American Garage

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American Garage
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Studio album by
the Pat Metheny Group
ReleasedNovember 1979
RecordedJune 1979
Studio Long View Farm
North Brookfield, MA
Genre Jazz fusion
Length35:21
Label ECM
ECM 1155 ST
Producer Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny chronology
New Chautauqua
(1979)		American Garage
(1979)		 80/81
(1980)
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American Garage is the second studio album by the Pat Metheny Group, recorded in June 1979 and released on ECM in November 1979. The quartet features rhythm section Lyle Mays, Mark Egan and Dan Gottlieb. [5]

Contents

Background

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." [6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays

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

Personnel

Charts

YearChartPosition
1980Billboard Jazz Albums1
1980Billboard Pop Albums53

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References

  1. ↑ Ginell, Richard S. (2011). "American Garage - Pat Metheny Group | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
  2. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
  3. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 993. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 139. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  5. ↑ "American Garage". ECM .
  6. ↑ Cooke, Mervyn (2017). Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975–1984. Oxford University Press. pp. 137–140.
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