American Garage

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.

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."

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 engineer
 * mastered at Masterdisk, NYC, USA
 * Basil Pao – design
 * Joel Meyerowitz – cover photography
 * Rob Van Petten – photography