His specialty is fingerstyle arrangements of sung or strongly melodic pieces, ranging from the Irish genre, to hymns, gospel tunes and pop music.
McMeen practiced law as his primary vocation in New York City for many years, and was a partner in the New York City law firm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, LLP for 21 years, until his retirement in 2000.
Through freshman year in college, he played clarinet as a solo instrument, as well as in band and orchestra settings.
He graduated from Harvard College in 1969, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1972, in each case with Honors.
Upon reapplying himself in the early 1980s to the instrument, he encountered what he saw as an incredible breadth of music that one could try to render on guitar.
McMeen’s playing is characterized by melodic emphasis, economy and great beauty of sound.