Sixto Rodriguez: A Mini-Biography
And offering perhaps a different lens on Holy Thursday.
In the crumbling neighborhoods of post-1967 Riot Detroit, Sixto Rodriguez walked and sang.
He was strumming a guitar, channeling a poor man’s Bob Dylan in the smoky dives of neighborhoods where you’d clutch your wallet tight. By day, he hauled bricks and mopped floors; by night, he poured his soul into songs that echoed off the walls of forgotten bars. …
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