Album Notes

The Story of Blame Sally Blame Sally is a San Francisco super-group of sorts. This "girl-band" is distinguished by the fact that all four women are exceptional songwriters, instrumentalists and vocalists. They all contribute songs and arrangements, switch off lead vocals and trade instruments.

Though all of them have lead their own bands, in the fall of 2000 these four friends decided to come together and create a 'living room band", hanging out a couple of times a week, cooking dinner, drinking wine and teaching each other new material. Before long, the just-for-fun project was drawing large crowds of fans at some San Francisco's premier acoustic venues (Noe Valley Ministry and the Freight and Salvage, for example).

By May of 2001, the band had developed such a distinctive and cohesive sound, they decided to record a live CD. They played two shows in Berkeley, California, from which the 11 tracks on Live No. 1 were culled.

That CD is currently getting airplay on San Francisco's most popular rock station. DJ Rosalie Howarth wrote the following about Blame Sally:

"Whenever I play a song from "Live #1" by Blame Sally, I just wait and watch the phones and sure enough before the song is over they start blinking...."who IS that woman singing?" Several e-mails usually follow. These are all new fans, too, not members of Monica Pasqual's already substantial fanbase. What a classy record; such good production and instrumentation that it's hard to believe it's live!" Rosalie Howarth, KFOG,104.5 San Francisco


About the players in Blame Sally:

Renee Harcourt: Songwriter, singer, guitarist and bassist.
Her songs have appeared on numerous soundtracks and television shows. She is a partner in PopTuna, a music production company creating soundtracks for film, television and web.

Monica Pasqual: Songwriter, singer, pianist and keyboardist Her versatile musical career includes leading two bands under her own name before Blame Sally as well as creating music for film, television, multi-media and dance. Like Harcourt, her songs have appeared on numerous soundtracks and television shows and she is also a partner at PopTuna.

Jeri Jones: Guitarist, bassist, singer and songwriter. A musician's musician, Jones has played in many choice projects in Northern and Central California, including Jill Knight, Erin Corday and Monica Pasqual's bands. With Pam Delgado, she created Blue Water Triplets.

Pam Delgado: Songwriter, singer and percussionist.
Her flexible voice can wrap itself around almost any style convincingly. As the lead vocalist in Blue Water Triplets, Delgado earned the devotion of fans up and down the California Coast.