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The good news is that Freedy’s back, a return to the scene of one the ‘90s’ most reliable songwriters. There really is no bad news here, unless you had hopes that, in the nearly n... Lees meer

Lots of independent artists have had unusual brushes with mainstream success, but none of them has a story as strange as that of Freedy Johnston. After releasing Can You Fly, an album that was hail... Lees meer

Singer/songwriter Freedy Johnston's moment as a critical supernova passed quickly enough during the '90s that probably few have noticed he hasn't released an album of new material since 2001. But h... Lees meer

Breakthrough and backlash: with some exceptions, the former eventually begets the latter, no matter how wrongly deserved. The transition is part of the natural balance of things, and many artists u... Lees meer

If Marshall Crenshaw and Elvis Costello decided to pooltheir talents and take on part time jobs at the helm of America - theband, not the country that is - then the end result would probably sound ... Lees meer

Wasn't the singer-songwriter Freedy Johnston always pretty much middle-aged? Midwestern and spectacularly unflashy, apparently born with a receding hairline, the Kansas-born, Hoboken-launched s... Lees meer

After solid success in the 90's, singer/songwriter Freedy Johnston only released one album of new material all last decade which was in 2001. Rain On The City puts an end to that drought and its co... Lees meer

Though Freedy Johnston's This Perfect World was one of the best CDs of the '90s, the ''Bad Reputation'' guy has barely maintained any rep lately. (His last disc of new songs was in 2001.) Johnston ... Lees meer

Sometime during the summer of 1971 while traveling across the country with some of my college buddies, I had my picture taken next to a sign in Kinsley, Kansas that proclaimed I was standing in the... Lees meer

As he has for two decades, singer-songwriter Freedy Johnston plays the unreliable narrator in this exquisitely unsettling folk-rock collection. Take "Lonely Penny," with its hymnlike harm... Lees meer