This debut CD "Get Out My Way" is where it all started in 1994. Sista Monica Parker took her band into the studio to produce a corporate CD at Music Annex in Menlo Park, California in late 1994. She had been only performing for two years in the Bay Area starting August 20, 1992. However, in that short period of time Sista Monica had stood in for the legend Etta James, performed at the Monterey Bay Blues Festival and was a phenomenmon in the Santa Cruz and Bay Area of California. She was frequently compared in the beginning to her idols Etta James, Katie Webster and Koko Taylor. As executive producer, she figured out after a couple of recording sessions that the costs of musicians, recording, mixing and mastering was too much for merely a corporate CD to get gigs. She told the band to get serious, start writing and get ready to tour on the CD project. Danny B. her piano collaborated and wrote "Behind My Back" and Ron E. Beck her drummer wrote "Baby Boomer".

She set the tone and affirmed "We are going around the world on this first CD. Sista Monica and band started making lots of noise in Holland -The Netherlands at the Blues Estafette Festival and became a huge hit in Europe. So much so that they invited her and her band to come back again and again until she made a tour of 12 states in The Netherlands. She has toured Turkey, Romania, Switzerland, Norway, Canada, Mexico City and many states in the USA. {She visited list the names of places and place photos on Danny B, Noel and others here.} The title track was written on highway 17 coming from sound check at the Catalyst located in Santa Cruz, California. It was a direct result of the frustration she felt when independent blues record label passed her over for record deals. Parker continued her work as an engineering recruiting consultant in the Silicon Valley for companies such as Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard by day, earning enough money to produce this debut CD.