Album Description:

This album of El McMeen's solo steel-string guitar playing features classic tunes in the Celtic, traditional and sacred genres. It was named a Finalist as acoustic instrumental album of the year in 1998 by Crossroads Music.

Editorial Reviews:

Dirty Linen June/July 1998
a treasure...one of the finest solo guitar recordings I've had the pleasure of reviewing.

Acoustic Guitar 1998
McMeen's tone is gorgeous, his playing is nuanced, and his chamber-Celtic arrangements honor the melodies.

Metronome Mag. Nov.1998
... touching and sweet, ethereal and magical all at the simplest bending of a note or picking of a chord.

Bio:

El McMeen began playing the acoustic guitar while attending Harvard in the mid-1960's. At the time he took up guitar, he was an accomplished clarinet player and singer, and had studied piano. At first, McMeen didn't approach the guitar primarily as a solo instrument, but used it as accompaniment for his singing. Upon reapplying himself in the early 1980's to the instr