Product Description Kansas-bred, New York-based Freedy Johnston first came to the attention of critics and discerning pop fans with 2 acclaimed indie releases. With his '94 major label debut (which scored a hit with the brooding single "Bad Reputation"), he increased his audience five-fold and again drew great press. Johnston's 4th album (2nd for Elektra) features the rocking first single/video "On the Way Out," the bittersweet ballads "Western Sky" and "You Get Me Lost," the sardonic "I'm Not Hypnotized" and the wrenching "If It's True." [Note: This product is an authorized CD-R and is manufactured on demand] Amazon.com Possessing a remarkable gift for sterling melodic craft and richly drawn lyrical scenarios, Freedy Johnston remains one of the most compelling songwriters in contemporary American pop. This, his fourth album, is one of his strongest efforts, as impressive for the vividly drawn characters of "Western Sky" and "Hotel Seventeen" as it is for the pure-pop brilliance of "On the Way Out" and "I'm Not Hypnotized." Despite the unlikely presence of middle-of-the-road specialist Danny Kortchmar as producer and guitarist, the songs are well-served by compact, sharply focused arrangements that spotlight the artist's compositional strengths, and Johnston's plaintive, keening vocals possess an understated strength that gives his tunes an added level of urgency. --Scott Schinder
