Rhinestone Tomboy by Mya Byrne

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.

Tracklist

1.	It Don’t Fade	3:27

2.	I’m Gonna Stop	2:34

3.	Autumn Sun	2:25

4.	Devil in My Ear	4:23

5.	Come On	2:13

6.	Curtains	2:48

7.	Smoke and Bones	4:08

8.	Lend You a Hand	3:29

9.	Please Call Me Darling	4:14

10.	Sweetheart of Mine	2:16

11.	Don't Hold Your Fire	4:23

12.	That’s What Lucky Means	2:14

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Credits

released April 28, 2023

Produced by AARON LEE TASJAN
Recorded and mixed at MAKE SOUND GOOD, Nashville
by GREGORY LATTIMER

"That’s What Lucky Means" recorded at THE REDSTONE BUILDING, San Francisco
Additional recording by MYA BYRNE and SCOTT STEIN

Mastered by AMY DRAGON at TELEGRAPH MASTERING, Portland

Photography by LAUREN TABAK
Album design by ROB JONES

All songs written by MYA BYRNE
STRANGER'S GATE PRODUCTIONS, ASCAP
except Sweetheart of Mine, by MYA BYRNE and KAREN DAHLSTROM
and That’s What Lucky Means, by MYA BYRNE and LINDA MCRAE

To the memory of Patrick Haggerty, Blackberri, & Ed Tristram

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