Way I Were

Freedy Johnston | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 9, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bar/None Records
• ASIN: B0002XEDQW
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #59,549 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this record!, November 19, 2004

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Jane Smith (Nyack, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Way I Were (Audio CD)

I've been a fan of Freedy's since his first record and am happy to hear some NEW, OLD songs. The sound is raw and emotional and the songwriting is, as usual, excellent...Enchanted Car, Love Songs About Girls, I Do I Do, Man with the Four-Stroke Heart are some of my favorites. The feeling of the record is intimate - like being at a great live show. Buy this record if you loved Can You Fly.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Past Perfect and not tooTense, November 18, 2004

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Virgil Hilt (NY,NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Way I Were (Audio CD)

Although I have been a big fan of Freedy's previous work, he has clearly evolved in a more mature direction, with an emphasis on craft. That stuff's great, but I can't deny that I have missed the youthful exuberance of his earliest recordings (or what I thought were his earliest recordings). That is why this collection is such a welcome addition; it's clearly the result of someone who's having fun and not taking himself too seriously-and it all works perfectly. This man can write songs-and they come across with a splashy immediacy on The Way I Were. All his styles are in the house here- Straight up rock songs with bizarre stories and shovels of lyrics shoehorned in, appalachian porch torch songs, bent country, gorgeous ballads, and always the beautiful losers who we've come to love from his other records. But this time with a crazy, refreshing spontaniety. A keeper.

5 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This is not a new cd with new material, November 17, 2004

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S. Hemmerle - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Way I Were (Audio CD)

Since this CD wasn't reviewed I incorrectly thought it was a new cd from one of my favorite performers, Freedy Johnston. It is a collection of old demo tapes from the eighties to the early nineties instead. The sound quality sounds like the original demo tapes and the material is not refined and sounds mostly like fractured ideas instead of songs.