| John Mayer |
The Search For Everything |
John Mayer — The Search For Everything (April 14th, 2017) 
••› “My heart’s racing. These songs represent literally hundreds of hours of living inside of these little worlds. And more to come.” — John Mayer
••› A talented guitarist with a plaintive vocal style, Mayer updated the confessional singer~songwriter style for the new millennium.
••› Mayer has won seven awards from nineteen nominations.
Born: John Clayton Mayer, October 16, 1977, Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.
Residence: Montana, U.S.
Education: Fairfield Warde High School
Occupation: Singer~songwriter, record producer
Home town: Fairfield, Connecticut, U.S.
Notable instruments: Fender Stratocaster, Martin Guitar
Genre: Pop, Rock, Soul, Funk
Album release: April 14th, 2017
Record Label: Columbia Records
Duration: 43:54
Tracks:
01. Still Feel Like Your Man 3:54
02. Emoji of a Wave 3:59
03. Helpless 4:09
04. Love On the Weekend 3:32
05. In the Blood 4:04
06. Changing 3:33
07. Theme From ‘The Search For Everything’ 1:54
08. Moving On and Getting Over 4:25
09. Never On The Day You Leave 3:43
10. Rosie 4:02
11. Roll It On Home 3:24
12. You’re Gonna Live Forever in Me 3:10
℗ 2017 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment
Credits:
•• Alex Alvarez Guitar Technician
•• Greg Calbi Mastering
•• Sheryl Crow Vocals
•• Jeremy Dean Art Direction, Design
•• Mike Elizondo Bass
•• James Fauntleroy Keyboards
•• Travis Ference Assistant Engineer
•• Chuck Findley Trumpet
•• Jeff Fitzpatrick Assistant Engineer
•• Robin Florent Mixing Assistant
•• Chad Franscoviak Engineer, Producer
•• Chris Galland Mixing Engineer
•• Steve Genewick Assistant Engineer
•• Larry Goldings Keyboards, Pump Organ
•• Jake Gorski Assistant Engineer
•• Chris Gott Production Manager
•• Gary Grant Trumpet
•• Chandler Harrod Assistant Engineer
•• Ken Helie Production Coordination
•• Jerry Hey Horn Arrangements, Horn Conductor
•• Daniel Higgins Saxophone
•• Jeff Jackson Mixing Assistant
•• Al Jardine Vocals
•• Matt Jardine Vocals
•• Steve Jordan Drums, Executive Producer, Percussion
•• Kurt Kasinoff Guitar Technician
•• Jim Keltner Drums
•• Greg Leisz Dobro, Lap Steel Guitar, Pedal Steel
•• Manny Marroquin Mixing
•• Andy Martin Trombone
•• René Martínez Guitar Technician
•• John Mayer Composer, Producer
•• Soey Milk Cover Art, Illustrations
•• Jeremy Miller Assistant Engineer
•• Frank Ockenfels III Photography
•• Charlie Paakkari Assistant Engineer
•• Pino Palladino Bass
•• Tiffany Palmer Vocals
•• Martin Pradler Digital Editing, Engineer
•• Nick Rives Assistant Engineer
•• Davide Rossi String Arrangements, String Engineer, Strings
•• Tyler Shields Assistant Engineer
•• Aaron Sterling Drums, Percussion
Description:
••› As previously revealed, the four songs released off The Search for Everything are “Moving On and Getting Over,” “Changing,” “Love on the Weekend,” and “You’re Gonna Live Forever in Me.” (“Love on the Weekend” was previously released as a single last year.)
••› Mayer’s last studio album was 2013’s Paradise Valley, but he has kept busy by both working on the new music and touring as the lead guitarist with Dead & Company (which features Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann). Mayer helped the group celebrate 50 years of the Grateful Dead in 2015 and 2016.
••› Last year, when announcing the release of “Love on the Weekend,” Mayer said of what became The Search for Everything, “There are more songs than can fit on your standard sized album. But I do think next year is the year of more music coming than I’ve ever put out in one year.”
iTunes Review
••› On the surface, John Mayer already has everything: guitar~god status, an honorary membership with the Grateful Dead, a trove of GRAMMY®s and Rolexes. But everything feels like nothing when you don’t have someone to share it with, especially when you’re nearing 40 and humbled by heartbreak. This album is about his quest for forgiveness, companionship, family, and meaning — the real everything. In classic Mayer fashion, it’s deeply sentimental and a little existential. On “In the Blood,” he ponders his fate with his heart on his sleeve: “How much of my mother has my mother left in me? How much of my love will be insane to some degree? And what about this feeling that I’m never good enough? Will it wash out in the water or is it always in the blood?”
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine; Score: ****½
••› John Mayer first teased his seventh album, The Search for Everything, through a pair of EPs that contained eight of the record’s 12 songs. It was a sly way for the singer/songwriter to ease back into his soulful side, a sound he largely abandoned during an extended dalliance with Laurel Canyon country~rock ~ an infatuation that culminated in his position as a substitute Jerry Garcia in the Grateful Dead satellite group Dead & Company. Although it’s ostensibly a breakup album, The Search for Everything doesn’t feel haunted: Mayer glides through the record so smoothly, the supple sound seems almost insouciant. It is also quite alluring. Mayer may be reverting to the sound of Continuum, alternating between R&B workouts and soul~baring ballads, but forward movement is the unifying sentiment here. The nimble funk opener, “Moving on and Getting Over,” makes that plain, as does the plaintive “Changing,” which summarizes his plight simply: “I may be old and I may be young/But I am not done changing.” Some of Mayer’s change can be charted in how he hangs onto his romantic past, burying some of his heartache on the deceptively exuberant opener, “Still Feel Like Your Man,” and offering a bittersweet denouement in the admission “You’re Gonna Live Forever in Me.” Mirroring his emotional maturity is a sharpening of his songcraft. While he’s always shown a knack for slow~burning soul, the progression and arrangement of the smoldering “Rosie” feel as sophisticated as the lithe grace of “Emoji of a Wave,” while “Roll It on Home,” an easy~rolling country~rocker that tips its hat to the Dead, shows how he absorbed the lessons of his Laurel Canyon detour of Born and Raised and Paradise Valley. Those two records, along with such earlier workouts as Try! John Mayer Trio Live in Concert, reveal the extent of Mayer’s ambition, but The Search for Everything succeeds because he’s not donning a new costume: instead, he’s settling into a groove he can claim as his own, and it feels like he’s at home.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohnMayer
Website: http://johnmayer.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnmayer
Discography:
••› Room for Squares (2001, Sony Music Distribution)
••› Any Given Thursday (2003, Aware Records)
••› Heavier Things (2003, Aware Records)
••› as/is (2004, Ais / Sony Music Distribution)
••› Try! John Mayer Trio Live in Concert (2005, Aware Records)
••› Continuum (2006, Aware Records)
••› Battle Studies (2009, Sony Music Distribution / Columbia)
••› Born and Raised (2012, Columbia)
••› Paradise Valley (2013, Columbia)
••› The Search for Everything (2017, Columbia / Sony Music)
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| John Mayer |
The Search For Everything |
••› A talented guitarist with a plaintive vocal style, Mayer updated the confessional singer~songwriter style for the new millennium.
••› Mayer has won seven awards from nineteen nominations.
Born: John Clayton Mayer, October 16, 1977, Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.
Residence: Montana, U.S.
Education: Fairfield Warde High School
Occupation: Singer~songwriter, record producer
Home town: Fairfield, Connecticut, U.S.
Notable instruments: Fender Stratocaster, Martin Guitar
Genre: Pop, Rock, Soul, Funk
Album release: April 14th, 2017
Record Label: Columbia Records
Duration: 43:54
Tracks:
01. Still Feel Like Your Man 3:54
02. Emoji of a Wave 3:59
03. Helpless 4:09
04. Love On the Weekend 3:32
05. In the Blood 4:04
06. Changing 3:33
07. Theme From ‘The Search For Everything’ 1:54
08. Moving On and Getting Over 4:25
09. Never On The Day You Leave 3:43
10. Rosie 4:02
11. Roll It On Home 3:24
12. You’re Gonna Live Forever in Me 3:10
℗ 2017 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment
Credits:
•• Alex Alvarez Guitar Technician
•• Greg Calbi Mastering
•• Sheryl Crow Vocals
•• Jeremy Dean Art Direction, Design
•• Mike Elizondo Bass
•• James Fauntleroy Keyboards
•• Travis Ference Assistant Engineer
•• Chuck Findley Trumpet
•• Jeff Fitzpatrick Assistant Engineer
•• Robin Florent Mixing Assistant
•• Chad Franscoviak Engineer, Producer
•• Chris Galland Mixing Engineer
•• Steve Genewick Assistant Engineer
•• Larry Goldings Keyboards, Pump Organ
•• Jake Gorski Assistant Engineer
•• Chris Gott Production Manager
•• Gary Grant Trumpet
•• Chandler Harrod Assistant Engineer
•• Ken Helie Production Coordination
•• Jerry Hey Horn Arrangements, Horn Conductor
•• Daniel Higgins Saxophone
•• Jeff Jackson Mixing Assistant
•• Al Jardine Vocals
•• Matt Jardine Vocals
•• Steve Jordan Drums, Executive Producer, Percussion
•• Kurt Kasinoff Guitar Technician
•• Jim Keltner Drums
•• Greg Leisz Dobro, Lap Steel Guitar, Pedal Steel
•• Manny Marroquin Mixing
•• Andy Martin Trombone
•• René Martínez Guitar Technician
•• John Mayer Composer, Producer
•• Soey Milk Cover Art, Illustrations
•• Jeremy Miller Assistant Engineer
•• Frank Ockenfels III Photography
•• Charlie Paakkari Assistant Engineer
•• Pino Palladino Bass
•• Tiffany Palmer Vocals
•• Martin Pradler Digital Editing, Engineer
•• Nick Rives Assistant Engineer
•• Davide Rossi String Arrangements, String Engineer, Strings
•• Tyler Shields Assistant Engineer
•• Aaron Sterling Drums, Percussion
Description:
••› As previously revealed, the four songs released off The Search for Everything are “Moving On and Getting Over,” “Changing,” “Love on the Weekend,” and “You’re Gonna Live Forever in Me.” (“Love on the Weekend” was previously released as a single last year.)
••› Mayer’s last studio album was 2013’s Paradise Valley, but he has kept busy by both working on the new music and touring as the lead guitarist with Dead & Company (which features Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann). Mayer helped the group celebrate 50 years of the Grateful Dead in 2015 and 2016.
••› Last year, when announcing the release of “Love on the Weekend,” Mayer said of what became The Search for Everything, “There are more songs than can fit on your standard sized album. But I do think next year is the year of more music coming than I’ve ever put out in one year.”
iTunes Review
••› On the surface, John Mayer already has everything: guitar~god status, an honorary membership with the Grateful Dead, a trove of GRAMMY®s and Rolexes. But everything feels like nothing when you don’t have someone to share it with, especially when you’re nearing 40 and humbled by heartbreak. This album is about his quest for forgiveness, companionship, family, and meaning — the real everything. In classic Mayer fashion, it’s deeply sentimental and a little existential. On “In the Blood,” he ponders his fate with his heart on his sleeve: “How much of my mother has my mother left in me? How much of my love will be insane to some degree? And what about this feeling that I’m never good enough? Will it wash out in the water or is it always in the blood?”
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine; Score: ****½
••› John Mayer first teased his seventh album, The Search for Everything, through a pair of EPs that contained eight of the record’s 12 songs. It was a sly way for the singer/songwriter to ease back into his soulful side, a sound he largely abandoned during an extended dalliance with Laurel Canyon country~rock ~ an infatuation that culminated in his position as a substitute Jerry Garcia in the Grateful Dead satellite group Dead & Company. Although it’s ostensibly a breakup album, The Search for Everything doesn’t feel haunted: Mayer glides through the record so smoothly, the supple sound seems almost insouciant. It is also quite alluring. Mayer may be reverting to the sound of Continuum, alternating between R&B workouts and soul~baring ballads, but forward movement is the unifying sentiment here. The nimble funk opener, “Moving on and Getting Over,” makes that plain, as does the plaintive “Changing,” which summarizes his plight simply: “I may be old and I may be young/But I am not done changing.” Some of Mayer’s change can be charted in how he hangs onto his romantic past, burying some of his heartache on the deceptively exuberant opener, “Still Feel Like Your Man,” and offering a bittersweet denouement in the admission “You’re Gonna Live Forever in Me.” Mirroring his emotional maturity is a sharpening of his songcraft. While he’s always shown a knack for slow~burning soul, the progression and arrangement of the smoldering “Rosie” feel as sophisticated as the lithe grace of “Emoji of a Wave,” while “Roll It on Home,” an easy~rolling country~rocker that tips its hat to the Dead, shows how he absorbed the lessons of his Laurel Canyon detour of Born and Raised and Paradise Valley. Those two records, along with such earlier workouts as Try! John Mayer Trio Live in Concert, reveal the extent of Mayer’s ambition, but The Search for Everything succeeds because he’s not donning a new costume: instead, he’s settling into a groove he can claim as his own, and it feels like he’s at home.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohnMayer
Website: http://johnmayer.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnmayer
Discography:
••› Room for Squares (2001, Sony Music Distribution)
••› Any Given Thursday (2003, Aware Records)
••› Heavier Things (2003, Aware Records)
••› as/is (2004, Ais / Sony Music Distribution)
••› Try! John Mayer Trio Live in Concert (2005, Aware Records)
••› Continuum (2006, Aware Records)
••› Battle Studies (2009, Sony Music Distribution / Columbia)
••› Born and Raised (2012, Columbia)
••› Paradise Valley (2013, Columbia)
••› The Search for Everything (2017, Columbia / Sony Music)
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