Then, when I moved to Lawrence, KS for one semester of school and six years of restaurant work, I heard all this new music I couldn't believe. I remember sitting in my dorm room one afternoon, skipping class, and hearing Pere Ubu's "The Modern Dance" for the first time.
Standing up, staring at the speakers. Another big moment. So I was introduced to a lot of new to me music at that time. When I opened up my mind it came in too, you know. I realized that I'd been overlooking this beautiful thing all my life.
Didn't do the band route really. Had one band that lasted about three gigs. Kind of kept my music to myself. Looking back, keeping a band together and playing a lot would have been a more direct route to where I am now.
Why don't you come in and join him? His second album "Can You Fly" was released in April. With his strong musical vision and distinctive voice, Freedy Johnston has delivered a remarkable listening experience. Two years in the making, the album brings together sixteen musicians on thirteen songs.
Can You Fly is a truly resonant labor of love. In addition to Freedy's unique song craft, "Can You Fly" also features some remarkable performances. Despite all the players, the arrangements are never fussy and the songs are allowed to stand on their own. Freedy Johnston's songs are often open to wildly different interpretations, but they always seem to ring true on some hidden level of the listener's heart.
From the cinematic jump-cut style of "Responsible" to the metaphorical tale of love and death in "Mortician's Daughter", this second album firmly establishes Freedy's stature as one of America's great songwriters. What follows are a few biographical notes by Freedy himself.. Can you fly?
Freedy Johnston Find information on Frredy Johnston including biography, releases, social media and online store. Rain on the City lacks the consistency of Johnston 's masterpiece, Can You Fly , or its follow-up, This Perfect World , but unlike the albums that followed, this collection is a beautiful example of Johnston playing to his strengths and reminding us why he's one of the best and most singular American songwriters at work today.
With any luck, it won't take quite so long for him to make something this comfortable but pleasantly surprising again. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International.
Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental. Sexy Trippy All Moods. Drinking Hanging Out In Love. Introspection Late Night Partying. Rainy Day Relaxation Road Trip. The affect of this is a mellowed sense of adjacent connection to thousands and thousands of strangers, where a nod or a polite hello seem like monumental interactions that can be read and misread for hours or days, though almost assuredly, that other person is long gone, lost in the sea.
It causes the mind and the man to take on a kind of guarded optimism about relationships. On "Rain On The City," Johnston's first album of new songs in over eight years, he uses the idea of a soaked city to convey this concussive loneliness, or an abandonment of intimacy, all while having some intense self-intimacy in bucketsful.
These are songs in which single hearts dance solo and eyes are coasting for partners, but mostly feeling the suffocating difficulty of cutting through the static. It's a static that speaks loudly and incomprehensibly, but it has got a lot to say. Johnston loses himself in the rough patches of the stories of man and woman - of the ex who still has a key to the other's house and returns to hack the shit out of his belongings - but he also makes those harsh episodes seem or sound remarkably romantic, in a way.
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