Album: Rain on the City
Year: 2010
Of course This Perfect World didn’t make Freedy Johnston into a household word. We’re long past the age of singer-songwriters, and even guy with a misspelled first name and an extra letter in his last name wasn’t going to get around that plain historical fact, no matter how good his songwriting was.
Which isn’t to say that Freedy didn’t remain a helluva cult artist, and while the albums he followed up This Perfect World with — 1997’s Never Home, 1999’s Blue Days, Black Nights, and 2001’s Right Between The Promises — all had their pleasures, you could see the Law of Diminishing Returns set in.
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