JR Charron’s father was a musician through and through, and always wanted him to learn to play the guitar. But he never really had the knack for it when he was younger. He took a few lessons, decided it wasn’t for him, and hung up his strings. It wasn’t until his dad passed away, that he picked it back up. He found chords hard, so he learnt by ear.
When JR first set out on this journey over 13 years ago, a couple buddies of his from their hometown of Binscarth, Manitoba started a band. Were they good? Not really, no. But that didn’t stop them from playing their hearts out. They would eventually get better, and actually started booking some gigs.
They eventually all graduated high school, and went their separate ways. Two of them (One was JR) ended up moving to the big, bad city of Winnipeg, and it didn’t take long for them to get going again on the music front. They started a new band with some dorm mates, and practiced in JR’s uncles garage. It didn’t take long to start booking shows. They played bars, nightclubs, festivals and homecomings. JR was writing a ton of songs at that point, and one morning after a long night out, he had a melody stuck in his head that just wouldn’t go away. He wrote lyrics and some basic guitar, and brought it to the boys to add some meat to the bones. They ended up scrounging up enough money to record it. A couple months later they had thier debut single, ready for release. “Day Worth Livin’ For” debuted well, climbing to top 15 on the Itunes country charts. Not bad for a bunch of small town guys, who almost went broke recording the song.
They never got the chance to record an album. Why? Because all of thier spare cash went into buying beer. That, and the majority of the band moved away once they graduated University. JR kept writing songs, like they were going out of style. He started playing weddings, and taking on more acoustic gigs, and one man shows. That and working way too hard at his day job.
Flash Forward a couple of years and finally, JR had saved up enough money & courage to get into the studio again. That and the right songs. A year and a bit later, a heck of a lot of hard work, some long nights and here we are. A new chapter, and his own name.