Through The Fire - Cadence Grace

May 23, 2023

Meghan Patrick

Since making her debut with 2016’s multi-award-winning Grace & Grit, Meghan Patrick has embodied the kind of unbridled truth-telling that leaves listeners feeling undeniably seen and understood. A back-to-back CCMA Female Artist of the Year whose accolades also include 18 CMAOntario Awards, the Nashville-based artist doubled down on that soul-baring specificity in the making of her latest project, The Greatest Show On Dirt. Over the course of the EP’s six intimately detailed tracks, the rural-Ontario-born singer/songwriter sets her storytelling to a high-energy but expansive sound that stretches beyond the boundaries of country—a move befitting of a musician whose background includes co-founding an all-girl band at age 13, studying opera and jazz, fronting a 10-piece funk act that once opened for Aretha Franklin, and touring extensively as part of a bluegrass group. Anchored in the powerful vocal work she’s brought to the stage as support for legends like Dwight Yoakam and top artists including Keith Urban, Old Dominion, Kip Moore, Brothers Osborne and more, the result is a body of work that captures the nuances of her emotional experience with equal parts boldness, humor, and wildly colorful originality. Naming John Prine, Neil Young, and Waylon Jennings among her longtime inspirations, Patrick first started honing her distinct narrative voice as a kid in the small town of Bowmanville, then took up guitar after graduating from high school. During her time at McGill University, she built up her chops by busking in the Montreal subways, eventually dropping out of school to tour with her bluegrass band. Within a year of striking out as a solo artist, Patrick landed a deal with a major label and soon teamed up with the likes of Vince Gill to record the widely acclaimed Grace & Grit. But while the coming years brought a number of triumphs—including scoring her first #1 single with “Walls Come Down” (from her 2018 sophomore LP) and winning a Juno Award for her 2019 EP Wild As Me—Patrick later endured a period of intense upheaval compounded by the chaos of the pandemic. Now at work on her first full-length since 2021’s Heart on My Glass, Patrick has found that strengthening her creative vision has reaffirmed her sense of purpose as an artist. Find out more about Meghan Patrick: https://meghanpatrickmusic.com/ Follow Meghan on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MegPatrickMusic/ Follow Meghan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/megpatrickmusic/ Follow Meghan on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@megpatrickmusic Follow Meghan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MegPatrickMusic Support this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/donamero Find out more about the Through the Fire Podcast: https://donamero.ca/through-the-fire-podcast/ https://www.instagram.com/throughthefirepod/ https://www.tiktok.com/@throughthefirepod https://www.instagram.com/donamero/ https://www.tiktok.com/@thedonamero https://twitter.com/donaldamero Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

32 min