Freedy Johnston performed at the Hoboken Art and Music Festival
May 9th, 2012 by Mr. C
Freedy Johnston – born & raised in Kansas but rooted in Hoboken, NJ – performed at the Hoboken Art and Music Festival last Sunday! His ordinary look with subtle vocals always finds a way to paint the town with emotions through the use of his lyrics!
Freedy was the (I stand corrected by Chocko – Yo La Tengo was THE 1st-August 1992) one of the first live acts that introduced us to CBGB’s in the early 1990’s and we were instantly hooked with the venue and his somber but catchy power folk/rock tunes. Yes, we also got into the grunge scene with the likes of Soundgarden, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, & Alice in Chains but I was secretly playing Freedy’s “Can you Fly” (1992) album with The Lucky One on continuous loop. (note: The Lemonhead’s “It’s a shame about Ray” got some serious play, too!) Johnston’s melodies and meaty freedy hooks combined with his storytelling vocals to his words of love, loss, coming of age, rebounds, & disappointments in life always garners some feelings in these icy veins. Some of my favorite albums of his are: Can you Fly (1992), This Perfect World (1994), Blue Days Black Nights (1999), & Rain on the City (2009).
Freedy’s set list from the Hoboken Art & Music Festival includes:
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I’m not hypnotized
Don’t fall in love w a lonely girl
Love grows where my rosemarie goes – Edison Lighthouse cover
Rain on the city
Lucky one
Wichita lineman – (Jimmy Web cover recorded later by Glen Campbell)
Bad reputation
Perfect world
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Check out some footage that we took at the performance:
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(Aldo “ZAR” Sanchez – old skool Graffiti writer from Paterson,NJ)
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