Freedy Johnston, 'Rain on the City' (Bar/None)

More character studies from longtime troubadour.

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 harmonium and untrustworthy guy telling his conquest that "it was arranged in the stars we should meet," and cue shivers.

Rain on the City

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Freedy Johnston: Songs in the Key of Life

Freedy Johnston makes it hurt so good.

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