ARIA GLOBAL
Cup O' Joe, February 20th, 2006
Blame Sally’s self-titled album simultaneously invites and excites: their tight, folk-inspired harmonies evoke the security of a cozy bar, yet jostle and jounce with eclectic energy. At the core of their music churns a saucy mix of seamless vocal harmonies...continued (Nacho Mama's News)

Marin Independent Journal
These girls just wanna have fun
By Elsa Knox Butler, IJ correspondent February 17th, 2005
Blame burnout. That's how four longtime musicians formed the San Francisco band Blame Sally. "We were all sick of the music business, and trying to 'make it,'" says guitar player and Mill Valley resident Renee Harcourt.
"We had all produced CDs and spent a lot of money with no way to market it," says Monica Pasqual, who plays piano. "So we decided Blame Sally was just going to be a fun band no pressure on it...continued


 
Sunday Datebook March 21st, 2004
Admirers of Dar Williams, Jonatha Brooke, Indigo Girls and intelligently emotional, intricately harmonized folk-pop in general will find much to praise in "Blame Sally", the self-titled, self-released first studio recording by an all-female Bay Area quartet that became a KFOG favorite on the strength of a live album. Blame Sally has four strong singer-songwriters and multi-instrumentalists in Pam Delgado, Jeri Jones, Renee Harcourt and Monica Pasqual, and while their individual voices are appealing, their harmonies are addictively creamy. Imaginatively arranged, expansive narrative songs such as"Touch", "Shame" and "Planet Ranch" are radio (and coffee shop) ready. The group performs at a CD-release party April 3 at Broadway Studios in San Francisco. —Joe Brown

Dirty Linen Magazine #115
December 2004/January 2005
…”Blame Sally is Renee Harcourt, Monica Pasqual, Jeri Jones, and Pam Delgado, and like the vintage country rockin’ band Poco, all four play and sing up a storm… [They have] been working (or playing) out the kinks in their syncopated original and intimately quirky narrative material at café’s like the Bazaar, laying low in some of San Francisco’s hurricane-lamped hollows. Their self-released debut in 2001 was even recorded live, absorbing the spark and vibe that catches when these four spirited players pick up their instruments and bend their persona-voices in sensually shaded harmony. …new songs feature a handful of simmering ecstatic breakthroughs like the wildly cathartic “Shame” and iconic Mexican myth of the Weeping Saint, “La Llorona”, along with the subversive gravitas of Pasqual’s “Stupid Mistakes…

Downloads.com: Editor's Highlight
Beautiful harmonies, intricate
instrumental work, smart lyrics, and gently energized
rhythms mark the songs of this San Francisco-based
folk-pop quartet. The four women in the band are each
veteran musicians and songwriters in their own right,
and together they create soulful, complex, finely
crafted music.

Out Smart Magazine Houston
October 2004
"The newest self-titled disc by Blame Sally is a rich and sophisticated effort that blends touches of Tex Mex, folk, and pop for a thoroughly enjoyable listening experience."


San Francisco Magazine
September 2004
The fans who made ladies-only quartet Blame Sally a KFOG favorite (and highlight of the station's new local-bands-only CD) must be loving the band's eponymous studio album. Harmonizing femme-folk integrity with pop playfulness isn't as easy as they make it sound; this is sweet, charming stuff. -Jonathan Kiefer

Bitch Magazine
This disc is a winner
by Heather Seggel August 2004
Without a major or even indie label to promote and distribute their self-released debut album, this quartet of Bay Area women has had to rely on more grassroots techniques. When one local DJ started spinning occasional tracks from their CD on his show, the switchboards lit up with curious, captivated listeners. And no wonder...continued

Curve Magazine
Genre benders make good
July 2004 "...Blame Sally has unleashed 13 well-crafted combinations of pop-motivated folk.  But mostly, these women are just good old storytellers." -Rebecca Jane Alber

East Bay Express
July 2004 "...Blame Sally is solidly folky (and possibley adult alternative, if you like those kinda distinctions) with echoes of Joni, Ani, Fairport Convention, Crosby Stills, Nash and Young and many other stripes of harmonious mellow; the Bay Area quartet got a bit of luck when KFOG's Acoustic Sunrise show, appropriately took a liking to its music..."
-Stefanie Kalem

Spectrum
"...Blame Sally weaves lush guitars and vivid vocals through touching and introspective songs.  Think a sultry post-modern Joni Mitchell meets Indigo Girls.  My top picks: Birds Fly South, Lucky, Stupid Mistakes, Disappear, and Planet Ranch." -DJ Pusspuss Palo Alto Online
Four voices, one vision
Blame Sally returns to Palo Alto for Twilight Concert
by Robyn Israel July 16, 2004
Monica Pasqual fondly remembers the first time her band, Blame Sally, played in Palo Alto. The occasion was last summer's Twilight Concert Series, and even though the conditions were somewhat rudimentary -- there wasn't a stage set up at Peers Park -- the band nevertheless enjoyed the experience...continued