{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = American Garage | type = studio | artist = the Pat Metheny Group | cover = Pmg - american garage.jpg | border = yes | alt = | released = November 1979 | recorded = June 1979 | venue = | studio = Long View Farm,<br>North Brookfield, MA | genre = Jazz fusion | length = 35:21 | label = ECM | producer = Pat Metheny | chronology = Pat Metheny | prev_title = New Chautauqua | prev_year = 1979 | next_title = 80/81 | next_year = 1980 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r143827 |title=American Garage - Pat Metheny Group | AllMusic |first=Richard S. |last=Ginell |work=allmusic.com |year=2011 |accessdate=19 July 2011}}</ref> | rev4 = ''The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide'' | rev4Score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | author-link = | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | pages = 139 }}</ref> | rev2 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' | rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734}}</ref> |rev3 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev3score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=993}}</ref> }} '''''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.<ref>{{cite web |title=American Garage |url=https://www.ecmrecords.com/shop/143038752104/american-garage-pat-metheny-group |website=ECM}}</ref>
== Background == 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."<ref>{{cite book |last=Cooke |first=Mervyn |title=Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975–1984 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2017 |pages=137–140 }}</ref>
== Track listing == {{Track listing | all_writing = Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays | headline = Side I | title1 = (Cross the) Heartland | length1 = 6:55 | title2 = Airstream | length2 = 6:20 | title3 = The Search | length3 = 4:54 }} {{Track listing | headline = Side II | title4 = American Garage | length4 = 4:13 | title5 = The Epic | length5 = 12:59 }}
==Personnel==
=== Pat Metheny Group === * Pat Metheny – 6-and 12-string electric and acoustic guitars * Lyle Mays – piano, Oberheim synthesizer, autoharp, electric organ * Mark Egan – bass * Dan Gottlieb – drums
=== Technical personnel === * Pat Metheny – producer * Manfred Eicher – executive producer * Kent Nebergall – recording engineer, mixing engineer * Jesse Henderson – assistant engineer * Bill Kipper – mastering at Masterdisk, NYC, USA * Basil Pao – design * Joel Meyerowitz – cover photography * Rob Van Petten – photography
==Charts== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- !scope="col"| Chart (1980) !scope="col"| Peak<br />position |- {{album chart|Canada|88|chartid=9481b|access-date=April 10, 2025}} |- {{album chart|Billboard200|53|artist=Pat Metheny|access-date=April 10, 2025}} |}
==See also== *1979 in jazz
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:1979 albums Category:Pat Metheny albums Category:ECM Records albums Category:Albums produced by Manfred Eicher Category:Albums recorded at Long View Farm