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Duane “Fritz” Balk, age 86 of Waucoma, died Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, at the Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital in West Union from complications of dementia and heart failure.
Most artists face rejection at first, but once they’ve finally signed a record deal it’s devastating when the label declines to release it.
We dug into the catalog of the late Detroit singer/songwriter Rodriguez and ranked every song from worst to best.
Two albums in the early 1970s went largely unnoticed in the United States, but not overseas. Then came the 2012 documentary “Searching for Sugar Man.”
The Detroit musician never found much of an audience in the United States, but his songs of protest and stark imagery resonated in Australia and South Africa, leading to a late-career resurgence captured in the Oscar-winning documentary “Searching for Sugar Man."