This was also when the media could only focus on his relationships. A big part of that is because it was played so much on the radio. I actually didn’t like the single “Say” when it was released. I’m pretty sure John Mayer always took up half the spots, with Linkin Park taking up most of the others, giving a very wide divide between styles.įrom this point forward, I gravitated more toward that rock style, and John Mayer gravitated back toward his pop style. This album and Continuum nailed that, and were on heavy rotation in my car’s six CD changer. Blues is my favorite style - probably due to Hendrix - and this is John Mayer’s best style. All of his live stuff is somehow better than the studio work, whether on YouTube or albums (Any Given Thursday in 2003 is another great one).įor me, 2005-06 was peak John Mayer. Everyone should listen to this album once.Īfter that, he formed the John Mayer Trio with Steve Jordan and Pino Palladino, releasing a blues album called Try! He also released a live album in 2008, which is fantastic. Doing a Hendrix cover secured Mayer’s place as one of my favorite artists. The first CD I ever bought was Jimi Hendrix, which shaped my musical path. This album was the equivalent of a hard push into adulthood - like getting out of college and being told your student loans are due in six months and they’re HOW FUCKING MUCH A MONTH?! This album has my favorite song, “Vultures”, as well as an amazing cover of “Bold as Love”. Possibly my favorite album of all time, and definitely my most influential album, is Continuum, which came out around the time I was graduating college. In this album, John is still soft faced, but more confident in his path, and slowly finding that what he really wants is a home life, which even to this article’s date has escaped him in terms of a romantic relationship. The song “Something’s Missing” off that album is still to this day one of my favorite songs of all time. The next album, Heavier Things, came out my sophomore year of college, around the time I became a manager at a local movie theater. It’s an album about a quiet, immensely niche-talented, soft faced high schooler who can’t talk to girls and spends too much time alone in his own world in the great indoors. Room For Squares, his debut album, came out my senior year of high school. In a weird way, he’s marked the path of my entire life. Typically, they will pick a player in the big leagues who has a similar style, similar experiences, similar pitches, or anything similar to themselves, so that they can learn from watching that big league example.Īs a writer, I take that same approach with writers and artists. In baseball, players typically watch video and study the approach/career of other players. It’s on YouTube and was a really good look at his career if you’d like a deeper appreciation of his music and journey. I watched a documentary about John Mayer’s career this week.
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