DownBeat Magazine Readers Poll Winner — Pat Metheny Gets Lost In Translation

  • Pat Metheny wins Guitarist of the Year in the 2022 DownBeat Readers Poll… AGAIN 🙂 From the DownBeat article: “I don’t necessarily think of myself as a guitar player,” he said in a September Zoom call from his hotel room in Baltimore, where he was playing to overflow crowds at the Keystone Korner I was […]

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The Pat Metheny Interview with Rick Beato on YouTube

  • Rick Beato has a sizeable audience for his YouTube channel (3.25MM subscribers at the time of this post). This interview was originally published to Rick Beato’s YouTube channel in August 2021 — I am WAY late in promoting it here on PatMethenyMusic.com (already over 2MM views), but I believe it is an evergreen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEgalcH_-b4

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DOWNBEAT: Pat Metheny’s Side-Eye: A Raised Eyebrow

  • Pat Metheny’s Side-Eye: A Raised Eyebrow (downbeat.com) https://downbeat.com/news/detail/pat-methenys-side-eye-a-raised-eyebrow

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The Tao of Pat Metheny — Cory Wong’s Podcast Wong Notes — Wonderful :-)

  • I only learned of Cory Wong recently — in a recent cameo appearance with Dirty Loops. I learned yesterday that Cory hosts a Podcast and I immediately subscribed — and NOT just because the his first guest of this new season was the Maestro himself 🙂 Lifelong Metheny fanatics like us have know about Pat’s […]

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NEW ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENT — “From This Place” :-)

  • This announcement was completely unexpected and an unbelievably joyous surprise for me: It pushed me to for the PatMetheny@abovo.co GROUP: https://patmetheny.abovo.co/ 🙂 Even better, the first track “America Undefined” was pre-released on all the streaming services: https://smarturl.it/FromThisPlace Having listened to the track countless times in the past 24-hours, I couldn’t be more giddy… With the […]

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Pat Metheny Article in The Economist — Very Cool

  • The Economist isn’t an ordinary publication or media company. It targets 1.5 Million highly-educated readers and claims an audience containing many influential executives and policy-makers. Named “The Best Magazine” by The Chicago Tribune in 2005, The Economist is considered by many to be the most sophisticated of all news magazines. However, it rarely takes on topics […]

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Welcome to the Official Re-launch of PatMethenyMusic.com

  • My name is Sean Fenlon, and I am a huge admirer of Pat Metheny and his art. I originally launched this PatMethenyMusic.com fan site back in 2003, right after the release of The Way Up. I have used the release of Kin (<—>) as motivation for a re-launch of the site with a fresh new design and re-imagined […]

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