Press

New York Daily Music: https://newyorkmusicdaily.wordpress.com/tag/tami-johnson-drums/

"Drummer Tami Johnson keeps a stark, practically hypnotic beat as the album’s first track, Back Down to the Dirt gets underway: frontwoman/guitarist Karen Pittelman’s wary, soaring voice delivers an aphoristic, metaphorically-charged cautionary tale. Producer Charles Burst plays bass; on the rest of the album, Gerard Kouwenhoven keeps the four-string groove going."

Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/karen-and-the-sorrows-guaranteed-broken-heart-video-new-album-899219/

"Loss is a backdrop and a recurring theme on Guaranteed Broken Heart. Pittelman’s longtime bandmates Elana Redfield and Tami Johnson departed the band before recording, leaving the songwriter to recruit members of New York’s thriving country and bluegrass communities to play. It even expands the group’s stylistic palette from country-rock: on the stripped-down “Why Won’t You Come Back to Me,” fiddle and banjo are added to acoustic guitar and Pittelman’s haunted vocals for a hypnotic, dirge-like effect."

Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country-lists/10-new-country-artists-you-need-to-know-september-2017-199288/karen-and-the-sorrows-111248/

"Hear for Yourself: “Back Down to the Dirt,” with its desolate lead guitar work, is a sinewy, agitated tune about losing everything and seeing the way forward through the destruction."

Noisey - Music by Vice: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d388mm/karen-and-the-sorrows-kick-dirt-in-the-face-of-the-mainstream-with-their-new-video

"But back to the video. According to Karen, the idea was all Tami's, the drummer for the band and a fairly accurate human version of Animal from The Muppets. It features the trio playing solemnly in a plant nursery surrounded by, you guessed it, dirt."

WNYC - The Takeaway: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/karen-and-sorrows-reinventing-country-music-new-age

"The band Karen and The Sorrows, named a country group to watch by Rolling Stone, just released their second album last month, called "The Narrow Place." Sometimes people put country music in a narrow place — but this band does everything in their power to escape that.

Here, band members Karen Pittleman, Tami Johnson, Elana Redfield, and Gerard Kouwenhoven weigh in on the changing sound of country, and their new album."

The Daily Country: http://thedailycountry.com/interviewsessential-8/essential-8-karen-pittelman

"What’s the best advice you have ever gotten from another musician?

Sometimes my drummer Tami just yells “FEMINISM” at me when I’m feeling unsure of myself. It’s oddly effective."

No Depression: https://www.nodepression.com/album-reviews/with-new-lineup-karen-the-sorrows-fulfill-promise-of-guaranteed-broken-heart/

"While Karen & the Sorrows has always stood for a wider, more radical vision of country music, 2019 has seen some major changes for the band. Elana Redfield’s swooning pedal steel and Tami Johnson’s lockstep drumming were key features of the Sorrows’ sorrow: with their departures, Pittelman has pulled a reverse Dylan and traded in pedal steel for a ghostly string section. While it’s a bit of an adjustment for the longtime listener, Pittelman (who produced the album) and sound engineer/percussionist Charles Burst give the strings an expansiveness in their delicate layering, creating a canvas of Lovecraftian proportions to paint on. This is especially true on “Your New Life Now,” which seems to sit at the album’s crossroads, daring us to choose the paths least traveled — or to explore new ventures through the ones we know well."