Johnny Rodriguez burst onto the music scene during the 1970s as the first Chicano Country artist and remains the greatest and most memorable Chicano Country singer of all time. Juan Raoul Davis Rodriguez was born on December 10, 1951, in Sabinal, in South Texas. He was the second youngest of ten children. The family had lived in a four-room house, and Johnny was an altar boy. When Johnny was seven, his older brother, Andres, bought him a guitar. Johnny became a fine performer and formed a band when he turned 16. But that same year his father died of cancer and the next year Andres was killed in an auto crash.

Although Johnny was a letterman on his high school football team, the loss of his father and brother sent him spiraling into trouble. Jailed four times by the age of 18, Johnny was overheard singing in his cell by famed Texas Ranger Joaquin Jackson. Captain Jackson intervened on Johnny's behalf with Happy Shahan, who had built Alamo Village in Bracketville for John Wayne's movie, The Alamo. Shahan operated Alamo Village as a popular tourist attraction, and he hired 19-year-old Rodriguez as a singer and stagecoach driver.

In 1971, his act was heard by Tom T. Hall and Bobby Bare, who were on tour in the area. Hall and Bare brought Johnny to Nashville, where he became a lead guitarist in Tom's band. Hall helped Johnny sign a recording contract. After his first single, Pass Me By, reached the Top 10, the Academy of Country Music voted him "Most Promising Vocalist." In 1973, all three of his releases soared to number 1: You Always Come Back, Ridin' My Thumb to Mexico, and That's the Way Love Goes. In 1975, all three of Johnny's releases hit No. 1: I Just Can't Get Her Out of My Mind, Just Get Up and Close the Door, and Love Put a Song in My Heart. During the early 1980s Johnny suffered severe injuries in a karate accident, problems with his vocal cords, and the personal trauma of a marriage breakup. But he struggled through these troubles and again began producing hits. He has recorded 26 hits.

Traсklist:

1970 - S

01 - Pass Me By (If You're Only Passing Through)

02 - You Always Come Back to Hurting Me

03 - Ridin' My Thumb to Mexico

04 - That's the Way Love Goes

05 - Something

06 - Dance with Me (Just One More Time)

07 - We're Over

08 - I Just Can't Get Her Out of My Mind

09 - Just Get Up and Close the Door

10 - Love Put a Song in My Heart

11 - I Couldn't Be Me Without You

12 - I Wonder If I Ever Said Goodbye

13 - Hillbilly Heart

14 - Desperado

15 - If Practice Makes Perfect

16 - Eres tu

17 - Savin' This Love Song for You

18 - We Believe in Happy Endings

19 - Cuando Caliente El Sol (Love Me with All Your Heart) -

20 - Alibis

21 - Down on the Rio Grande

22 - Fools for Each Other

1980 - S

23 - What'll I Tell Virginia

24 - Love Look at Us Now

25 - North of the Border

26 - I Want You Tonight

27 - Trying Not to Love You

28 - It's Not the Same Without You

29 - Born with the Blues

30 - Foolin

31 - How Could I Love Her So Much

32 - Back on Her Mind Again

33 - Too Late to Go Home

34 - Let's Leave the Lights On Tonight

35 - First Time Burned

36 - Rose of My Heart

37 - Here I Am Again

38 - I Hate the Way I Love It

39 - I Didn't (Every Chance I Had)

40 - You Might Want to Use Me Again

41 - No Chance to Dance

42 - Back to Stay

43 - Run for the Border

44 - You Can Say That Again

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