a
>> > Detroit bar and were struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics.
>> > They recorded an album that they believed was going to secure his reputation
>> > as one of the greatest recording artists of his generation. In fact, the
>> > album bombed and the singer disappeared into obscurity amid rumors of a
>> > gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg recording found its way into
>> > apartheid South Africa, and, over the next two decades, it became a
>> > phenomenon. Two South African fans then set out to find out what really
>> > happened to their hero. Their investigation led them to a story more
>> > extraordinary than any of the existing myths about the artist known as
>> > Rodriguez..."
>> Very good performer, I wonder how he is faring in 2020....?

> Sad day, Rodriguez has passed away:

> https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rodriguez-searching-for-sugar-man-rocker-dead-obit-1234803231/

Again, may he rest in peace....