Speeding Ticket and a Valentine

The San Francisco Bay Area’s Blame Sally is an all-female quartet who believe in the group dynamic. Each member gets a chance at front-person status and no one hogs the spotlight. Formed in 2000, the band has grown up using a grassroots approach. At a time when so many older (in music years) musicians decide it’s too late to go for the brass ring, Blame Sally see it as living by example. This is a highly skilled roots-rock band that dabbles in folk and R&B. “Living Without You” is the easily accessible rocker. “Wide Open Spaces” is a hard funk with guest Julie Wolf on the Hammond B-3 and singer Renee Harcourt adding the gas. “Take Me There” is the tender ballad from pianist Monica Pasqual. “Big Big Bed” with Jeri Jones on resophonic and electric slide guitar and drummer Pam Delgado on vocals twists up a modern blues that remains two steps away. “Back In the Saddle” trembles with traces of hard rock.