Can You Fly

Can You Fly is the second album by singer-songwriter Freedy Johnston released in 1992 on Bar/None Records.

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".

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

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

Kristi Coulter of Allmusic wrote, "A giant step forward from his likeable but ragged debut, Freedy Johnston's Can You Fly is a stunningly accomplished and coherent album that recalls the raw lyricism of such quintessentially American writers as Raymond Carver and Richard Hugo."

Andy Gill of the Independent hailed the album saying, "Can You Fly is full of Costelloid little depictions of uncertainty. He has a gift, too, for odd verbal juxtapositions, searching for new expression rather than employing the re- arrangement of old cliches. A small gem."

All songs written by Freedy Johnston.