Can You Fly

Can You Fly
Studio album by Freedy Johnston
Released April 14, 1992
Recorded January 1991-December 1991
Genre Alternative
Length 49:42
Label Bar/None
Producer Graham Maby, Knut Bohn
Freedy Johnston chronology
The Trouble Tree
(1990)
Can You Fly
(1992)
This Perfect World
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]
Robert ChristgauA+[2]
Fast Folk(favorable) [3]

Can You Fly is the second album by singer-songwriter Freedy Johnston. It was released in 1992 on Bar/None Records. Robert Christgau called it "a perfect album".

In order to finance the recording of the album, Johnston sold some farmland that he inherited from his grandfather. This decision is mentioned in the opening lines of the first track, "Trying to Tell You I Don't Know".[4]

The song "California Thing" appeared on the soundtrack of the film Heavy, starring Liv Tyler and Deborah Harry.

"The Lucky One" was covered by Mary Lou Lord on her 1998 album Got No Shadow.

Track listing

All songs written by Freedy Johnston.

  1. "Trying to Tell You I Don't Know" – 4:24
  2. "In the New Sunshine" – 2:45
  3. "Tearing Down This Place" – 4:10
  4. "Remember Me" – 2:54
  5. "Wheels" – 3:18
  6. "The Lucky One" – 3:09
  7. "Can You Fly" – 4:34
  8. "Responsible" – 5:28
  9. "The Mortician's Daughter" – 3:56
  10. "Sincere" – 4:18
  11. "Down in Love" – 3:04
  12. "California Thing" – 3:03
  13. "We Will Shine" – 4:39

Personnel

References

  1. Coulter, Kristi. Can You Fly at AllMusic. Retrieved August 3, 2015.
  2. Christgau, Robert. "Freedy Johnston". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  3. Allen, Jim, "The Ten Best Albums of 1992", Fast Folk Musical Magazine, 6:9-10, (February 1993) p.12-13
  4. O'Dair, Barbara. "This Perfect World", Rolling Stone, July 14, 1994, p. 102.
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