American Garage

American Garage is the second album by the Pat Metheny Group, released in 1979 on ECM Records.

American Garage
Studio album by
Released1979
RecordedJune 1979
StudioLong View Farm, North Brookfield, Massachusetts
GenreJazz fusion
Length35:21
LabelECM
ProducerPat Metheny
Pat Metheny chronology
New Chautauqua
(1979)
American Garage
(1979)
80/81
(1980)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]

The album represented the most collaborative writing session between Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays up to that point in the band's history. According to Metheny, this yielded mixed results. He has said that the album's second track, "Airstream," is a favorite from this period. But both he and Mays have expressed less praise for the fifth and final track, "The Epic", which Metheny has claimed, "is all over the map."

Track listing

All tracks are written by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays.

Side one:
No.TitleLength
1."(Cross the) Heartland"6:55
2."Airstream"6:20
3."The Search"4:54
Side two:
No.TitleLength
4."American Garage"4:13
5."The Epic"12:59

Personnel

Charts

AlbumBillboard

Year Chart Position
1980 Billboard Jazz Albums 1
1980 Billboard Pop Albums 53

See also

References

  1. Ginell, Richard S. (2011). "American Garage - Pat Metheny Group | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
  2. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 139. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  3. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
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