‘Can You Fly’ is the second critically hailed album by singer-songwriter Freedy Johnston. It was released in 1992 on Bar/None Records. Remastered with bonus tracks.
A giant step forward from his likeable but ragged debut, Freedy Johnston’s Can You Fly is a stunningly accomplished and coherent album that recalls the raw lyricism of such quintessentially American writers as Raymond Carver and Richard Hugo. Johnston sold his family’s Kansas farm to finance the recording of Can You Fly, a fact that’s cited in the record’s opening line and reflected in several autobiographical songs about the guilty downside of pursuing a dream. Elsewhere, Johnston creates rich character studies of people who are vaguely aware that their lives…