Line #33 Music/JohnMayer


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6	+ Music/BBKing, Music/EricClapton, Music/StevieRayVaughan, Buddy Guy, Music/JimiHendrix, Music/ThePolice, Music/PearlJam, Music/NeilYoung]
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8	John Clayton Mayer (born October 16, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. While he's mostly known for making {{pop}} {{rock}} songs, he's thrown elements of funk, folk, and especially {{Blues}} in his music.
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10	He is acclaimed for his skills as a guitarist, which was influenced by several guitarists, mainly Buddy Guy, Music/BBKing, and Music/EricClapton. Clapton himself called Mayer a "master" at guitar.
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12	Mayer also formed the John Mayer Trio, which he still tours with to this day.
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14	!!Studio Discography
15	* 2001 - ''Room for Squares''
16	* 2003 - ''Heavier Things''
17	* 2006 - ''Continuum''
18	* 2009 - ''Battle Studies''
19	* 2012 - ''Born and Raised''
20	* 2013 - ''Paradise Valley''
21	* 2017 - ''The Search for Everything''
22	* 2021 - ''Sob Rock''
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24	!!"My dear, we're slow troping in a burning room":
25	* TitleOnlyChorus: "Say (What You Need to Say)" from ''Continuum''.
26	* {{Blues}}: He regularly infuses the genre with his usual pop rock.
27	* BluesRock: While his main work is usually soft rock or pop rock with blues elements, his work in the John Mayer Trio is pure blues rock.
28	* ChristmasSongs: While the song's about holidays more broadly (and features a different one in its title), "St. Patrick's Day" often gets airplay in the Christmas season as a more melancholy alternative to the more festive fare, with its motifs of cold weather, themes of strained relationships, and lyrical hook of "No one wants to be alone at Christmas time."
29	* CoverVersion: He famously covered Music/TomPetty's "Free Fallin'". He also did one on Music/BruceSpringsteen's "I'm on Fire" as well as multiple other songs.
30	* EgocentricTeamNaming: His {{Blues}} RockTrio called the John Mayer Trio.
31	* FemalesAreMoreInnocent: "Daughters" is about a man who is rejected by a girl and so admonishes fathers to treat their daughters well because it will influence how she falls in love later in life - as if the only reason she could have rejected him is because her father was cold or abusive. Becomes a DoubleStandard in the bridge, which states you can "break" boys and they'll be fine, but don't you dare even raise your voice to a girl or she might turn someone down one day.
32	* GrowingUpSucks: "Stop This Train" is a song about the fear of life moving by too fast, and worry of what comes with age.
33	* HolidayMotif: "St. Patrick's Day" has Mayer reflecting on how the string of American holidays from November through February are largely romantic in nature and help to sustain relationships--though all bets are off when they reach St. Patrick's Day.
34	* IntercourseWithYou: "Your Body Is A Wonderland" is a song about a satisfying sexual relationship with a lover.
35	* LadykillerInLove: "Assassin" is about a ladykiller who falls for one of his many conquests. Unfortunately for him, she is only interested in a one-night stand. "I was a killer was the best they've ever seen. I'd steal your heart before you ever heard a thing... LittleDidIKnow that girl was an assassin too."
36	* LeadSingerPlaysLeadGuitar: Mayer sings and plays lead and rhythm guitar on his songs. This is particularly evident during live-performances or when he's in the John Mayer Trio.
37	* OpenMouthInsertFoot: In "My Stupid Mouth", Mayer sings about a date where he said something offensive, and laments that he'll never speak up again if it means he won't be rejected.
38	* ProtestSong: "Waiting on the World to Change" is about world leaders' mismanagement of international affairs, and the media's skewed coverage of the same.
39	* RockTrio: Along with bassist Pino Palladino and drummer Steve Jordan, Mayer formed the blues rock band the [[EgocentricTeamNaming John Mayer Trio]].
40	* SplitScreenPhoneCall: "Split Screen Sadness" references this trope, where a girlfriend tells her boyfriend over the phone some bad news.

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