Rhinestone Tomboy Mya Byrne

• 1 It Don’t Fade 03:27
• 2 I’m Gonna Stop 02:34
• 3 Autumn Sun 02:25
• 4 Devil in My Ear 04:23
• 5 Come On 02:13
• 6 Curtains 02:48
• 7 Smoke and Bones 04:08
• 8 Lend You a Hand 03:29
• 9 Please Call Me Darling 04:14
• 10 Sweetheart of Mine 02:16
• 11 Don’t Hold Your Fire 04:23
• 12 That’s What Lucky Means 02:14
• Total Runtime 38:34

Info for Rhinestone Tomboy

Playing Americana steeped with potent branches of blues, rock, glam and country music, Byrne is every bit the voice of the outsider that built the foundation of the genre, where we behold stages beaming with the light of those who are so willing to stand tall and confident in the entirety of their truth. Here Byrne stands too. Americana has many champions, but there are scarce few like Byrne; a queer trans woman creating ripples that will find themselves born again and again as waves.

On "Rhinestone Tomboy," we are treated to a portrait painted with shades of Byrne’s youth, one spent listening to stacks of her mama’s dusty 45s, and thrift store 8-tracks blasting from blown speakers out the window of an old Chevy. Songs that opened the trailhead to a lifelong journey that informed Byrne’s musical landscape.

"This record sits so comfortably amongst the branches of the rock’n’roll family tree, its innovation is kind of hard to spot. But there’s something in the breaking down of divisions between ‘styes’ or ‘genres’ or whatever you want to call them, that speaks to who Byrne is and what she’s up to as an artist. On a tune like “Please Call Me Darlin,” the chords, the structure, the tone are all familiar, but a classic country tune in which the orator is championing compassionate, emotionally literate communication – now that’s hard to find in the Hall of Fame. As Tasjan says, “If our goal as a society is to become softer, more loving and more accepting of each other, we need artists like Mya Byrne, who possesses these qualities, to help lead us on our mission.” And if that’s the mission that Mya Byrne is on, then this album is a bold and hopeful proof that she is more than fit for the task." (rainbowrodeomag.com)

Mya Byrne

Mya Byrne
is a celebrated Americana singer-songwriter and firecracker guitarist, combining influences from countrypolitan to glam-pop, blues, and ghostly incantations into a singular voice and vision, with elements of John Prine’s whimsy, Leonard Cohen’s spiritual gravitas, Dylan’s wit, and Lucinda Williams’ aching sensuality. Like a crackling backyard fire outside of a city at dusk, stars on one side of the sky and light pollution on the other, Mya’s music is in the pocket of traditional country and Americana, yet firmly rooted in the modern world.

Mimi’s second solo album, “Rhinestone Tomboy”, produced by Grammy-nominated songwriter Aaron Lee Tasjan, was praised by All Things Considered, Rolling Stone, and No Depression, among others. She’s spent the last year performing as an opener or featured act at many sold out shows, including an appearance at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena for the Love Rising benefit, which was lauded by NPR’s Ann Powers as an event highlight.

Her videos from Rhinestone Tomboy were in constant rotation on CMT, and she is the first out queer trans woman to be an official Gibson Guitars artist.

Her work both on and offstage for social justice drives her passionate, fiery music, and she’s an absolute sweetheart who will make you cookies at midnight if you ask nicely.

This album contains no booklet.