Johnny Rodriguez
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johnny Rodriguez is a country music singer.
Johnny's love of music began in Sabinal, Texas where he was born December 10, 1951, the ninth of ten children in a Mexican-Irish household. While still in high school at age 16 Johnny formed his first band, 'The Spocks' "named after Mr. Spock on Star Trek". He arrived in Nashville in 1971 with $14.00 in his pocket. Two weeks later he was playing lead guitar in Tom T. Hall's band. After signing his first recording contract in 1972, he recorded 11 consecutive #1 singles, becoming a country music super star before his 22nd birthday. In 1979 he recorded for CBS Epic and spent approximately 125 days a year on the road with his band, The Hole In The Wall Gang, traveling to concerts throughout the country in his custom designed bus. His home was a 27 acre farm 12 miles from Nashville where he lived in a 100 year old log cabin surrounded by woods and wildlife. Johnny achieved a Black Belt in TAE KWON DO for health and escape.
As a teen, Johnny Rodriguez would sing for friends at Garner State Park. One night during the 4th of July holidays, in 1969, at Garner, he and a group of friends decided that they were hungry. According to Rodriguez: "when we were teenagers at Garner we always tried too meet girls that had a mother that would feed us (because none of us had any money); some of those girls may not be our friends today but all their mothers still are."
Rodriguez continued, "I guess no mothers we knew had arrived at the park yet so to satisfy our hunger, the goat was stolen by me with four or five friends from the nearby Bob Davis Ranch" just a few miles from Garner on Ranch Road 1050, near Cherry Creek. Johnny butchered the goat in Cherry Creek and the meat was then taken to a roadside park to be barbequed. The roadside park is on a hill a few miles from the Bob Davis Ranch on Highway 83 near the intersection of Ranch Road 1050. A half dozen or more additional friends were waiting at the roadside park for the goat rustlers and their kill.
Johnny basted the goat in the only sauce he had, plum jelly. Someone saw the goat rustling caper at the ranch and reported it to the authorities. A little while later, a deputy sheriff drives up to the roadside park with his lights off, named J.R. Jackson (not to be confused with Texas Ranger Joaquin Jackson). Everyone runs except Johnny who by this time was barbequing the cabrito.
Johnny took the blame for the whole incident. At the Uvalde jail Johnny signed a statement, at the request of J.R. Jackson, without understanding the seriousness of what he was signing, Everyone thought the goat was worth about $20 to 30 bucks, like a Spanish goat would cost. The goat turn out to be a "prized" Angora goat worth about $3,000 which made the thief a felony.
[edit] Albums
- 2006 — 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Johnny Rodriguez
- 2006 — Country Chart-Toppers: Johnny Rodriguez
- 2005 — Greatest Hits
- 2004 — Greatest Hits
- 2004 — Desperado: A Decade of Hits
- 2002 — Desperado: His First Twenty Hits
- 2001 — Back to Back
- 1998 — Johnny Rodriguez
- 1997 — Hits
- 1996 — Funny Things Happen to Fun Lovin' People
- 1996 — You Can Say That Again
- 1995 — Super Hits
- 1993 — Run for the Border [2]
- 1993 — Run for the Border [1]
- 1988 — Gracias
- 1986 — Full Circle
- 1984 — Foolin' with Fire
- 1983 — For Every Rose
- 1982 — Biggest Hits
- 1980 — Through My Eyes
- 1979 — Rodriguez
- 1978 — Love Me With All Your Heart
- 1977 — Practice Makes Perfect
- 1977 — Just for You
- 1976 — Reflecting
- 1976 — Greatest Hits
- 1976 — Love Put a Song in My Heart
- 1975 — Just Get up and Close the Door
- 1974 — My Third Album
- 1974 — Songs About Ladies and Love
- 1973 — All I Ever Meant to Do Was Sing
- 1973 — Introducing
[edit] Singles
- 1995 — I Was Born This Way
