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Article: For Pat Metheny, the road goes on forever
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- Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- September 10, 2004
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For the past 30 years, guitarist Pat Metheny has proven himself to
be one of the true road-warrior musicians of modern times.
Metheny is one of only a handful of musicians who can fill large
concert halls any day of the year. And from 1974 to1993, his bands
averaged 230 shows a year. The guitarist claims that a 50-show
excursion barely qualifies as a tour.
The Missouri-born Metheny has a wholesome Midwestern image that
makes him one of America's top cultural ambassadors when he plays in
foreign venues.
Metheny has recorded 40 albums under his own name, and has played
on almost 50 other artists' studio dates. That's not an astonishing
number of recordings, but the guitarist is still in his ...