“I GREW UP A LONE WOLF IN MY BEDROOM PRACTISING MY GUITAR. ALL I EVER REALLY CRAVED WAS A COMMUNITY”
John Mayer’s discovery of the Grateful Dead happened by chance. In 2011, while listening to random suggestions on Pandora, he heard the Dead classic Althea, and with that he fell hard and fast. Taking a deep-dive into the band’s vast back catalogue, he became a committed ‘Deadhead’, leading to a remarkable chapter in his career.
The first evidence of the Dead’s influence on Mayer came with his 2012 album and 2013 follow-up . Both albums marked incrementally intensifying departures from polished pop, with Mayer doing and playing exactly what he pleased. And both
