About

Boss Mama takes listeners on an emotional ride from smooth country heartbreak to foot stomping Americana blues and beyond. Her songwriting ranges from honest emotion and earthly imagery to the raucousness of horses, strippers, and whiskey. Her voice is authentic, her stories are relatable, and her musicianship impeccable. Myhre is a true American singer/songwriter grounded in her passion of soulful and heartfelt music.

Written by her and her husband and recorded in the living room of their rural Northern Minnesota landscape, her first album Rivers Run Dry, is a testament to the hard work and dues she has paid performing in local honky-tonks and taverns.
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In 2011 Myhre released Ride of My Life. “Part Lucinda Williams and part Charlie Parr, Colleen Myhre’s gritty songwriting is as rawhide tough as it is genuine. On stage, her rustic personality can entertain both a honky tonk’s hard boiled regulars and tranquil coffee house crowds alike. Colleen Myhre has a low, full voice that is similar in timbre to Lucinda Williams.” – Duluth News Tribune
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Colleen’s 2019 album Boss Mama hit the airwaves all around the northland, Twin Cities, and surrounding states. With a full 2020 summer of music festivals, concerts, and street shows planned; Covid 19 threw a curveball into everyone’s life. Colleen became more dedicated in following her passion.  The “Boss Mama” solicited the skills and talents of many other musicians.  She affectionately named the collaboration, ‘The Jebberhooch’, who continue to play in diverse and openhearted venues. 

Boss Mama’s 4th album, Greetings from the Barnyard Lounge, is a bluesy, loungey experience like none you’ve experienced. Even the “Lonesome Rooster Blues” make an appearance. With her Guild shallow hollow body electric guitar and her raw voice she pulls you from inside saying “Come to Mama”, it’s an album that keeps you captured through its entirety. “Soul, rhythm, and grit,” says Colleen, “I once saw those words on a sign in Memphis when I went down there to visit Sun & Stax Records, and thought to myself that that just about sums up my sound. I sing with a lot of soul, I’m a heavy rhythm guitar player, and my songs are gritty.”

Boss Mama incessantly refines her performances as she forges new musical relationships in laboring to the creation of music for her herself, and her fans. Music is already in the tank for her 5th album. For Colleen, music heals, embodies love, and brings people together. 

Myhre possesses the ability to hypnotize listeners by creating sympathy between her voice and guitar that resonates a true American and local spirit.  She not only hopes that you appreciate her music, but that you strive to learn about her life, her passion and love of music.