What are you listening to at the moment?

Carl Nielsen, Symphony No. 4 "The Inextinguishable", San Francisco Symphony conducted by Herbert Blomstedt. A disc I purchased exactly 20 years ago, now ripped lossless to my Mac.
 
Sixto Rodriguez aka "Sugarman"
- Cold Facts
- Coming from reality

A kind of Vivain Maier story almost, he made only two records in the early 70's that obvioulsy failed at that time.
He gained CULT status in South Africa during the apartheid regime and everybody thought he was dead. Rumors about how he killed himself onstage. And one guy started the search of sugarman, a quest to find out how he died and finally he found out he is in his 70's now very much alive and making a linving as a deep blue colour construction worker in the Detroit suburbs.

I guess as with everything it is about timing. But why this guy never became known and made a commercial success is well beyond me. Maybe his Lyrics are just too deep. Cranking it up in the car on my way to work I thought, has Santana heard this, before he made his most successful records ?

He is touring now and his old records have officially been re-released and he now getting royalties.

The documentary movie is shown on HBO on demand, not sure if you can find it on the web.
Check this out :
http://sugarman.org/
http://www.rodriguez-music.com/
 
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