Freedy Johnston is a road warrior. He must show up in the Philadelphia area at least 4 times per year, playing at small clubs. I like Freedy's CDs, and own 3 or 4 of them. So I thought it made perfect sense to catch him live, for the first time, when he appeared at a venue close by, at a small club in Doylestown, PA called Puck.So about three weeks ago, a couple of friends and I went to see him...
I often read descriptions of Freedy Johnston's songs that make comparisons to short stories, and while he does create characters and situations as a writer would, Freedy strips away so much from the story that I don't think the comparison is apt. Listeners are given the bare minimum and encouraged to draw their own conclusions, whether they be about Freedy's life or yours. For me, "The Morticia...
Freedy Johnston is a road warrior. He must show up in the Philadelphia area at least 4 times per year, playing at small clubs. I like Freedy's CDs, and own 3 or 4 of them. So I thought it made perfect sense to catch him live, for the first time, when he appeared at a venue close by, at a small club in Doylestown, PA called Puck.So about three weeks ago, a couple of friends and I went to see him...
I often read descriptions of Freedy Johnston's songs that make comparisons to short stories, and while he does create characters and situations as a writer would, Freedy strips away so much from the story that I don't think the comparison is apt. Listeners are given the bare minimum and encouraged to draw their own conclusions, whether they be about Freedy's life or yours. For me, "The Morticia...
A funny thing about pop music is that there's always room for the singer-songwriters. A movement begun in the '70s thanks to the popularity of Bob Dylan (who was really just doing his best Woody Guthrie), "singer-songwriter" became a genre in its own right and was made popular by artists wielding nothing more than a piano or acoustic guitar, their sweet voice, and some lyrics that, more likely ...