Album Notes

Album Description:

El McMeen "plays favorites" through the medium of his soulful steel-string guitar, with impeccable arrangements of popular songs that will make you want to sing along--from Celtic, to Folk, to Pop, to Sacred music.

Editorial Reviews:

Guitar Player May 1996
McMeen's solo steel-string language opts for melody, understatement, and gorgeous, gorgeous tone...

J. Jensen Fingerstyle Guitar 1997
...pretty melodies and pristine tone

I. Emke, Dirty Linen 1997
...lush arrangements, with deftly-executed fingerpicking

Music:

El's music is characterized by lyrical beauty and a sensitivity to melodic phrases enhanced with tasteful arpeggios, cross-picking, and walking bass lines, and his uptempo pieces evidence energy and pulse. His artistry has been praised by numerous publications, including Acoustic Guitar Magazine, Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine and Guitar Player Magazine. El's music has been hailed by critics as "stirring ... unbridled acoustic beauty" and "drop-dead gorgeous" (Guitar Player Magazine) and as a "treasure" (Dirty Linen Magazine).