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]
| American Garage | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | November 1979 | |||
| Recorded | June 1979 | |||
| Studio | Long View Farm, North Brookfield, MA | |||
| Genre | Jazz fusion | |||
| Length | 35:21 | |||
| Label | ECM ECM 1155 ST | |||
| Producer | Pat Metheny | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  [3] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [4] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [2] |
Background
editThe 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
editAll tracks are written by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "(Cross the) Heartland" | 6:55 |
| 2. | "Airstream" | 6:20 |
| 3. | "The Search" | 4:54 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 4. | "American Garage" | 4:13 |
| 5. | "The Epic" | 12:59 |
Personnel
editPat Metheny Group
edit- Pat Metheny – 6-and 12-string electric and acoustic guitars
- Lyle Mays – piano, Oberheim synthesizer, autoharp, electric organ
- Mark Egan – bass
- Dan Gottlieb – drums
Technical personnel
edit- Pat Metheny – producer
- Manfred Eicher – executive producer
- Kent Nebergall – recording engineer, mixing engineer
- Jesse Henderson – assistant engineer
- Bill Kipper – mastering engineer
- mastered at Masterdisk, NYC, USA
- Basil Pao – design
- Joel Meyerowitz – cover photography
- Rob Van Petten – photography
Charts
edit| Year | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Billboard Jazz Albums | 1 |
| 1980 | Billboard Pop Albums | 53 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Ginell, Richard S. (2011). "American Garage - Pat Metheny Group | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
- ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 139. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 993. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ "American Garage". ECM.
- ^ Cooke, Mervyn (2017). Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975–1984. Oxford University Press. pp. 137–140.