JOHN MAYER’S Blues Chops

John Mayer has a remarkable career as a singer, songwriter, record producer and of course, guitarist. Since the release of his first album, Room For Squares in 2001, his music and collaborations have spanned a whole gamut of styles within rock, pop and blues. In an era of big label hyperproduction his huge commercial success with an improvisational, stripped down and direct style - deeply informed by a wide range of artists – is both refreshing and impressive.

There are few if any multi-Grammy award winning pop vocalists who can - in their 20s and at the height of pop superstardom - deliver a full blues concert in an exposed trio format and release it as an album (listen to 2005’s Try! with Pino Palladino on bass and Steve Jordan on drums). Collaborations and performances with the likes of BB King, Derek Trucks, Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy, have won over many sceptics, so it’s clear Mayer’s dues have been well and truly paid.

“Mayer is a generous sharer of his techniques and musical concepts on Instgram, and in Esquire magazine”

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