{"id":278,"date":"2012-05-05T15:21:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T22:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karney.org\/music\/?p=278"},"modified":"2012-05-05T15:21:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T22:21:27","slug":"all-connected-one-night-stand-weed-and-the-urban-hippie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karney.org\/music\/all-connected-one-night-stand-weed-and-the-urban-hippie\/","title":{"rendered":"All Connected \u2013 ONE-NIGHT STAND Weed and the Urban Hippie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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All Connected \u2013 ONE-NIGHT STAND Weed and the Urban Hippie
\nThe Stranger \u2013 October 24, 2004
\nJennifer Maerz<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a little apprehensive when the music venue I walk into sells incense, candles, and other kinds of urban hippie paraphernalia.<\/p>\n

Mr. Spot\u2019s 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\u2013a folk-rock singer\/ songwriter\u2013had decorated the tables with a big green postcard of The Weed while plugging her single \u201cMy Little Bush.\u201d<\/p>\n

The green bud worked its way into a couple songs, from the aforementioned track\u2013with such sing-along lines as \u201cWeed, weed, it\u2019s what I need\u201d\u2013to critiques of the drug war. Karney and her backup singer\u2013Stand Out Selector, aka Steffan Franz\u2013kept what they called a \u201cconscious vibe\u201d going, with Franz doing occasional dancehall raps behind Karney\u2019s running commentaries about the Columbine shootings or watching her lover during sex, and one song that included the line, \u201cProphecy, harmony, education will set you free.\u201d 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, \u201cThe vibe in the Chai House is hot!\u201d\u2013said vibe probably coming from the dude in the back who yelled, \u201cNice!\u201d to lines like \u201cFree up a little weed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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 \u201cdue to expenses\u201d). Her style reminded me of a wide range of singers who I honestly have to say I only hear at my parents\u2019 house\u2013female artists like the Indigo Girls and Edie Brickell. But if you\u2019re 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.<\/p>\n

\u2013 The Stranger Seattle, WA USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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