The child of an English teacher and a high school principal in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the acclaimed singer-song writer John Mayer was born in 1977. Mayer began his interest in music by playing the clarinet in middle school, but after seeing Back to the Future and being a huge fan of Marty McFly’s guitar performance at the school dance he started playing the guitar. The modern music landscape would be significantly changed if all his fans were buying tickets for clarinet concerts instead of his blues-influenced songs. That blues influence was sparked by his first listen to a Stevie Ray Vaughn cassette shortly after tasking up the guitar.
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His love for the blues was inspired by the music and the movies, but John Mayer’s songwriting was inspired by a cardiac arrhythmia attack that put him in a hospital for a week. After he returned home from the hospital he wrote his first song. Mayer went on to suffer from panic attacks that affect him to this day. After working at a gas station for over a year following graduation, John bought his first guitar, a 1996 Stevie Ray Vaughan signature Stratocaster. He played solo and in a band called Villanova Junction at blues bars in the area, never selling many tickets.
A year after graduating from high school he enrolled in the Berklee College of Music in Boston. While John Mayer did not finish his education, he did meet Clay Cook, who convinced him to move to Atlanta after freshman year. The two performed concerts as the LoFi Masters, touring the local coffee shops and clubs. The group split after as the two were moving in different musical directions. Mayer pursued a more pop-influenced sound that would, but Cook would stay on as a songwriter through John’s early career.
John Mayer was well on his way to selling albums and tickets with his first solo album, the independently-produced EP Inside Wants Out. On the strength of the song “No Such Thing”, Mayer began touring the South with David “DeLa” LaBruyere. An appearance in March 2000 at the famous South by Southwest advanced Mayer’s career, John eventually signed with Aware Records, who let Columbia Records take over his deal in 2001. Columbia re-released Inside Wants Out and repackaged Room for Squares. “No Such Thing”, “Your Body Is a Wonderland” and “Why Georgia” became radio hits over the course of 2002 and the beginning of 2003.
The album and the songs sold albums and tickets and won John Mayer a Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 2003. His next album, Heavier Things, peaked at number one on the Billboard 200, but ultimately did not sell as well as his debut album. It did give him his first number one single, “Daughter”, and won him two more Grammy Awards in 2005, one for Song of the Year and the other for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. Mayer success led to his becoming a spokesperson for various Apple products, a short-lived television show on VH1, and tours that sell out tickets world wide.
John Mayer began to change his musical direction in 2005, forming the John Mayer Trio with bassist Pino Palladino and drummer Steve Jordan and began to move in more of a blues direction. The group toured and sold tickets to shows scheduled at smaller clubs. Mayer’s latest album, Continuum, was released in 2006 and combined his prior pop sound with his renewed appreciation for the blues.
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John Mayer is touring again this summer, this time with support from Colbie Caillat and Brett Dennen. The 22-city tour is scheduled to being on July 2 in Milwaukee at the Marcus Amphitheater at Summerfest and will end a month later at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion in Houston.
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