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American Garage

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Released
  
1979

Length
  
35:21

American Garage (1979)
  
80/81 (1980)

Release date
  
1979

Label
  
ECM Records

Recorded
  
June 1979

American Garage (1979)
  
Offramp (1982)

Artist
  
Pat Metheny Group

Producer
  
Pat Metheny

Genres
  
Jazz, Jazz fusion

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Studio
  
Long View Farm, North Brookfield, Massachusetts

Similar
  
Pat Metheny Group albums, Jazz albums

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

Contents

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."

American Garage marked Mays's first use of the Oberheim synthesizer, which became an integral part of the Group's sound.

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Track listing

All music composed by Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays.

Personnel

  • Pat Metheny – 6- and 12-string electric and acoustic guitars
  • Lyle Mays – piano, Oberheim synthesizer, autoharp, electric organ
  • Mark Egan – electric bass
  • Dan Gottlieb – drums
  • Charts

    Album - Billboard

    Songs

    1(Cross The) Heartland6:53
    2Airstream6:19
    3The Search4:50

    References

    American Garage Wikipedia