Watercolors (album)

Watercolors
Studio album by Pat Metheny
Released	1977
Recorded	February 1977
Genre	Fusion, Jazz
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	[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[2]

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."^[1]

Track listing

All music composed by Pat Metheny.

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

Side II
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 - guitar, 12-string guitar, 15-string harp guitar
• Lyle Mays - piano
• Eberhard Weber - bass
• Danny Gottlieb - drums

Charts

Album - Billboard

Year	Chart	Position
1977	Jazz Albums	28

References

1. Ginell, Richard S. Allmusic Review: Watercolors accessed 09 May 2011
2. Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 138. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.