Freedy Johnston’s seminal 1992 album, Can You Fly, is available again for the first time in 25 years. Remastered for compact disc and vinyl, including a clear vinyl first pressing, the 13-song Americana-Rock album will arrive via Sunset Blvd Records on July 11, 2025.

Originally released on Bar/None Records (of Montreal, Yo La Tengo etc.), Can You Fly earned Johnston a major label deal with Elektra Records, for whom he released four albums,

Johnston reflects:

It was the halcyon days. I was taken by surprise, because I’m pretty self-critical.

Co-produced by Joe Jackson bassist Graham Maby, the album features Maby on bass, drummer Brian Doherty (Ben Folds, They Might Be Giants), and Marshall Crenshaw (“Someday, Someway”). The new Can You Fly re-release was mastered for CD and vinyl by Scott Hull (Steely Dan, John Mayer etc.)

Can You Fly includes singles “In the New Sunshine,” with visualizer, and “The Lucky One,” accompanied by its original Peter Feldman-directed video. “The Lucky One” was later covered by Mary Lou Lord, while the album’s “California Thing” appeared on the soundtrack of Heavy, starring Liv Tyler and Deborah Harry.

It’s the only record from Johnston’s fourteen-album catalogue of which he still performs every song on stage (other than “Down in Love,” which is a duet with Syd Straw on Can You Fly).

Johnston adds:

Can You Fly is kinda the core of my life. I hope that some kid in their basement stealing their parents’ vinyl will maybe steal this one!