Blue Days Black Nights
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| Blue Days Black Nights | ||||
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| Released | July 20, 1999 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 40:12 | |||
| Label | Elektra | |||
| Producer | T-Bone Burnett, Roger Moutenot | |||
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Blue Days Black Nights is the fifth album by singer-songwriter Freedy Johnston. It was released in 1999 on Elektra Records.
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Robert Christgau |  [2] |
| Rolling Stone | [3] |
Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield called Johnston "[a] complete singer-songwriter" who "[u]nlike your typical solo guitar guy… can actually sing." He concluded that "Blue Days Black Nights is his finest bag of tunes since the 1992 cult classic Can You Fly, on which his emotional folk rock really came together."[3]
AllMusic's Jason Ankeny called the album Johnston's "darkest, most understated to date" and "the singer's most intimate effort, largely rejecting the quirky character studies of prior outings in favor of more plainly personal narratives, and revealing new shades of depth and honesty in the process." Concluding that "Blue Days Black Nights possesses a hushed gravity which insinuates itself only over repeated listens."[1]
