Lost Music SaloonLost Music Saloon: July 23, 2012: 5-7 p.m.: ‘Rodriguez’ Radio Special!

Welcome to a special edition of the Lost Music Saloon.  I'm airing a one-hour radio special today: 'Rodriguez: Searching For Sugar Man'.  It's about the strange, true story of Sixto Rodriguez, a singer out of Detroit who put out a couiple of albums back in the early 1970's that promptly went nowhere here in the United States, and Rodriguez slid from public view to a life of manual labor.  Somehow, however, he became a star on par with Elvis, Dylan and the Rolling Stones in South Africa.  But Rodriguez never knew about his foreign fame, and he was rumored to be dead among his fans in South Africa.  That situation remained static for many years until some fans decided to try and track him down…and found him.  A documentary has been filmed about the story ('Searching For Sugar Man'), which is scheduled to open here in Richmond in mid-August, but the soundtrack to that film should be out tomorrow.

Enjoy!

Lost Music Saloon: July 23, 2012: 5-7 p.m.: Rodriguez Radio Special!

 

Bright Eyes: Another Travelin' Song

Mouse & The Traps: A Public Execution

Steve Forbert: Make It All So Real

Blaze Foley: Clay Pigeons

 

Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise: Pretender

Ted Hawkins: Happy Hour

Peter Mulvey: Kids in the Square

Bruce Springsteen: Lost in the Flood

 

One-Hour Radio Special: 'Rodriguez: Searching For Sugar Man'.  An amazing, true story about a Detroit musician named Sixto Rodriguez. 

 

Loudon Wainwright III: White Winos

Mary Lou Lord: Baby Blue

Donovan: Hurdy Gurdy Man

Cat Stevens: Peace Train

 

Rodriguez: Climb Up On My Music

 

Garry, DJ

Lost Music Saloon

WRIR 97.3 FM

Richmond, Virginia