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Product Details

  • Audio CD (February 29, 2000)
  • Original Release Date: April 1979
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Ecm Records
  • ASIN: B0000261O4
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #62,568 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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For this 1979 recording, Pat Metheny tried something very different: a solo CD with extensive overdubs that put the emphasis on his acoustic guitar playing. It's in an idiom all its own, mixing the open harmonies of country music with some flamenco phrases, resulting in the melodic inventiveness of jazz with the acoustic virtuosity of John Fahey. At times, the music has the feel of a universal campfire, with phrases that can bend from Appalachian folk picking to the music of India, with gently amplified leads over acoustic rhythm and subdued electric bass. The overall effect of this consort of one may be merely soothing, but like all of Metheny's work, the details are there to keep the interest level high. --Stuart Broomer

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars For your great listening pleasure!!!!, August 14, 2002
By B. Bernardini "jaco111" (San Antonio, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This is on of Metheny's finest solo venture.Every song is wonderful.A quiet CD,good for that "Sunday morning,with
coffee and the newspaper" His focus for each of his writtings
is "on the mark". This is a must for you collection!!!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Get this album! , November 28, 2004
By Arnold Rimmer (Salt Lake City, UT USA) - See all my reviews
Pat Metheny is one of the greatest musicians of our generation. In the '70s (and up to the present day) he busied himself re-inventing and expanding the genre of jazz in ways that were progressive and ingenious, but at the same time totally accessible to people other than musical scholars. In the middle of making some of the greatest albums ever produced with all kinds of bands, large and small, he decided to make a solo album. But this was a real solo album. He went into a studio with a collection of guitars and basses and, with the help of a multi-track recorder, composed, arranged, performed and produced every note of this album himself. Vanity project? Maybe. But not a wasted one. Not only does he show a flawless technical mastery of his instruments, but every piece is so painstakingly constructed and emotively performed that you could love it without ever noticing the technical fireworks. It predated the Windham Hill revolution, but it's still superior in every important way to anything by Michael Hedges or Will Ackerman (and this is coming from a big fan of both of those artists). Almost always forgotten when listing Pat Metheny's greatest works, it never falls from the top of my list.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great American Road Music, August 31, 2006
By Todd and In Charge (Miami, FL) - See all my reviews
  
Metheny's an innovator and has been all over the map over his long career in terms of styles, moods, textures, and sounds.

Here we have an early effort in which he takes his guitar and overdubs an introspective, wide-open-spaces musical journey across America, weaving in jazz, folk, country, rock, mountain music, and everything in between. If you love his work on Joni Mitchell's Amelia (performed live on Shadows and Light), you'll love the sound of this record.

The mood is mellow but not dull, quiet but not silent, and the results are spectacular. This is the cd to take with you on a trip across the western frontier, or a short hop to Burger King. Works either way.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Endlessly melodic music
I've heard almost all of Metheny's recordings, and this is one I've always kept coming back to, along with Bright Size Life and Missouri Sky. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Mellow Metheny
A very mellow, enjoyable Metheny offering. Something I like to listen to on a Saturday morning, with my coffee and paper or play while I'm driving. Read more
Published on January 11, 2007 by R. Legare

5.0 out of 5 stars The Great Explorer
Pat Metheny begins exploring new music routes from almost his very first release. New Chautauqua is the perfect example. Read more
Published on January 9, 2007 by W. Noshie

4.0 out of 5 stars I wish I could play guitar like that
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Published on November 10, 2006 by Roger Laurel

4.0 out of 5 stars I think I'll make a record today...
I get the impression that Pat just had a creative itch that needed scratching in between PMG projects when he sat down and put this little session together. Read more
Published on June 13, 2006 by YouthInAsia

5.0 out of 5 stars Magical, and way ahead of its time
Recently, I was going through my old cassettes in yet another attempt to get rid of stuff that's been lying around for decades unplayed, and found my old copy of this album. Read more
Published on August 21, 2005 by Ralph Ferdingstadt

5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable performances!

Pat Metheny has made one his most fortunate records with this singular, innovative and fresh air work. Read more
Published on March 17, 2005 by Hiram Gomez Pardo

3.0 out of 5 stars Nothing special.
I got this at a garage sale and Im glad I did so, I would not have payed full price for it. Since this was a solo work I expected Pat to go out there a little bit, but the most of... Read more
Published on June 18, 2003 by David

5.0 out of 5 stars The Metheny guitar,a standard of excellence
This is Pat's earliest but enduringly best cd's, especially if you like a great guitar. It's one i come back to all the time,
very listenable, nothing new age here, just good... Read more
Published on May 21, 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars What an incredible piece of music !
Having listened to a fairly eclectic mix of music over the last 40 years, as with most people, there seems to be certain favorite artists whose cd/album compositions inevitably... Read more
Published on April 29, 2002 by W. JOHNSTON

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