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If youve ever heard the music of folk dude Sixto Rodriguez, youll know the Sugar Man the spectral drug dealer at the heart of the Mexican-American songwriters best-known track of the same name. Via Rodriguezs sparse acoustic guitar and vocal, the Sugar Man slips his customers horror, salvation and false friends, as well as drugs. At the songs end a woozy whistle from the guitar searches for new highs and gets lost up there. And its up there where the singer has been hiding, according to Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul, whose reality-stretching documentary Searching For Sugar Man tells Rodriguezs remarkable story.

via NME Album Reviews Film Review: Searching For Sugar Man NME.COM.

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