For those unaware, Karney’s brand new album One True Song (out July 18th, 2025) features several prominent Bay Area musicians, together showcasing an extraordinary blend of soulful folk rock and alternative singer/songwriter acoustic arrangements, while rock steady bass lines wind through an eclectic range of driving and groovy rhythms.

James Deprato (Chuck Prophet Band) plays electric and acoustic guitar and is the featured lead player across the album. He has played on several KARNEY releases, as has guitarist Erik Smyth (Mo’Fessionals). This is Erik’s third album with Karney, and he also accompanies her live as The Karney Acoustic Duo.

One True Song features bassists Kevin White (Chuck Prophet Band) and Uriah Duffy (Fantastic Negrito, Whitesnake), drummer and percussionist Kyle Capistra (Mercy and the Heartbeats), Phillip Bennet (Jefferson Starship) on Hammond organ and keys, and KARNEY band newcomers violinist Anthony Blea (John Santos Sextet) and Faisal Sedan (The Qadim Ensemble) on darbuka drum, Arabic riq, and frame drum.

Anna Karney’s lyrical content offers an impassioned and straightforward approach to many of the issues facing people today. Her influences include Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Patti Smith, John Lennon, Sheryl Crow, Chrissie Hynde, and Joni Mitchell. As an arranger, pianist, and guitarist, she has worked with artists such as George Clinton, Linda Perry, and Dennis Bovell.

1. One True Song
2. Gave My Guitar Away
3. Suspended
4. Freedom Summer
5. Out Of Body 2025
6. Eos
7. Gave My Guitar Away (acoustic version)
8. Freedom Summer (acoustic version)
9. One True Song (acoustic version)

This diligently sculpted, yet thoroughly impassioned new recording opens on the languishing beauty of the Carole King-esque One True Song and the foot to the floor rocker Gave My Guitar Away and then we get the rambunctiously sculpted Suspended, some free flowing storytelling that drives Freedom Summer and the propulsive, Asian-hued Out Of Body [2025], the mid-tempo breeze of Eos, before the new set rounds out on acoustic versions of Gave My Guitar Away, Freedom Summer and One True Song.

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