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Freedy Johnston is tagged as: singer-songwriter, folk, alt-country, indie, americana

Freedy Johnston (born 1961) is a New York City-based singer-songwriter originally from Kinsley, Kansas. Johnston’s first album, “The Trouble Tree” was released in 1990, and features the guitar playing of the roots musician and author, David Hamburger. Johnston sold some of his family’s farmland to finance the recording of his second album, Can You Fly (an event he wrote about in a song on that album, “Trying to Tell You I Don’t Know”). Johnston followed up with his 1994 major label debut This Perfect World, which received rave reviews and led to Rolling Stone Magazine naming him “songwriter of the year”. That album also spawned a minor alternative hit with the song “Bad Reputation”.
Johnston’s songs are often about troubled loners, and cover topics like heartbreak, alienation and disappointment. Known for the craftsmanship of his songs, he has sometimes been called a “songwriter’s songwriter”.
He has contributed songs to the soundtracks for movies including Kingpin and Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead. Johnston and fellow musicians Jay Moran, James “Pie” Cowan, Duke Erikson, and Butch Vig perform occasional shows as a covers band called “The Know-It-All B...
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Top 10 Freedy Johnston Songs
Bad Reputation
This Perfect World
Evie's Tears
Don't Fall In Love With A Lonely Girl
Gone Like the Water
Two Lovers Stop
The Kind of Love We're In
Lonely Penny
The Other Side of Love
Venus is Her Name
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Top 10 Freedy Johnston Albums
This Perfect World
Never Home
Blue Days Black Nights
Can You Fly
Right Between the Promises
Unlucky
The Way I Were
The Trouble Tree
Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop
Trouble Tree
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