Word: mayers
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...Mayer is just coming into his own, selling out club-sized venues in all parts of the country as he tours in the wake of his latest album, Room for Squares. Mayer’s maturity and confidence while discussing his life and career choices during a phone interview were sharply contrasted with the boyish wonder and starry gaze of the tall, lanky guy who appeared on stage. While Mayer may not know quite how to deal with his newfound fame as he transitions from being the solo, acoustic opener to the top name on the bill, his fans didn?...
John who? If you’ve never heard of John Mayer, the best cursory description would compare him to a young Dave Matthews: a handsome guitar strumming songwriter with a strong, distinctive voice. To add to the effect, Mayer’s lyrics are extremely personal, as songs like “Your Body Is A Wonderland” bare his sensitive nature and vulnerable side to anyone who will listen. At the show, girls screamed as John proclaimed, “I want to like crap, I want to be in love, I want to write bad poetry...
...While Mayer seems to be walking on his cloud of fame these days, just a few years ago his future was incredibly unsettled. During his first year at Berklee School of Music, Mayer decided that his true goals of composing and performing were far from his current academic path. At the end of the year, he packed up and headed to Atlanta with a pretty big agenda. “I didn’t want to leave [Atlanta] till I had found out really if I could have made it there,” he said...
...Mayer played only one show in Boston, although he didn’t hesitate to gush about his fondness for his college home. “Boston is one of my favorite places in the world. There was this complete gelling of where I was in my life, where I was musically and where I was geographically when I was in Boston…everything kind of swirled together and created a lot of my identity as a person and as a player.” In fact, for the middle third of the show, Mayer’s three...
...songs in, Mayer thanked his audience for not walking out after he played his only single “No Such Thing.” Mayer has gained a foothold on the radio, but his main fan base was admittedly created through the world of MP3’s. While he laments the fact that MP3’s often give a fan a one-sided and often irregular picture of how he usually plays a song, Mayer recognized that the medium is vital to the emerging artist. “It [MP3’s] made all the difference...