Craig Stickland - Musician

“There's a quote from Miles Davis,” says Craig Stickland, the Canadian singer-songwriter who has played guitar for Alessia Cara, opening for Coldplay. “Sometimes it takes a long, long time to sound like yourself.”  In his recent experience, this has involved jumping through time — looking back at memories to confront them, then forward to unwind them — in storytelling that’s culminated in his EP Lost in the Rewind (MNRK Music Group, June 2, 2023). “The theme of this EP,” he says of the gorgeously plaintive release, “is really about finding myself again.”

His debut, the Juno-nominated Starlit Afternoon, chronicled Stickland’s decade-long struggle to break through into music (he had been paying the bills by bartending and modeling). The album garnered millions of streams on Spotify, with a pair of pristinely lovelorn tracks, the meditative title song and laid-back anthem “Break Every Rule,” winning him a loyal following. He’s always possessed an ability to craft transcendent truths that arrive ready to soundtrack your day, your headspace, your life. That is his higher calling. “My journey has always been an attempt to be just a full-time artist,” he says. “The process of making this EP has really been a journey of trying to get back to those roots.”

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