The Other Women came about from a confidential social experiment John Dunbar of The John Sally Ride has been conducting over the years. Upon meeting a woman whose name is associated with an iconic song, he inquires about their opinion of that particular tune. He is met with an identical response each time. They detest them. Most of them laying the blame on the constant, cliched response of people breaking into the song's chorus upon learning their name. John decided to give himself a musical challenge. Write new songs using those names in the title, but with a contrasting theme. The objective being to give the sufferers another musical option, or an additional song to loathe

You’ll meet Renee who is being told to run away from her current unsuitable partner.
You’ll hear about Christine Sixty who continually upstages younger women, and the man who has been waiting to be by her side for three decades.
You’ll learn about Mean Caroline who discovered that being a goody goody was no good for her.
You’ll hear about Rosie who will remain a mystery, and be your friend, but not sisterly, so you only get a little bit of her.
You’ll relate to the pleads for Little Susie to go to sleep.
You’ll encounter Sheena who thinks punk is too dumb so she is a Prog rocker.


Dunbar apprehensively presented the song cycle premise to the other members of the John Sally Ride with a fear they might find it too gimmicky. To his delight he was met with “Let’s do it.”
But a funny thing happened on the way to record the album, scheduling, timing, logistics, reconsiderations and one member deciding to part from the party, led to delays upon delays. While waiting for the issues to be resolved, Dunbar released a second Elvis Eno album titled Unwittingly.
After finishing the record, things still hung in the balance.
John starting getting restless so he decided to go into the band’s beloved studio, Soundtronics, and finish the album by himself, with the band’s blessing.
John is staunchly anti-acronym and never liked when people referred to The John Sally Ride as JSR. Yet, he is putting this album out under the JSR moniker since it was an intended John Sally Ride album, but this time the acronym can stand for John’s Solitary Ridiculousness, John’s Solo Release, John’s Silly Reasoning, whatever seems appropriate.