The thing you’ll understand about Karen is that she isn’t anybody else. She doesn’t come from a soft place and the first time I heard her sing in a coffee house on Litchfield St, I heard a hint of Billie Holliday in “the finish”… a velvet, bluesy sound… but it was only later that I knew something more.
In this clone world it isn’t cool to be natural. But anyone who can take you to several places within a few minutes has something unusual and that is what tips you on your head. Karen laughs with an audience because she connects with people easily but somehow that same laughter melds into something deeper when she sings her own songs. Listen to “Goodbye 31” and “Speak The Truth” and maybe you will feel it too.
I once asked an old music biz friend of mine how it had been when he saw Karen playing a tough gig in London…
“The thing was”, he said , “they were just ignoring the other acts but when Karen started to sing, they shut up.”
The thing you’ll understand about Karen is that she isn’t anybody else. She doesn’t come from a soft place and the first time I heard her sing in a coffee house on Litchfield St, I heard a hint of Billie Holliday in “the finish”… a velvet, bluesy sound… but it was only later that I knew something more.