Cinn McRickson

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[edit] Cinn McRickson

Cinn McRickson is an elusive independent musical artist who plays the baroque pop, melodramatic popular song, and traditional folk music styles. He is best known for his hit single Empty Dreamer released early 2007. He is renowned for his mysteriousness and coyness about his personal life, allegedly because he bribed his close friends and family when he came into appeal as an artist.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Entrance into Musical Prominence

Cinn has reportedly been a trade musician since the early 2000s, playing lead and rhythm acoustic, electric, and twelvestring guitars, harmonica, and keyboard synth on his album tracks, and usually appearing just with a guitar on stage. He is credited for his songwriting, resembling the likes of the 80s pop/rock artist Steven Patrick Morrissey. In the most curt of interviews McRickson has had, he cites Morrissey as a major influence in his writing:

'I grew up on Morrissey's voice. The Smiths were the ideal point of hope for a depressive teenager, and I wanted to write much the same.'

- Sessions With a Hypochondriac

Indeed, Cinn did follow in the footsteps of the famous Manchester group in his writing. His first major hit, You're Not Going to Heaven, while very much in the folk vein music-wise, was thoroughly despondent. The track grew to notice in McRickson's hometown of Philadelphia. McRickson began playing small, unknown venues that did not amount to much. Only when he was signed by the equally unknown Widowed Majesty Records did he rise to attributal fame with his albums. Sporting lyrics regarded by many as poetic and depressing, and with orchestral backing on many songs, he struck a golden chord with the clinical and well-read public.

[edit] Future

Still arguably in the youth of his career, Cinn McRickson is preparing for the release of a fifth studio album entitled The Very Last of My Promenade Days.