Background
"I Don't Blame You" was the last song written for You Are Free. "I remember when I was at the piano and we were mixing and I kept playing it over and over and over while no one was there," Marshall revealed in a 2003 Pitchfork interview. "They were playing ping-pong and stuff. So I just asked, 'Can I record this song real quick?'" In the same interview, Marshall revealed that "I Don't Blame You" was her favorite song on the album because "it's the freshest in my memory."
Three years later, Marshall's affection for the song had not diminished, and she cited it as her favorite song to perform live, in an interview with Salon.
In an interview with Helter Skelter, Marshall revealed that she wanted "I Don't Blame You" to be a single. However, no single was released for the song, and a music video was never made.
A live version of the song, performed by Marshall on electric guitar in a forest in Mexico, appears on the 2004 Cat Power DVD, Speaking for Trees: A Film by Mark Borthwick.
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