The latest in an illustrious series that includes Elliott Murphy, Marshall Crenshaw, Paul Kelly, and John Hiatt, Freedy is an exquisite singer-songwriter for the critics to champion and the masses to disregard. Butch Vig's crisp sonics and the restrained...more.
It's a crime that this album did not raise Freedy Johnston to any more than the cult footnote that he is today. An excellent songwriter, Johnston had previously released the stunning CAN YOU FLY? a couple years earlier. With Butch...more.
The music industry is a funny place. There is often no commonality between true musical talent and record sales. Often the music found at the top of the charts is not the best music available, but instead the most widely played...more.
with all due respect, it appears that a lot of folks--fans and critics alike--just have't listened carefully enough to this cd. these are sly and, well, CREEPY songs. Did someone die in "This Perfect World?" Yeah, the only...more.
"Well I sold the dirt to feed the band," sings Freedy Johnston the opening track, "Trying to Tell You I Don't Know." It turns to be the truth: to finance this album, Freedy, a gifted but struggling songwriter living in...more.
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