We were lucky to catch up with Megan Brickwood recently and have shared our conversation below.

Megan, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

The best thing about being a musician is that in the creating, performing, and sharing of your music you are given many opportunities to collaborate with other talented and interesting people. For my recently released EP, Fifth Mile, I traveled to Woodinville, Washington, to record at Bear Creek Studio. I spent a week working intensively with a group of musicians who I’d just met to produce that collection of songs. It was such a magical experience getting to know all of them and bringing the songs to life. In promoting that same EP the following year, I connected with a photographer and a cinematographer, with whom I formed not just a great working relationship but friendships as well. It’s a great feeling not just to see a creative project through but to share that experience with others who share your vision and passion for the work.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

Born and raised in rural Northern California, Megan Brickwood’s artistic journey has taken her across the West Coast, from Shasta County to Los Angeles to the Seattle area in search of new sounds and musical ventures. Her debut EP, Where the Wind Lays Heavy, was recorded at Death Star Studios in Koreatown, Los Angeles, and released in 2020. In 2021, she connected with producer Ryan Hadlock and traveled to Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville, Washington, to record the four tracks that would become her second EP, Fifth Mile, working with an incredible team of local musicians to bring the songs to life with a full spectrum of acoustic and electric sounds. In autumn of 2022, she returned to Bear Creek with the same team to record five additional songs, making her first full album.
Megan’s musical style is distinguished by a nuanced blend of influences from American roots and folk music, blues, and rock. Influenced by lyricists like Joni Mitchell and Aimee Mann, her songs examine the depths of the human condition, searching for truth and beauty while paying homage to her rural northern roots and tales of the road less traveled.

Are there any books, videos, essays or other resources that have significantly impacted your management and entrepreneurial thinking and philosophy?

I was deeply impacted by a collection of essays by Mary Oliver, published as a book titled Upstream. In these essays she examines creativity and the creative life, the elements that drive artists and how artists fit into the world…or rather, how they don’t. It was the first thing I ever read that helped me to make sense of the way I exist in the world, the ways in which I love it and in which I struggle with it. That understanding has helped me to move forward more confidently as an artist, with more compassion for myself and others.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

My goal is to always create work that I am excited about and proud of, whether it is commercially successful or not.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://meganbrickwood.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganbrickwood/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088959639679
• Youtube: https://youtu.be/4ZTmFgaVkBM?si=ztLUnrsOQTXtc8UX

Image Credits
Taylor McCutchan, Kegan McGurk