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X-Blame Sally with Cindy Lee Berryhill

Presented by World Cafe Live

July 21, 2011

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Blame Sally got started in 2000 when Pasqual was putting together musicians to play at a kickoff concert for one of her solo projects. She and Harcourt had known each other since mutually participating in a songwriting competition years before. For this supposedly singular promotional show, Pasqual also enlisted two of the most sought-after side musicians on the scene, her old friends and bandmates Jeri Jones and Pamela Delgado. It was the one-off gig that’s lasted 11 years—and counting.

Cindy Lee Berryhill is a folk-rock singer/songwriter who, although one hates to say it, plays better on paper than on record. Those who bemoan the decline of fresh singer/songwriter talent in the pop and rock mainstream have to admire her obvious respect for classic singer/songwriter values, and her determination to present them in a present-day context that doesn't merely ape the sound of the '60s and '70s. She has the desirable liberal and feminist politics, and is conscious of delivering these with a sense of humor. But her vocals and songwriting, not to mention that sense of humor, are not top-flight enough to make her more than a minor performer, if a periodically engaging one.