The Road to You

The Road to You
Live album by Pat Metheny Group
Released	1993 (1993)
Venue	Italy, France
Genre	Jazz, jazz fusion
Length	70:12
Label	Geffen
Producer	Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny chronology
Secret Story (1992) The Road to You (1993) Zero Tolerance for Silence (1994)

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The Road to You is the second live album by the Pat Metheny Group that won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Performance.

The songs were recorded during concerts in Naples, Bari, Pescara, and Jesi, Italy; and Paris, Marseille, and Besançon, France. The last song is a solo guitar studio recording from the video More Travels.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Pat Metheny except where noted

Side one:

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Have You Heard"		6:48
2.	"First Circle"	Metheny, Mays	9:03
3.	"The Road to You"		5:45
4.	"Half Life of Absolution"	Metheny, Mays	15:19
5.	"Last Train Home"		5:10
6.	"Better Days Ahead"		5:12
7.	"Naked Moon"		5:30
8.	"Beat 70"	Metheny, Mays	5:06
9.	"Letter from Home"		2:33
10.	"Third Wind"	Metheny, Mays	9:50
11.	"Solo from More Travels"		3:40

Personnel

• Pat Metheny – acoustic and electric guitar, guitar synthesizer
• Lyle Mays – piano, keyboards
• Steve Rodby – acoustic and electric bass
• Paul Wertico – drums
• Armando Marçal – percussion, timbales, congas, voice
• Pedro Aznar – voice, acoustic guitar, percussion, saxophone, steel drums, vibraphone, marimba, melodica

Awards

Grammy Awards

Year	Category
1994	Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album

Video

All tracks are written by Pat Metheny except where noted

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Opening"	3:41
2.	"Have You Heard" (Metheny/Mays)	6:16
3.	"Last Train Home"	5:17
4.	"First Circle" (Metheny/Mays)	8:42
5.	"Are You Going with Me?"	8:59
6.	"Letter from Home"	2:23
7.	"Half Life of Absolution"	11:21
8.	"The Road to You" (Metheny/Mays)	5:44
9.	"Third Wind"	9:10
10.	"Letter from Home (Reprise)" (Metheny/Mays)	2:23

Personnel

• Pat Metheny – guitars, guitar synthesizer, electric sitar
• Lyle Mays – piano, synthesizers
• Steve Rodby – double bass, electric bass
• Paul Wertico – drums
• Armando Marçal – percussion
• Pedro Aznar – vocals, guitar, percussion, vibraphone, marimba, glockenspiel, tenor saxophone

Credits

• Video directed by Jan Egleson
• Video produced by Marcus Viscidi
• Executive producer – Ted Kurland, Daihei Shiohama and David Sholemson
• Associate producer – Pat Metheny and Steve Rodby
• Music produced by Pat Metheny
• Music co-produced by Steve Rodby
• Design – Howard Cummings
• Director of Photography – Paul Goldsmith
• Edited by William A. Anderson
• Associate producer – David Oakes
• Recorded and mixed by Rob Eaton