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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Dead Men Don't Tour - Rodriguez in South Africa 1998 (TV Documentary)

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Movie about a folk singer named Rodriguez who became an icon in
South Africa while being dropped by his record label in America. 
Fantastic story.  Tragic life. 100% of Rotten Tomatoes liked it which is
nearly unheard of praise.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyE9vFGKogs
The DVD is at our library.




Sixto Rodriguez
Music artist
Sixto
Diaz Rodriguez is an American folk musician based in Detroit, Michigan.
His career initially proved short lived, with two little-sold albums in
the early 1970s and some brief touring in Australia.
wikipedia.org

 

Dead Men Don't Tour - Rodriguez in South Africa 1998 (TV Documentary)

http://youtu.be/in--_OWfTd4








Uploaded by kind permission of Tonia Moller (nee Selley).



Directed
by Tonia Selley, Dead Men Don't Tour, was first broadcast on SABC 3 at
9.30pm on the 5th July 2001 just after 'Ripley's Believe Or Not'.



This
film features wonderful concert footage, backstage antics, interviews
with Craig Bartholomew Strydom and Stephen "Sugar" Segerman, Rodriguez
and his family, the promoters, the fans and the musicians.



All live footage was filmed at the concerts in Pretoria, Durban and the Blues Room in Johannesburg.



The
soundtrack for the documentary is based on the Live Fact CD with video
collages from the various performances. The concert footage is linked
with interviews, backstage antics, rehearsals, etc.



I Wonder /
Inner City Blues / Jane S. Piddy / Sugar Man / A Most Disgusting Song /
Like Janis / Establishment Blues / Climb Up On My Music / I Wonder by
Generation EXT (filmed during the studio recording) / Forget It



Produced by Incha Productions

Executive producers: Georgina Parkin and Charles Watson

Directed by Tonia Selley

Edited by Cathy Winter



http://rodriguezandbigsky.com/



http://sugarman.org



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