But even after that, it was hard not to picture a 19-year-old sorority pin-up prancing around the quad, bellowing the bridge to Ray Charles’s “I’ve Got a Woman”, while texting her girls about how awful Biology was. It was an obvious - albeit necessary - attempt at nailing down the true fans, and even gaining some newer, older ones. Sure, he may have proved his fruition with his Trio’s 2005 effort Try!. Really, you aren’t even supposed to know what a quarter-life crisis is when you can’t legally drink in the States. In fact, it was the introduction of such a young man’s gravity that made us pay attention. After all, songs like “No Such Thing” and “Your Body Is a Wonderland” aren’t the reasons we were listening back in 2001.
JOHN MAYER WHERE THE LIGHT IS SONG LIST FULL
But it is a recording that proves Mayer himself has come full circle. Where the Light Is isn’t Any Given Thursday, Mayer’s first attempt at a live album. Oh, what eight years and the blues can do to a young man. In are the matured twenty-somethings, the credibly over-qualified backing musicians, and just about anybody who still cares about making sure a generation has an actual, real, live guitar hero that isn’t just a videogame craze. Gone are the screaming teens and predictable Police covers. You see, what Johnny did was Johnny went and grew up. “Go tell your friends / Go tell your friends, your stupid friends / Exactly / Exactly what Johnny did”, John Mayer croons on the bluesy “Out of My Mind”.