PAT METHENY GROUP - AMERICAN GARAGE (IMPORT LP)

Pat Metheny Group American Garage on Import 180g LP

A young group openly acknowledging the influence of popular music. This cheerful, breezy jazz-rock album from the Pat Metheny Group was originally recorded in 1979 and is highlighted by the band's signature tune “(Cross The) Heartland." Great music and full-dimensional sound!
 
"With American Garage, the Pat Metheny Group solidified its signature sound. This album, the group’s second, took the #1 spot on the 1980 Billboard Jazz chart and spawned a legion of followers. Its virtuosic blend of jazz and roots rock evokes the heartland like no other and has withstood its own commercial success relatively unscathed. Together, this quartet of talented musicians creates the ultimate musical road trip.

Metheny’s compositional talents are given ample breathing room as he crafts rustic yet elegant evocations of a lost America. There’s a small-town feel to the proceedings, a backwater purity that beckons throughout. It is the innocence of a bygone era, which remains here and there in small pockets. And it is through these musical lineages that we string those pockets together with shimmering synchronicity. Like a conceptual jukebox, each leg of the journey that is American Garage spindles a new record to our attention. The precision of Metheny and his group here is extraordinarily clean, shaken dry and stripped of all excess." - Tyran Grillo

Musicians:
- Pat Metheny: guitars
- Lyle Mays: piano, oberheim, autoharp, organ
- Mark Egan: bass
- Dan Gottlieb: drums

Recording Information:
- Recorded June 1979 at Longview Farm, North Brookfield, Massachusetts
- Engineer: Kent Nebergall
- Produced by Pat Metheny

Pat Metheny Group American Garage Track Listing:

1.  (Cross The) Heartland
2.  Airstream
3.  The Search
4.  American Garage
5.  The Epic