MYROL
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Maverick Country Music Magazine
Editor: Alan Cackett
www.alancackett.net
MYROL
Great country harmonies married to well-written songs and superb musical accompaniment.
The project is a distinctive vocal sound only close family members can. They’ve been described as alt. country sweethearts, but in reality, they are pure country, very much in the vein of the Judds or the Sweethearts of the Rodeo. This, their debut album is completely self penned by Joanne with Haley helping out with Paper This Walls. That song typifies the whole record, a strident beat, great harmonies, Dobro to the fore and a sparse arrangement. - Maverick Country Music Magazine UK
There's a lot of really strong stuff here...the slow and haunting Somewhere Inside and the bluesy, honky tonk tune Southrailway & Second Street are highlight moments, followed closely by the edgy Paper Thin Walls. The hands-down winner on the album comes in the hurtin' tune If Hearts Could Really Be Broken, and this one deserves to be a radio hit. - Country Music News - March 2007
"This Unforgettable mother daughter duo will you begging for more once you've listened to their original songs sung with harmonies that only family can create." - Jennifer Cormier
"Pure Canadian country! Songwriting and smooth vocals make this album a pleasure to listen to. Kudos..!" - Terri Clark
This is a wonderful creative album indeed and received a lot of attention in my office. "Myrol" from Myrol. This is just what we and our listeners are looking for. - PBS FM- Peter Merritt - Melbourne Australia
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- New Music Weekly
CANADIAN AIRPLAY: ROOTS MUSIC REPORT
Week Ending 12/21/07
Ranking: Artist: CD Title: Label: Genre:
1 MYROL MYROL ICON True Country
2 MYROL YOUR HEART IS MY HEART TOO COLUMBUS True Country
3 HAL WILLIS BETTER N EVER PEARL INTERNATIONAL True Country
4 HAL WILLIS A CUT ABOVE PEARL INTERNATIONAL True Country
5 COLIN LINDEN EASIN' BACK TO TENNESSEE TRUE NORTH Blues
TOP 100 OVERALL AIRPLAY: ROOTS MUSIC REPORT
http://www.rootsmusicreport.com
Generated on: Thursday 06th of December 2007 06:13:19 PM
TW LW Artist: CD Title: Label: Weeks On: Location:
1 1 REBA MCENTIRE DUETS MCA 25 TN
2 2 STONEWALL JACKSON SUPER FRIENDS BEMG 13 TN
3 3 DIERKS BENTLEY LONG TRIP ALONE CAPITOL 58 AR
4 7 CHERYL K WARNER DREAMS WHP 35 TN
5 9 BROOKS & DUNN HILLBILLY DELUXE ARISTA 58 TN
6 10 GARTH BROOKS THE ULTIMATE GARTH LCT 12 OK
7 6 GEORGE STRAIT IT JUST COMES NATURAL MCA NASHVILLE 58 TX
8 11 TOBY KEITH BIG DOG DADDY SELF 42 TN
9 4 MIRANDA LAMBERT CRAZY EX GIRLFRIEND SONY NASHVILLE 26 TX
10 12 KENNY CHESNEY KENNY CHESNEY LIVE BNA 58 TN
11 0 MYROL MYROL ICON 35 CANADA
24 0 MYROL YOUR HEART IS MY HEART TOO COLUMBUS 20 CANADA
EMCA CHARTS TOP 50 (week of 3/19/2007)
UNITED KINGDOM
This list shows what are the most played songs this week. The above Top-100 shows an average of the last three weeks.
64 Myrol Mother daughter
- Roots Musc Report
"Absolutely Brilliant…chills ... chills ! ...
Songwriters create and work over hundreds of perfect songs ... and then one day the universal muse delivers such a great one. I think even someone in Austin would understand the fragility of an ice bridge." Tom Coxworth Folk Routes CKUA Radio
The Mighty Peace - Awarded 2nd in The Billboard World Songwriting Contest in the Americana and Roots Category; and Awarded The Calgary Folk Festival Songwriting Competition's BEST SONG AWARD; and also awarded 1st Runner Up in The BEST ALBERTA SONG Category in The Calgary Folk Festival Songwriting Competition
Beatroute Magazine
http://www.beatroute.ca/view_archived_article.php?id=48§ionID=5&articleID=1768
The evening began with Myrol, a country folk outfit from Edmonton based around the songwriting and vocal talents of Joanne and Haley Myrol. The mother and daughter led quartet performed admirably...the pair was wonderful. The inclusion of Gord Matthews was a wise decision. If the name doesn't sound familiar to you, it should - Matthews has spent several years backing up such notable performers as Ian Tyson and k.d. lang. He was a member of the Reclines and is an amazing musician in his own right.
Massimo Ferro – Italy
"Highway 61" and "A World of Music"
http://www.whoisontour.eu/blog.html
"Your Heart Is My Heart Too" is one of the best country album I received this year and it was such a great pleasure to play it in my radio show of American roots based music here."
- various
European Reviews
1. Maverick Country Music Magazine
Editor: Alan Cackett
www.alancackett.net
The writing team is led by Editor Alan Cackett who was previously the senior writer for country Music International. Prior to that, for 20 years he was one of the main contributors to Country Music People, authored the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music, and recently wrote the artists biographies on the BBC Radio 2 Country Music website
MYROL
Great country harmonies married to well-written songs and superb musical accompaniment
Myrol is Canadian mother and daughter duo Joanne & Haley Myrol. Mum has been singing, performing and touring for several years fronting various country-styled bands across the North Country.
The project is a distinctive vocal sound only close family members can. They’ve been descried as alt.country sweethearts, but in reality, they are pure country, very much in the vein of the Judds or the Sweethearts of the Rodeo. This, their debut album is completely self penned by Joanne with Haley helping out with Paper This Walls. That song typifies the whole record, a strident beat, great harmonies, Dobro to the fore and a sparse arrangement. Lyrically, the songs mainly explore relationship issues, from the emotion upheaval of letting go of your offspring in Mother Daughter, the dutiful stay at home wife fighting back in It Don’t Work That Way or the kiss-off to the guy who’s just walked out of with You Made Me Hard. Joanne also revisits Alberta where she grew up with the fond remembrance of a sixteen year old in Summer then dancing and drinking the night away in Southrailway & Second Street.
Some of Canada’s finest musicians provided the superb accompaniment including Gord Matthews (lead, rhythm guitar, Dobro) Ted Herebenuik (bass) Chad Melchert (drums) Tony Michael (fiddle and Mandolin) John Towill (bass) Thom Moon (drums) and Harpdog Brown (mouthharp) Matthews really makes the disc with his Dobro and guitar picking. There are a couple of “hidden’ tracks, the autobiographical This Old Guitar and the beautiful A Mother’s Prayer. Regularly coming into contact with performers on the outer fringes of successful careers, I found The Beat Goes On a most telling song. We’ve all seen them, driving from one gig to another, playing to a small, but dedicated audience, and never quite making that gigantic leap from cult hero to well-established star. It has little to do with talent, but everything to do with luck, timing and a fickle steadfastly ignoring the genuine talented singers, songwriters and musicians pounding the highways with the next to nothing when it comes to financial rewards. At this time, Joanne and Haley Myrol are very much in that category, but on the basis of this excellent album, deserve to be up there with the best. So go out and buy this CD and help make it happen for them. AC
This is the article that appeared in the november 2006 edition of Country Gazette - written by the editor himself Hans van Dam
his is the translation :
Myrol is a mother/daughter duo from Canada. They share their love for country and take that feeling into their songs and music.
Our country has already heard them before, these classy ladies, mostly in the north of our country. In february there will be a more extended tour, says Eric Merveulen (McEnt Management)
Myrol is (mother) Joanne and (daughter) Haley. Their songs, the musicians and their producers are 100% percent canadian.
Joanne wrote every song and once daughter Haley cooperated in "Paper thin Walls"
Two very good voices that harmonize beatifully. Comparision to the Judds are not out of place in songs like "Somewhere inside" -very real. With their canadian musicians, Myrol is somewhere between acoustics and electric country. The two very beautiful the way they bring it. Joanne is not unknowm among her canadian colleagues and wrote songs for a.o. Fred J Eaglesmith, Larry dea, Lisa Brokop.
11 songs on this CD, amont which "Mother Daughter", "You made me hard", Summer". Neverthless they keep something hidden for those who wait a little after the last song 'The Beat goes on", gets -after a minute's waiting- two acoustics tracks, good for aorund 7 minutes. Those who want to know the titels of those and the lyrics have to go to www.myrolmusic.com Most of the times I am not tempted to listen to those hidden tracks, but they're so beautiful and pure that I did listen to them : "This old guitar is my bvest friend" and 'To Away - A Mother's Lullaby". The album is released on the Canadian Columbus label and distributed by Rounder Europe."
2. Bruno Michel
© June 2007 / Bruno Michel
They play music since quite some time, but it's only two years tht Mother Joanne and Daughter Haley Myrol have been performing together as the Duo Myrol. In Canada they've played major events and also toured New Zealand and Australia. Being on stage with stars such as Sammy Kershaw or the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and getting Group of the Year awards as the one from Billy Block's Western Beat Magazine is no news to them.
Now they present their new Album Your Heart Is My Heart Too. As the CD starts off with Mother And Daughter, you immediately realize that these two artists will be more successful together than if each followed her own career. Their voices are in perfect harmony. Most of the songs on the CD are traditionally arranged and you can find Bluegrass, Country and Folksongs, peacefully cooperating on this album. However, the rocking side of things is no news to the Duo and they proof it with It Don't Work That Way, as an example.
My favorites are - beside the first song - the beautiful traditional If Hearts Could Really Be Broken and the track Summer. The eleven songs written by mama Joanne (whereof Haley has co-penned Paper Thin Walls) are only one side of the album. I wondered why The Beat Goes On would rock for more than thirteen minutes until I found two more excellent songs hidden in that track.
I always was a big admirer of duets and harmonies. The Sweethearts of the Rodeo made their way to the charts back in the 80's. Mother Joanne and daughter Haley Myrol represent the best I've heard ever since. www.myrolmusic.com
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3. Jacob Visser music critic
Myrol - Your Heart Is My Heart Too
http://www.jacobvisser.nl/cdnovember2006/cd30november.htm
Genre: country / folk / rock / blues
Voor liefhebbers van: The Judds, Dixie Chicks, Gretchen Wilson, Bonnie Raitt
Het hoesje is niet erg veelbelovend, maar gelukkig is Your Heart Is My Heart Too van Myrol niet zo tuttig als het artwork doet vermoeden. Myrol is een Canadees duo bestaande uit moeder Joanne en dochter Haley. De vergelijking met The Judds ligt door de moeder-dochter samenstelling voor de hand, maar dit is een vergelijking die Myrol slechts ten dele recht doet. Net als bij The Juds kleuren de stemmen prachtig bij elkaar, maar in muzikaal opzicht is Myrol net wat avontuurlijker. Traditionele (Nashville) country vormt de basis van de muziek van Myrol, maar gelukkig gaan moeder en dochter Myrol ook uitstapjes richting pop, rock en blues niet uit de weg. Your Heart Is My Heart Too is daarom niet zo braaf als de eerste noten doen vermoeden en is bij vlagen zelfs lekker rauw. Onbevooroordeeld naar luisteren en dan pas oordelen is ons devies.
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The CD cover is not really promising but luckily the album "Your Heart Is My Heart Too" of MYROL is not as frumpy as you think when you see the artwork. MYROL is a Canadian duo of mother Joanne and daughter Haley. Because of the mother daughter combination they are many times compared with the Judds but this gives not enough justice to MYROL. Just like the Judds the voices blend beautiful together but MYROL is in a musical way more adventures. Traditional Nashville Country music is the base of this album but mother and daughter also touch music directions like pop, rock and blues. Your Heart Is My Heart Too is not as worthy as the first notes make you think and is sometimes even nicely 'raw'. We advise you to listen without prejudice and then make your own opinion.
( 23.02.2004 )
ECMA TOP-100 COUNTRY RADIO AIRPLAY CHART
Based in airplay throughout Europe.
Arly er nr 1 (!!) på ''ECMA TOP-100 COUNTRY RADIO AIRPLAY CHART''
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1. Troy Cook Jr. Watchin'
2 Cori Chandler For The Love Of It
3 Paul & Helen Mateki We’ll See Loretta At Kentucky State Fair
4 Jason Kemp Through the eys of a child
5 Leifen & Friends Man in black
6 David Cline Good Old Country Music & Western Swing
7 Troy Cook Jr. Sad City
8 Loretta Cooper I wanna hear it from you
9 Terry Lee Barker Always Tell A Cowboy
10 Angie Heart Blue Kentucky Girl
11 Loman Craig Cry myself a river
12 Joanne Myrol Dance The Rodeo Round
1 Hermann Lammers Meyer Highway Heroes
2 Cori Chandler For The Love Of It
3 Clelia Adams Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness
4 Eve Selis Ain't Got Nothin'
5 TC Taylor Mexican Radio
6 Mandy & Joe Sun The Last Hank
7 The Renovators Blues country..Renovators
8 Dan Traxler Heaven's jubilee
9 Burnt Water It keeps right on a hurtin
10 Joanne & Haley Myrol Mother, Daughter
11 Kandis W. Hedie Hauge Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under
12 Kelli Lidell Your cheatin' heart
- Various Magazines
“Dance the Rodeo Round” . . . This album is timeless, entertaining, warm and becomes a part of you…much like a favorite pair of slippers or lucky shirt…you’ll keep playing this album until it’s worn out, and still keep on playing it…”
My Kind of Country MKOC
Marli
- Marli: http://www.mkoc.com/
Discography
2 months in the Top 30 at CKUA - Canada
#2 on The New Music Weekly Country Charts USA
#2 on The New Music Weekly Top Indie Charts USA
#1 on The Roots Music Bluegrass Charts
Blue Moon Away - recorded in Nashville and Edmonton Alberta with Jeff King (Reba's picker) - guitar; Tammy Rogers (of the Steeldrivers and Emmylou Harris) - fiddle, mandolin; Scott Williamson - drums, Fred LaRose - bass; Gord Matthews - guitar; Maria Dunn - accordian; Scott Cook - vocals; Jeff Nyrstom - music producer; Barry Allen - vocal producer
Myrol (self titled)
Dance the Rodeo Round
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Contact little red hen productions canada
jomyrol@gmail.com
780 727-2644
Myrol is an Alberta based duo that blends stunning female voices with insightful and powerful original songwriting. The Americana/Roots/Alt Country duo are often backed up by a band of fantastic seasoned professionals, but are versatile and often play as a trio and a four piece. Although, one might categorize their music as Americana, Joanne and Haley are talented musicians, renowned vocalists and award winning songwriters who traverse through many genres of music weaving an elaborate musical tapestry that ultimately serves the song.
The girls have been promoting their new album 'Blue Moon Away' - #2 for them. It features songs by the duo as well as co-writes with Fred Eaglesmith, CFR champion Bull Rider and cowboy poet Dan Lowry, and Nashville's Tim Taylor. The album also features some of Alberta's best and most talented musicians as well as Grammy Nominee-Nashville based Tammy Rogers who plays for The Steel Drivers and Emmylou Harris on fiddle and mandolin and Jeff King, who currently plays guitar for Reba McEntire and George Strait, are on the new album.
Myrol took home the Fans Choice and Best Group/Duo for the Association of Country Music in Alberta. They have won a World Billboard Songwriting Competition Award for 'The Mighty Peace', as well as multiple awards from the Calgary Folk Festival Songwriting Competition for their songs over the last three years. The girls have been featured on the main stage at the Big Valley Jamboree several times, and at the Calgary Folk Festival and most recently have opened for Johnny Reid, Travis Tritt and Fred Eaglesmith,.
And they have toured Europe, Lithuania, Australia, The U.S.A. and Canada, at times playing to crowds of 30,000 and more. They are signed to Icon/Fontana/Universal and Rounder Europe at the same time with their first album titled MYROL and are currently signed with Continental Europe (formally Rounder Europe) and have even performed for Prince Edward and The Prince of Monaco at the World Games VIP party.
This classy mother/daughter duo have a unique kinship and their love and loyalty to each other is evident and shines through each song they sing on stage when they perform together. If you haven't had a chance to see Myrol perform, then there is no doubt that you'll be eagerly anticipating your next opportunity to listen to these women sing.
Absolutely Brilliantchills ... chills ! ...
Songwriters create and work over hundreds of perfect songs ...
and then one day the universal muse delivers such a great one.
I think even someone in Austin would understand the fragility of an ice bridge."
- Tom Coxworth Folk Routes CKUA Radio
For more information or booking contact jomyrol@gmail.com
little red hen productions canada
(780) 727-2644
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"Pure Canadian country! Songwriting and smooth vocals make this album a pleasure to listen to. Kudos..!" - Terri Clark
(Country Music Star) "Like all the best music, it's hard to categorize, taking in elements of folk, country and bluegrassengender a feeling of wide open spaces in their music. The songs themselves flirt between storytelling and self revealing, although it's the former that takes my fancy most" - Zeitgeist Magazine Reviews, Edinburgh UK
"on the basis of this excellent album they deserve to be up there with the best." Allen Cackett (Editor Alan Cackett previously the senior writer for country Music International. 20 yrsauthored the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music, wrote the artists biographieson the BBC Radio 2 Country Music website)
"Joanne Myrol is a singer of unusual charisma. I have performed on the same bill with literally hundreds of singers and players. Everyone who dares get up in front of an audience deserves respect for trying, but few actually reach out to the hearts and feelings of listeners. This is what I refer to as charisma. I have performed on the same bill with Joanne Myrol. This woman is a fine interpreter of a melody, and I'm sure will go on to become a well recognized voice in Canadian Country and Pop cross-over radio." - Valdy (Valdemar Horsdal)
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