Record of the Day-012: Sally’s Dream

Sally’s Dream is the all-female punk band I wish I’d known about when I was hanging out at punk clubs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the 80s. I wish I would have seen them.

Unfortunately, it took till now to finally get the record out, but it’s just as awesome today as it was then.

Ironically, this foursome was made up of Cynthia Hammond (Bass, keyboards, guitar and vocals) Jenny Davis (Keyboards, bass, guitar, and vocals) Emily Jackson on drums, and Chrissie Dickinson on guitar and vocals.

If the name of the last band member sounds familiar – Chrissie Dickinson had written for the Chicago Tribune (as well as a number of other music outlets) for years, and was a member of the TONE staff for a few years, covering country and Americana. All the times we talked, she never mentioned the project.

Even more ironically, after a couple year hiatus, Chrissie and I had a lovely conversation one afternoon about her coming back to TONE. I made the joke that Tap’s “Sex Farm” was big in Japan and we needed to get the band back together again. She laughed and said she’d be more than interested. Two weeks later on May 19, 2022, the news of her sudden death was the first thing I saw on Facebook that morning. Later in the afternoon, I found out another friend passed the same day. Yikes.

But Chrissie’s good friend Cynthia Hammond kept the dream of this album alive with the rest of the bandmates and after all these years, have finally released it on Bandcamp as a CD or download.

The music stands up. It’s fast, thrashy, a bit irreverent and in your face – as a good punk record should be. Man, I wish I could have seen them back in the day. Photo courtesy of the band…

https://sallysdreamtheband.bandcamp.com/album/breaking-through