All Connected – Not Your Average Pop Junk
Collected Sounds – November 22, 2003
Amy – Producer

Wow, this CD hits you right out of the gate. The opening track has gutsy powerful vocals and a cool dissonance that makes you ready to rock.

I’ve reviewed Karney’s work before and liked her other CD, “Karney” but this one is even better.

She has a great soulful voice and the music is unique and interesting. Not your average pop junk. It “goes places” you don’t expect which I find very refreshing. They make good use of the minor chord. The songs range from hard rock to ballads and they’re all done very well.

“Out of Body” is probably my favorite, but also very good are, “Going” which has a bit of a retro feel to it and “Drug War” with its reggae rhythm. “My Little Bush” is a clever (also reggae) tune not about what you think (ok, maybe it is). The rest of the songs keep up with the great first track and make for a great good rock album.

– Collected Sounds – A Guide to Women in Music

All Connected – My Little Bush
Weed World

Indie rocker Karney has teamed up with PSM recordings to produce this single ‘My Little Bush’ which is a light hearted look at a very sobering topic. On this track she’s teamed up with reggae artist Standout Selector and has used the engineering talents of reggae veteran Dennis Bovell. The track is very catchy and the lyrics pull you in and make you listen unlike other popular music where the words just seems to wash over you in the background. A good track that will definitely get your foot a tappin’ to a cool reggae beat – check it out.

– Weed World, Coventry, UK

All Connected – ONE-NIGHT STAND Weed and the Urban Hippie
The Stranger – October 24, 2004
Jennifer Maerz

I’m a little apprehensive when the music venue I walk into sells incense, candles, and other kinds of urban hippie paraphernalia.

Mr. Spot’s Chai House gave me flashbacks of going to school in the hacky-sack capital of the West Coast, Santa Cruz. From the yellow walls to the dizzying disco ball, the place screamed Guatemalan pants and bong hits. So I guess it was only fitting that San Francisco-based Karney–a folk-rock singer/ songwriter–had decorated the tables with a big green postcard of The Weed while plugging her single “My Little Bush.”

The green bud worked its way into a couple songs, from the aforementioned track–with such sing-along lines as “Weed, weed, it’s what I need”–to critiques of the drug war. Karney and her backup singer–Stand Out Selector, aka Steffan Franz–kept what they called a “conscious vibe” going, with Franz doing occasional dancehall raps behind Karney’s running commentaries about the Columbine shootings or watching her lover during sex, and one song that included the line, “Prophecy, harmony, education will set you free.” Franz looked like a Latino John Lovitz and sounded like a Rastafarian with a cold, and he was having fun, at one point yelling out, “The vibe in the Chai House is hot!”–said vibe probably coming from the dude in the back who yelled, “Nice!” to lines like “Free up a little weed.”

Karney is a charismatic singer with a wide vocal range, a powerful delivery, and a skill for writing dark melodies fitting for the heavier subjects she was tackling. Listening to her sing made me think a woman this confident was born to perform with a full band (which I later found out she already has, but left behind on this Seattle trip “due to expenses”). Her style reminded me of a wide range of singers who I honestly have to say I only hear at my parents’ house–female artists like the Indigo Girls and Edie Brickell. But if you’re into the weed-smoking, liberal consciousness, urban hippie folk-rock kind of thing, Karney plans on heading back up to the Northwest some time soon.

– The Stranger Seattle, WA USA