| 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 | |||
| Pat Metheny chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  [3] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [4] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [2] |
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]
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]
All 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 |
| Year | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Billboard Jazz Albums | 1 |
| 1980 | Billboard Pop Albums | 53 |
