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American Garage
Studio album by the Pat Metheny Group
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
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.

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."

Track listing

All tracks are written by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays

Personnel

Pat Metheny Group

• 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

• Pat Metheny – producer
• Manfred Eicher – executive producer
• Kent Nebergall – recording engineer, mixing engineer
• Jesse Henderson – assistant engineer
• Bill Kipper – mastering at Masterdisk, NYC, USA
• Basil Pao – design
• Joel Meyerowitz – cover photography
• Rob Van Petten – photography

Charts

See also

• 1979 in jazz

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). The 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.
5. "American Garage". ECM.
6. Cooke, Mervyn (2017). Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975–1984. Oxford University Press. pp. 137–140.

• 1979 albums
• Pat Metheny albums
• ECM Records albums
• Albums produced by Manfred Eicher
• Albums recorded at Long View Farm