NEW CHAUTAUQUA

My first Pat Metheny acquisition, I was a bit thrown by the strange sound palette of Pat's solo work--sometimes layers of treated guitars, acoustic and, I thought, electric. There were also melodies and structures that were strange to me, his tone so delicate and, I think I felt, folk-country-western, even, sometimes, quite angular and unmelodic. It took a long time for me to become familiar with this music--to eventually "like" it, much less understand it. Now I listen to it 40 years on and I don't have any issues, I like it all. It's all, of course, very familiar to me now.