Blame Sally

Blame Sally originated in 2000 when four prominent female songwriters from San Francisco—Pam Delgado, Renee Harcourt, Jeri Jones, and Monica Pasqual—launched a series of casual jam sessions. Each already maintained an active solo career throughout the Bay Area, yet the women began gathering multiple times weekly to prepare meals together and exchange original material, gradually shaping a shared style that drew from folk, Americana, and country traditions. The quartet soon embraced the identity of a “living room band,” and their growing regional audience encouraged them to set aside individual projects in favor of capturing a live album that served as the group’s debut release in 2001. Momentum continued as they put out multiple independent recordings before entering a 2009 agreement with Ninth Street Opus, the Berklee-based indie imprint. Their first official album for the label arrived in 2011 under the title Speeding Ticket and a Valentine, marking the fifth full-length project of Blame Sally’s history.