| Rodríguez – Sandrevan Lullaby- Lifestyles Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Sandrevan is a mix of the names of his daugthers Sandra and Eva. Maybe he wrote this song as a lullaby for them? | |
| Rodríguez – Halfway Up the Stairs Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| In The Album "Alive", which is an Live-Album from Rodriguez' Australian Tour in 1979, said Rodriguez, that this song was the very first song that he wrote. That means that Rodriguez wrote this song 1967 or before this year, because his first single was released 1967 (I'll Slip Away). | |
| Rodríguez – Heikki's Suburbia Bus Tour Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Eva Rodriguez, the daughter of Sixto Rodriguez, wrote once in a Forum: After a conversation with my father, I wanted to share a short story. In the sixties, there were these people called hippies. It can be said that a long hair, dark skin, free thinking musician, like Rodriguez could have been labeled one. In my youth, I recall hearing about how the “rich folks” (those living in the suburbs), would come down to the inner city of Detroit to actually see these “oddities” in their natural environment. Maybe even take a picture or two. This happened to be my neighborhood and some of my people. Rodriguez had a very good friend named Heikki. I remember a large man with long blond/brown hair. He had a very nice home, a wife named Linda and two huge bull mastiff dogs. Despite stereotypes, Heikki was a mathematician from “Estonia” (Estonia is a republic in North-Eastern Europe, near Finland) who rode a classic motorcycle. In fact, one of the places that Rodriguez played, a “motorcycle funeral”, was for one of Heikki’s friends. The motorcycle club was called "The Penetrators". Anyway, someone had made fun of Rodriguez’s friend. Protective of Heikki’s feelings, Rodriguez organized what I consider to be a peaceful form of retaliation. A bus was chartered, full of hippies, four gallons of wine, etc. The group went to Grosse Point, Michigan and surrounding areas where they visited suburbian malls and neighborhoods on a tour of their own. The rest, is in the music. The story made the newspapers in Detroit and also reached Florida (a southern U.S. state). |
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