Freedy Johnston, who plays Jack Kerouac House in St. Petersburg, Florida on Feb. 8, 2025. Credit: Photo by Dina Regine

If you judged Freedy Johnston by his Billboard chart appearances, you’d think he was a rocker through and through (the 63-year-old’s 1994 major label debut was produced by Butch Vig and reached no. 54 on the Hot 100).

These days, however, the Kansan wants to show off his folk roots. There aren’t very many better places to put those bonafides to the test than this emergent St. Petersburg songwriters series happening inside the home of late beat icon Jack Kerouac.

Tickets to see Freedy Johnston play Jack Kerouac House in St. Petersburg on Saturday, Feb. 8 are still available and start at $23.17.

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This article appears in Jan 30 – Feb 5, 2025.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...