Freedy Johnston at The Bitter End

Freedy Johnston and his band are performing his acclaimed 1992 album Can You Fly—start to finish—with the original players! The show will be professionally recorded and filmed, and it may be the last chance to see this lineup perform the album live. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience a classic record brought to life exactly as it was meant to be.Freedy Johnston is a singer-songwriter originally from Kinsley, Kansas. A town 1,561 miles from both New York and San Francisco. He moved to New York in the 1980's and worked as an office temp for a few years before landing a deal with Bar None Records in Hoboken...

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Freedy Johnston and his band are performing his acclaimed 1992 album Can You Fly—start to finish—with the original players! The show will be professionally recorded and filmed, and it may be the last chance to see this lineup perform the album live. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience a classic record brought to life exactly as it was meant to be.Freedy Johnston is a singer-songwriter originally from Kinsley, Kansas. A town 1,561 miles from both New York and San Francisco. He moved to New York in the 1980's and worked as an office temp for a few years before landing a deal with Bar None Records in Hoboken. His second record for them was his breakthrough album, 1992's Can You Fly. He then signed to Elektra Records and in 1994 worked with producer Butch Vig on his biggest record, This Perfect World, which featured the radio hit “Bad Reputation”, and earned him Rolling Stone's Songwriter of the Year award for 1994. His songs were featured in the movies “Kingpin”, “Kicking and Screaming” and “Heavy”.

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