Travels (Pat Metheny Group album)

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AllMusic	^[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[2]

Travels is the Pat Metheny Group's first live album, released in 1983. It won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance.

The album consists of live material recorded in July, October, and November 1982, in Philadelphia, Dallas, Sacramento (California), Hartford (Connecticut), and Nacogdoches (Texas). The Group for this album consisted of Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Steve Rodby, Dan Gottlieb, and guest Nana Vasconcelos.

Travels was recorded as part of the tour for the Group's studio album, Offramp, but also featured previously unrecorded and unreleased songs.

In the liner notes for his ECM Rarum compilation album, Metheny expressed great love for the live rendition of "Are You Going With Me?" and appreciated the audience for whom it was played in Philadelphia.

The track "Song for Bilbao," dedicated to audiences in Bilbao, Spain, was often played as an encore.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays except where noted

Side I
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Are You Going With Me?"	9:19
2.	"The Fields, the Sky" (Metheny)	7:46
3.	"Goodbye" (Metheny)	8:16

Side II
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Phase Dance"	8:03
2.	"Straight on Red"	7:26
3.	"Farmer's Trust" (Metheny)	6:25

Side III
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Extradition" (Metheny)	5:45
2.	"Goin' Ahead/As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls"	16:22

Side IV
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Travels"	5:03
2.	"Song for Bilbao" (Metheny)	8:28
3.	"San Lorenzo"	13:35

Personnel

Pat Metheny – acoustic and electric guitars, guitar synthesizer
Lyle Mays – piano, synthesizers, electric organ, autoharp, Synclavier
Steve Rodby – acoustic and electric bass, bass synthesizer
Danny Gottlieb – drums
Nana Vasconcelos – percussion, voice, berimbau

Technical staff

Randy Ezratty – recording^[3]

Charts

Album – Billboard

Year	Chart	Position
1983	Jazz Albums	3
1983	Pop Albums	62
1983	Top Jazz Albums	8

Awards

Grammy Awards

Year	Category
1984	Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance

References

^ Ginell, Richard S. (2011). "Travels – Pat Metheny Group | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 139. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Verna, Paul (9 March 1996). "Effanel Rolls with the times Aboard Monster Truck". Billboard. pp. 46–47. Retrieved 5 May 2016.

[1] Ginell, Richard S. (2011). "Travels – Pat Metheny Group | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 19 July 2011.

[RSJRG-2] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 139. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[3] Verna, Paul (9 March 1996). "Effanel Rolls with the times Aboard Monster Truck". Billboard. pp. 46–47. Retrieved 5 May 2016.

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