American Garage

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

American Garage
Studio album by Pat Metheny Group
Released	1979
Recorded	June 1979
Studio	Long View Farm, North Brookfield, Massachusetts
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	35:21
Label	ECM
Producer	Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny chronology
New Chautauqua (1979) American Garage (1979) 80/81 (1980)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]

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.	Title	Length
1.	"(Cross the) Heartland"	6:55
2.	"Airstream"	6:20
3.	"The Search"	4:54

Side two:

No.	Title	Length
4.	"American Garage"	4:13
5.	"The Epic"	12:59

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

Year	Chart	Position
1980	Billboard Jazz Albums	1
1980	Billboard Pop Albums	53

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). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.