American Garage
1979 studio album by Pat Metheny Group / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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American Garage is the second studio album by the Pat Metheny Group, released in 1979 on ECM Records.
1979 studio album by Pat Metheny Group
| American Garage | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | November 1979[1] | |||
| Recorded | June 1979 | |||
| Studio | Long View Farm, North Brookfield, Massachusetts | |||
| Genre | Jazz fusion | |||
| Length | 35:21 | |||
| Label | ECM | |||
| Producer | Pat Metheny | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |  [3] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [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."