Don't Blame Me is a 1995 solo guitar album Marc Ribot and released on the Japanese DIW label.

But those are standards with a secret agenda: they were all covered before me by Thelonius Monk or Albert Ayler.

[3] The AllMusic review by Brian Beatty stated: "Though probably a must-have for completists and ardent fans of New York City's downtown avant-garde, Don't Blame Me isn't the place for the uninitiated to begin".

[4] Writing in The Village Voice, Gary Giddins wrote: "Ribot suggested a new potential in his playing.

Here is a disc that consists chiefly of standards, and actually mines them for something beyond their usual glibness of theme and variations.