Assuming you are old enough, you only need to listen to the first few bars on Freedy Johnston’s new album, Back on the Road to You, to be carried back to the late 1970s and the light pop of adult-oriented […]
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The Howard Hughes of literate singer-songwriters has to be Freedy Johnston, the poet laureate of depressive folk-pop of the 1990s, responsible for near-perfect song collections. This decade he’s been hard to catch, considering his last album came out a month […]
April 1998 found Freedy Johnston in Los Angeles recording tracks for his album Blue Days Black Nights. As a respite from the studio, Johnston played a gig at Santa Monicas famed McCabes Guitar Shop. The beautifully rough and engaging performance […]
Pop tunesmith Freedy Johnston breaks little new ground on his sixth studio album, which comes across as an “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” kind of record. Most everything here would fit comfortably among the highlights of Johnston’s 1990s […]
Some singer-songwriter types truly are storytellers. Others specialize in placing one perfect couplet in each song. Then there’s Freedy Johnston, who can often tell a story, or at least create the intricate framework for one, in the cozy confines of […]
Some singer-songwriter types truly are storytellers. Others specialize in placing one perfect couplet in each song. Then there’s Freedy Johnston, who can often tell a story, or at least create the intricate framework for one, in the cozy confines of […]
The naked city conceals a million stories. This year, Freedy Johnston tells ten of ’em. In albums gone by, the New York songwriter has congealed a brilliantly muddy stock of tragic characters into tales of love, woe and ragged glory. […]
With his focus on guitar primacy, engaging storytelling and lasting melodies, Freedy Johnston is a first-class American singer/songwriter. He’s also an indefatigable craftsman who shows a perfectionist’s attention to detail, but Johnston’s magic is seldom clinical, and Never Home is […]
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