Freedy Johnston, 'Rain on the City' (Bar/None)
More character studies from longtime troubadour.
By Peter Gerstenzang 12.23.09 12:57 PM
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.
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Freedy Johnston: Songs in the Key of Life
Freedy Johnston makes it hurt so good.
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