American Garage

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American Garage
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Studio album by
Pat Metheny Group
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
AllMusic4.5/5 stars[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide2/5 stars[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5 stars[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings3/4 stars[4]

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

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[]

Album – Billboard

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.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 993. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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