Freedy Johnston (born 1961) is a New York City-based singer/songwriter originally from Kinsley, Kansas. Having scored several minor hits since the early 1990s, 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 been described as a "songwriter's songwriter." [LINK: http://pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=654] [1] Biography Johnston's first album, "The Trouble Tree" was released in 1990. 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"). [LINK: http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/johnston_freedy/bio.jhtml] [2] Johnston followed up with his 1994 major label debut This Perfect World, which received rave reviews and led to Rolling Stone

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