Watercolors (Pat Metheny album)

Watercolors
Studio album by Pat Metheny
Released	June 1977
Recorded	February 1977
Studio	Talent Studios, Oslo, Norway
Genre	Jazz, jazz fusion
Length	41:48
Label	ECM
Producer	Manfred Eicher
Pat Metheny chronology
Bright Size Life (1976) Watercolors (1977) Pat Metheny Group (1978)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz

Watercolors is Pat Metheny's second album, released in 1977.

The AllMusic review by Richard S. Ginell awards the album 4 stars and states: "Metheny's softly focused, asymmetrical guitar style, with echoes of apparent influences as disparate as Jim Hall, George Benson, Jerry Garcia, and various country guitarists, is quite distinctive even at this early juncture. Metheny's long-running partnership with keyboardist Lyle Mays also begins here, with Mays mostly on acoustic piano but also providing a few mild synthesizer washes."

Track listing

All music is composed by Pat Metheny

Side one:

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Watercolors"	6:28
2.	"Icefire"	6:07
3.	"Oasis"	4:02
4.	"Lakes"	4:43

Side two:

No.	Title	Length
1.	"River Quay"	4:56
2.	"Suite: I. Florida Greeting Song"	2:30
3.	"Suite: II. Legend of the Fountain"	2:28
4.	"Sea Song"	10:18

Personnel

• Pat Metheny – 6-and 12-string electric guitar, 15 string harp guitar
• Lyle Mays – piano
• Eberhard Weber – double bass
• Danny Gottlieb – drums

Charts

Album – Billboard

Year	Chart	Position
1977	Billboard Jazz Albums	28