John Mayer
At the 2003 Grammy Awards, the American singer, songwriter and guitarist John Mayer accepted a trophy and made a promise. The prize was for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, won by the song "Your Body Is a Wonderland." His speech included a single memorable line: "This is very, very fast, and I promise to catch up." He also described himself, figuratively, as being 16. Plenty of listeners took that remark literally and assumed he was a teenager.
That promise to catch up is a useful thread to follow. Here was a man who seemed to be moving faster than anyone, himself included, could explain. What exactly was he trying to catch up to? Why would a pop star with a teen-idol image spend years proving himself as a guitarist? What happens to a singer when the voice behind the hits suddenly stops working? And how did a boy from Connecticut end up stepping into the shoes of Jerry Garcia?
John Mayer was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on the 16th of October 1977. His father, Richard, was the principal of Central High School in Bridgeport. His mother, Margaret, taught English in a middle school. He grew up in nearby Fairfield as the middle child, with an older half-sister named Rachel, an older brother named Carl and a younger brother named Ben. In elementary school he became close with a boy who would grow up to be the tennis star James Blake. For three years they played Nintendo together after school on weekday afternoons. For his junior year of high school, Mayer attended a magnet program at Brien McMahon High School in Norwalk, where students studied Japanese.
Michael J. Fox, playing Marty McFly in Back to the Future, first made Mayer fascinated by the guitar. When Mayer turned 13, his father rented one for him. Soon afterward a neighbor handed him a Stevie Ray Vaughan cassette, and the blues took hold. Mayer later described what followed as a "genealogical hunt" that led him backward to Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Freddie King, Albert King, Otis Rush and Lightnin' Hopkins. He took lessons from Al Ferrante, who owned a local guitar shop, and he became consumed. His parents grew so worried by his single-mindedness that they twice took him to a psychiatrist. The doctor judged him healthy. Mayer has linked the intensity to his parents' contentious marriage, saying it made him want to "disappear and create my own world I could believe in."
After two years of practice, Mayer was playing bars and other venues while still in high school. He performed solo and also joined a band called Villanova Junction, named for a Jimi Hendrix song. His bandmates were Tim Procaccini, Joe Beleznay and Rich Wolf.
At 17, Mayer was stricken with a heart rhythm disorder called cardiac dysrhythmia and spent a weekend in the hospital. He later said, "That was the moment the songwriter in me was born." He wrote his first lyrics the night he came home. Panic attacks followed soon after, along with a fear of ending up in a mental institution. He still manages those episodes with anti-anxiety medication. As graduation approached, his parents would have to weigh in on whether a college degree mattered more than the music.
Berklee College of Music in Boston enrolled Mayer in 1997, at age 19, after his parents talked him out of skipping college altogether. His friend Clay Cook pushed him to leave after just two semesters, and the two moved to Atlanta. There they formed a duo called LoFi Masters and played coffeehouses and clubs, including Eddie's Attic. According to Cook, the partnership ended over musical differences, because Mayer wanted to head toward pop. Mayer went solo.
A local producer and engineer named Glenn Matullo helped him record an independent EP, Inside Wants Out. It held eight songs, with Mayer on lead vocals and guitars. The opening track, "Back To You," brought in a full band, including David "DeLa" LaBruyere on bass. LaBruyere also co-produced the record. Cook had co-written many of the songs, among them the first commercial single, "No Such Thing." Yet his only performing credit was backing vocals on "Comfortable."
Mayer and LaBruyere played shows across Georgia and neighboring states, and his career arrived just as internet music was taking off. An online following grew around him. A lawyer acquainted with Mayer mailed the EP to Gregg Latterman at Aware Records. Aware featured him at its festivals and on its compilations, then released his album Room for Squares in early 2001, available only online. Meanwhile Aware struck a deal giving Columbia Records first pick of its artists. In September, Columbia remixed and re-released the album with new artwork and an added track, "3x5." It also carried reworked studio versions of the first four songs from the EP.
By the end of 2002, the album had produced radio hits including "No Such Thing" and "Why Georgia," and critics compared Mayer to Dave Matthews. In February 2003 he released Any Given Thursday, a live CD and DVD recorded in Birmingham, Alabama. It reached number 17 on the Billboard 200. AllMusic's Erik Crawford captured the split in opinion by asking whether Mayer was the guitar hero who covered Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Lenny," or the teen idol who made young fans shriek. That summer he toured with Counting Crows on 42 dates between the 7th of July and the 2nd of September.
His second album, Heavier Things, came out in 2003 to favorable if reserved reviews from Rolling Stone, Allmusic and Blender. It sold less than Room for Squares but still hit number one on the Billboard 200. The song "Daughters" won the 2005 Grammy for Song of the Year, reached number one on the Billboard Adult Pop Songs chart and climbed to number 19 on the Hot 100. Mayer dedicated the award to his grandmother, Annie Hoffman, who had died in May 2004.
On the 9th of February 2009, he told Ellen DeGeneres he believed Alicia Keys' "If I Ain't Got You" was the better song. So he removed the top half of the Grammy and gave it to Keys, keeping the bottom half. In 2006 the Songwriters Hall of Fame gave him its Hal David Starlight Award. In 2004 he recorded seven nights of his U.S. tour and released them on the iTunes Store as As/Is, a title admitting that the mistakes stayed in. The covers show drawings of anthropomorphic bunnies.
Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly wrote in 2002 that Mayer was "more historically savvy, and more ambitious than you'd guess from the unforced earnestness of Room for Squares." The public still filed him under Adult Contemporary and singer-songwriter. Fame, though, opened a path to his heroes. In December 2003 he joined Buddy Guy for a concert at Irving Plaza. He toured with the jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, including a show at the Bonnaroo Music Festival. He also played on records by Eric Clapton (Back Home and the Crossroads Guitar Festival), Buddy Guy (Bring 'Em In), John Scofield (That's What I Say) and B.B. King (80).
Hip-hop opened up next. The rapper Common sampled Mayer's voice on the song "Go." Mayer also appeared on a hidden track, "Bittersweet Poetry," on Kanye West's album Graduation. Jay-Z and Nelly praised the collaborations. Mayer explained his thinking this way: "It's not music out there right now. That's why, to me, hip-hop is where rock used to be."
In 2005, Mayer announced he was "closing up shop on acoustic sensitivity." That spring he formed the John Mayer Trio with bassist Pino Palladino and drummer Steve Jordan. He had met both men through studio sessions, and the group blended blues and rock. In October 2005 the Trio opened for the Rolling Stones, and that November they released the live album Try! The band took a break in mid-2006.
Continuum arrived on the 12th of September 2006, produced by Mayer and Steve Jordan. Mayer wanted to mix blues with pop, and he carried over two songs from Try!, "Vultures" and "Gravity." The label's reaction was cold. In a Rolling Stone interview, Mayer recalled that after Columbia's then-head Don Ienner panned the record, he briefly considered quitting music to study design full-time. Columbia felt the album had no hits and pushed him to make "Waiting on the World to Change." He has since said it is the song he likes performing live least.
The album earned five Grammy nominations, including Album of the Year, announced on the 7th of December 2006. Mayer won two, among them Best Pop Vocal Album for Continuum. The Trio's Try! was nominated too. In 2007, Time magazine's editors listed Mayer among the 100 Most Influential People. Rolling Stone put him on a February 2007 cover, issue number 1020, alongside John Frusciante and Derek Trucks under the banner "New Guitar Gods." The cover nicknamed him Slowhand Jr., a nod to Eric Clapton.
On the 7th of July 2009, Mayer played an instrumental guitar version of Michael Jackson's "Human Nature" at Jackson's televised memorial service. That same year he faced the problem of following Continuum. His solution was a shrug: "I think it got a lot easier when I realized that no matter what I do, it's not going to be Continuum, good or bad." Battle Studies debuted at number one on the 17th of November 2009, and its arena tour grossed US$45 million. Reviews split. Some called it his "most adventurous" album, while others found it "safe." Mayer himself told Rolling Stone it was not his best. Chris Richards, reviewing a 2017 show, would call him "an amazing guitar player" while saying so "through clenched teeth."
Early in his career, Mayer vowed to avoid drugs, alcohol, clubbing, red-carpet events and dating celebrities. He wanted nothing that might pull attention from the music. In his twenties, an episode he later called an "anxiety bender" pushed him to be less reclusive. In 2006 he first mentioned using marijuana, and he began turning up at clubs in Los Angeles and New York City. His relationship with Jessica Simpson became the first in a string of famous girlfriends that included Jennifer Aniston and Minka Kelly. By 2007 his private life was regular fodder for gossip media. In response he tried to steer his image, staging pranks for paparazzi and hosting a segment on TMZ.
Mayer also grew prolific online. He kept five blogs, including a Myspace page, one on his official site, one at Honeyee.com, a tumblr and a photoblog at StunningNikon.com. On Twitter he wrote his own posts and reached 3.7 million followers. He called his defensive replies to the media the "maintenance of vapor." On the 23rd of January 2008, he posted a passage warning of "danger in theoretical speculation of battle" and urging "the return to nature." He then deleted all his earlier blog entries. On the 14th of September 2010, he deleted his personal Twitter account.
Taylor Swift sang on "Half of My Heart" from Battle Studies in November 2009. Rumors of a romance spread, and neither of them addressed it. In 2010 Swift released "Dear John," which was widely believed to be about him. In June 2012, Mayer criticized the song, saying she had never contacted him. The song "Paper Doll" was reported to be his reply. On the 21st of March 2019, on his show Current Mood, he said: "When 'Paper Doll' came out, 100% of the people believed it was about somebody." He said it was not about that person. Because songwriters do not say who their songs are about, he could not correct anyone.
Katy Perry shared a different kind of public moment with him. Mayer co-wrote and recorded the duet "Who You Love" with her for Paradise Valley. A Vanity Fair photo shoot by Mario Sorrenti of the couple supplied the single's cover. They sang it together at Barclays Center in Brooklyn on the 17th of December 2013, the final night of the Born and Raised World Tour. Their relationship ended in 2014.
In February 2010, Mayer gave two revealing interviews, one to Rolling Stone and one to Playboy. In the Playboy conversation he offered sexually explicit details about two former girlfriends and used a racial slur. The media accused him of misogyny and racism. He apologized on Twitter, writing, "It was arrogant of me to think I could intellectualize... a word that is so emotionally charged." That night in Nashville he tearfully apologized to his band and fans. He left New York and stopped giving interviews. Speaking on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in May 2012, he said: "I lost my head for a little while and I did a couple of dumb interviews and it kind of woke me up." He called it "a violent crash into being an adult." Out of sight, he turned toward the early-1970s sound of Laurel Canyon for his next album.
On the 16th of September 2011, Mayer told his blog readers that his fifth album, Born and Raised, would be delayed. Doctors had found a granuloma on his vocal cords. He called it a "temporary setback" and said only a few vocal tracks were left to finish. A month later, on the 20th of October 2011, he wrote: "I had surgery this afternoon to remove it and am now on complete vocal rest for a month or more." He planned to "travel the country, look, and listen." The surgery did not work as hoped, and a second operation followed. Along the way he visited Bozeman, Montana, fell in love with it, bought a house and settled there in the spring of 2012.
With treatment finished, he completed the vocals. The first single, "Shadow Days," came out on the 27th of February 2012, and the release date was set for the 22nd of May. Mayer called it his "most honest" album and booked more intimate venues than he had played on the Battle Studies tour. He even accepted an invitation to South by Southwest. Then, on the 9th of March 2012, the granuloma returned. He announced he had to cancel the tour and stop singing indefinitely.
The record came out on schedule anyway and entered the Billboard 200 at number one, selling 219,000 copies in its first week. Rolling Stone ranked it number 17 among the 50 Best Albums of 2012, and People magazine called it "a shimmering album." Even so, it sold less than his earlier work.
Mayer feared lasting damage and began to imagine a future as a session guitarist. Seeking a cure, he went to the UCLA Voice Center. That September, the otolaryngologist Dr. Gerald Berke paralyzed Mayer's vocal cords with high-dose Botox injections, hoping the granuloma would heal. Mayer's silence stretched to several months, and he could not even speak. He could only accompany other musicians. In September 2012 he joined the musical guest Frank Ocean on Saturday Night Live, and in December he played with the Rolling Stones in New Jersey.
In January 2013, Mayer returned to a stage in Bozeman for a benefit after nearly two years without singing in public. He performed with Zac Brown, and the night raised more than $100,000 for firefighters who battled a summer 2012 wildfire in Paradise Valley that destroyed 12,000 acres. In April 2013 he appeared at the Crossroads Guitar Festival, then at the 28th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, where he inducted the late Albert King. A show at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater in Alabama on the 25th of April, followed by a set at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival the next day, marked his first full-length concerts since his health troubles.
Paul-free of that setback, Mayer announced in June 2013 that he was finishing his sixth album, Paradise Valley. Don Was produced the low-key folk-rock collection, and Frank Ocean joined him on "Wildfire Pt. 2." It was released on the 20th of August 2013, debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 and sold 145,560 copies in its first week. His tour, the first in three years, featured Phillip Phillips as the opener and reached Australia in April 2014. At a concert in Adelaide he covered Beyonce's "XO." A studio version appeared on his SoundCloud on the 22nd of May, and it debuted at number 90 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In 2011, Pandora radio happened to play the Grateful Dead song "Althea," and Mayer soon found himself listening to little else. He had known the band's music since at least high school, but this chance encounter turned curiosity into obsession. In February 2015, while guest hosting The Late Late Show, he invited the Dead guitarist Bob Weir to perform with him. They played "Althea" and "Truckin'." Weir was impressed and began planning to work with Mayer after the Fare Thee Well shows with Trey Anastasio, which were billed as something of a finale for the band.
Speaking to Rolling Stone in 2016, Weir contrasted his two guitar partners: "John is a classicist by nature. Trey is more of an iconoclast." He called them both explorers who were willing to break tradition. Mayer, he said, had moved musically to the point where he could intuit the songs, and the two were feeling each other out "several bars down the road."
In June 2015, Mayer sat in for two nights with Phil Lesh and Friends at Terrapin Crossroads, recreating the Dead's notable concerts of the 8th of May and the 9th of June 1977. That August, Mayer joined Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart to form Dead & Company. Jeff Chimenti, who had toured with Dead spin-offs since the 1990s, took the keyboards. Oteil Burbridge of the Allman Brothers Band played bass. Billboard called the fall tour "magical." Lesh declined to join. In 2017 he told Rolling Stone, "I think they're doing a great job," adding that he was "done with that kind of touring."
The idea of a pop singer stepping in for Jerry Garcia met skepticism from fans and critics at first. Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes said to Howard Stern that "everything that Jerry Garcia ever talked about or stood for, John Mayer is the antithesis." Mayer told Rolling Stone he cared about the band "too much to give that comment life," and that he was "done debating his own merits." He has joined every annual tour since 2015, and the group has considered recording a studio album of Dead songs and perhaps originals.
The touring pushed his own work aside. He postponed his next studio album until January 2016. On the 17th of November 2016, he released "Love on the Weekend," the lead single from the EP The Search for Everything: Wave One. The full album, a loose concept record about a romantic break-up, came out on the 14th of April 2017. On the 5th of December 2017, during a Dead & Company fall tour, Mayer's appendix burst. He needed an emergency appendectomy, and the remaining dates were moved to February 2018.
On the 10th of May 2018, he released "New Light," co-produced with No I.D. During 2020 on Current Mood, he said he was writing and recording a new album. By early 2021 he was posting snippets of new songs on TikTok, and the album was already finished. An April release hinted at in an interview slipped. Sob Rock was announced on the 1st of June 2021, and it arrived on the 16th of July, steeped in the sound of 1980s soft rock.
In 2003, Martin Guitars gave Mayer his own signature acoustic, the OM-28 John Mayer. The run was limited to 404 instruments, an Atlanta area code. From 2005, Fender released two signature Stratocasters. A third, finished in charcoal frost metallic with a racing stripe, was limited to 100. In January 2006, Martin followed with the cheaper OMJM model. By then, Mayer was estimated to own more than 200 guitars.
His most famous guitar is the "Black1." After the Heavier Things tour, he went to the Fender Custom Shop wanting to build something inspired by Rory Gallagher and Stevie Ray Vaughan. He enlisted the master builder John Cruz. The goal was an all-black version of Vaughan's "First Wife" Stratocaster, heavily aged to match. It was the main guitar on Continuum, heard on "I Don't Trust Myself With Loving You" and "Bold as Love." Fender's Custom Shop made 83 replicas, and all sold within 24 hours. A production model in 2010 was limited to 500.
In 2014 Mayer announced he was no longer a Fender artist, and his signature line left production. In 2015 he began working with PRS Guitars. The Super Eagle appeared in March 2016, limited to 100 instruments that each sold for more than $10,000. A Super Eagle II followed in June 2017, limited to 120. In January 2018 Martin announced a John Mayer Signature D-45, limited to 45 instruments at $14,999. March 2018 brought his Silver Sky from PRS. Music Trade called it "derivative," while Guitar Player's Matt Blackett said it delivers on the promise of being a "damn-near-perfect version of this type of guitar."
Mayer owns several Dumble amplifiers, a famously exclusive brand. They include the Dumbleland Special that Stevie Ray Vaughan used to record Texas Flood. He played through it at Vaughan's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, calling the moment "special." His live use of a Marshall Bluesbreaker pedal, unpopular during its brief production in the early 1990s, led Marshall to reissue that entire line of effects pedals.
Watches are his other obsession. Mayer says collecting keeps him "sane," and he values the collection in the "tens of millions" of dollars. It includes a Patek Philippe with a Sky Moon Tourbillon and a Rolex GMT Master 116710 BLNR. His signature watch is an IWC Big Pilot Ref 5002. He has served as a juror at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève and writes for the website Hodinkee. In a column dated the 16th of January 2015, he published an open letter urging IWC to simplify its designs. IWC politely defended its choices. In March 2024, Audemars Piguet named him its "Creative Conduit." Alongside the title came a limited Perpetual Calendar Royal Oak he designed, with a faceted blue "Crystal Sky" dial, made in an edition of 200.
Steve Jobs invited Mayer to perform at Apple's Macworld keynote in January 2004, as Jobs introduced the music software GarageBand. Mayer returned for the 2007 iPhone announcement. That same year, VH1 aired his half-hour special John Mayer Has a TV Show, with a stunt involving a bear suit in a concert parking lot. In the June 2004 issue of Esquire he began a column called "Music Lessons with John Mayer." Years later, on the 30th of September 2018, his Instagram Live show Current Mood debuted on IGTV. It aired weekly, and guests included Dave Chappelle and Shawn Mendes. The show produced jingles like "Drone Shot of My Yacht."
In October 2023, Mayer announced a Sirius XM channel called "Life with John Mayer," built around music he curates, including unreleased material. In November 2024 it added an interview series, "How's Life." Billy Joel was the first guest, followed by Shawn Mendes and Maren Morris.
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Who is John Mayer?
John Mayer is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on the 16th of October 1977. He rose to fame with Room for Squares and has released eight studio albums.
What happened to John Mayer's voice?
A granuloma on his vocal cords delayed Born and Raised and forced him to cancel its tour in 2012. After surgeries and months of vocal rest, he returned to full-length concerts in April 2013.
How did John Mayer join Dead & Company?
After falling for the Grateful Dead's music in 2011, he played with Bob Weir on The Late Late Show in 2015. That August he formed Dead & Company with Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, Jeff Chimenti and Oteil Burbridge.
What is the Black1?
The Black1 is Mayer's best-known guitar, an all-black, heavily aged Stratocaster inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan's First Wife. It was the main guitar on Continuum.
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- 154MagazineMayer Flies With Crows For Summer TourApril 4, 2003
- 157MagazineOn the Scene at the 2010 CMT Music AwardsJune 9, 2010
- 164Scaggs, Austin and Sheffield, Rob (June 24, 2004), "Your Prom Is a Wonderland". Rolling Stone. (951):60.
- 168John Mayer Returns to the Road On Summer Concert TourSony Music — July 3, 2002
- 169Fall John Mayer Tour Dates AnnouncedSony Music — October 25, 2002
- 170MagazineJohn Mayer Lining Up 2004 DatesDecember 3, 2003
- 171MagazineJohn Mayer Plots Winter U.S. TourOctober 31, 2006
- 172MagazineMayer Schedules Summer 'Continuum' Tour With FoldsMarch 14, 2007
- 173John Mayer 2019 World TourJanuary 28, 2019
- 174MagazineBob Weir on Dead & Company's Future, John Mayer's StrengthsDavid Fricke — 31 May 2016
- 176MagazinePhil Lesh on Grateful Dead 'Long Strange Trip' doc: "it's not the whole story."May 25, 2017
- 177Newman, Melinda (April 17, 2004), "John Mayer Tries Hand At New Instrument". Billboard. 116 (16):13.
- 180Mayer to tweet no moreCNN
- 183John Mayer Performs Raunchy Stand-UpMarla Lehner — May 22, 2007
- 189Inside John Mayer's Star-Studded Audemars Piguet Launch PartyOren Hartov — April 20, 2024
- 190John Mayer Designed a New Watch That He Predicts 'Will Outlive Me'Degen Pener — April 18, 2024
- 191John Mayer's Collaboration With Audemars Piguet Doesn't DisappointMarch 13, 2024
- 193Watch Thundercat and John Mayer Perform 'Them Changes' on InstagramTosten Burks — October 29, 2018
- 194MagazineHow John Mayer Got a Grip on Fame -- and Intends to Bring 'Truth' Back to MusicNick Catucci — November 8, 2018
- 196MagazineJohn Mayer to Launch a New SiriusXM ChannelRania Aniftos — October 2, 2023
- 197Meet Sirius XM's new odd couple: Warren Buffett and John MayerMarch 2, 2024
- 202'Rollin' With Zach' and 'The Ambush Cook' This December on OWNNovember 11, 2011
- 203CBS Taps 'The Talk' and Guest Hosts To Fill 'Late Late Show'November 26, 2014
- 204John MayerCasey Jost — March 2, 2023
- 211John Mayer - Black One StoryJanuary 5, 2012
- 212Fender Custom Shop Road Show With John Cruz - John MayerDecember 3, 2015
- 213Fender Custom Shop John Mayer BLACK1Rob Laing — December 21, 2010
- 216John Mayer Announces Split with FenderOctober 17, 2014
- 218John Mayer's PRS Private Stock Super Eagle guitar takes flightMichael Astley-Brown — March 15, 2016
- 219J-MOD 100
- 222MagazinePRS Guitars Announces John Mayer Limited Edition Private Stock Super Eagle IIJune 7, 2017
- 224Martin Announces High-End John Mayer Signature D-45Reverb — January 4, 2018
- 225Silver Sky
- 226MagazinePRS Guitars Announces New John Mayer Signature Model: The Silver SkyMarch 6, 2018
- 227JournalWHY PRS IS GAINING SHARE IN THE GUITAR MARKETOctober 2018
- 228JournalSilver Sky John Mayer SignatureMATT Blackett — July 2018
- 229John Mayer owns the Dumble amp that Stevie Ray Vaughan used to record Texas FloodMatt Owen — Guitar World — March 17, 2022
- 232NewsHe's a stellar guitarist, but his songs are staidChris Richards — April 7, 2017
- 233Why John Mayer Is Music's Forgotten SuperstarSteve Baltin — April 22, 2017
- 234Chris Robinson Had Some Harsh Words For Both John Mayer And His Brother On Howard SternMing Lee Newcomb — May 16, 2017
- 235John Mayer Addresses Chris Robinson's Criticisms In New InterviewMing Lee Newcomb — June 28, 2017
- 236John Mayer Quit Drinking After Making 'Quite a Fool of Myself' at Drake's 30th Birthday PartySarah Michaud — November 12, 2018
- 237John Mayer Talks Life on the Road, Latest AlbumJessi Savino — February 3, 2007
- 238(March 29, 2014), "THE Action". Billboard. 126 (11):3
- 240John Mayer Admits He Was Wrong About Potentially Fake $600,000 Rolex CollectionCAMERON WOLF — May 21, 2015
- 244How John Mayer Helped Return Bob Saget's Body to California After His DeathEmily Travis — E! — January 20, 2022
- 246MagazineJohn Mayer admits: 'I was a jerk'Terry Eastland — February 7, 2013
- 248MagazineLady In Red: Katy PerryLaura Brown — September 10, 2014
- 249MagazineTaylor Swift and John Mayer's Relationship: A Look BackSophie Dodd — July 6, 2023
- 250MagazineJohn Mayer in His Own WordsJanuary 22, 2010
- 251NewsSquare peggedBlake Guthrie — May 16, 2001
- 252JournalJohn Mayer Performs, Fakes Pal's Hospital TripJennifer Garcia — June 15, 2009
- 253NewsJohn Mayer TMZ Video: 'Am I Really A Celebrity?'August 5, 2008
- 254NewsJohn Mayer's Playboy Interview Causes Uproar OnlineMTV News — February 10, 2010
- 258VideoJohn Mayer Cries/Apologizes in Nashville, TN 10 February 2010 Sommet CenterFebruary 10, 2010
- 259John Mayer: 'I lost my head for a while'Joyce Chen — May 15, 2012
- 260John Mayer 'Lost His Head' 2 Years AgoEmma Koonse — May 16, 2012
- 261John Mayer Talks Taylor Swift Collaboration 'Half of My Heart'Jocelyn Vena — MTV — November 6, 2009
- 262MagazineJohn Mayer: Taylor Swift's 'Dear John' Song 'Humiliated Me'June 11, 2012
- 263MagazinePhotos: Five Reasons to Think Taylor Swift Is John Mayer's "Paper Doll"Julie Miller — June 19, 2013
- 264VideoCurrent Mood from Brisbane, Australia—John Mayer World Tour 2019Instagram — March 21, 2019
- 266Katy Perry joins John Mayer on stage for first-ever live performance of 'Who You Love'Rachel Maresca — December 18, 2013
- 268NewsJohn Mayer
- 269NewsMore cities added to John Mayer's itineraryKim Kilgore — 2007
- 270JournalSweet CharityAllison Adato — April 7, 2003
- 271NewsCelebrities share Elton John's visionElysa Gardner — November 4, 2005
- 272A Concert For Virginia TechVirginia Tech — August 1, 2006
- 273NewsFly on the wallJanuary 7, 2008
- 274New Show: 1st Annual Holiday Charity Revue on December 8 at Nokia Theatre LA LiveJohn Mayer — John Mayer — November 14, 2007
- 275NewsSting, Matthews, Mayer Gamer for Tibet Than BeijingNatalie Finn — E! — July 22, 2008
- 276Press releaseJohn Mayer, Keith Urban Help Tiger Woods Raise Approximately $750,000 for the Tiger Woods Foundation at the 2011 Tiger JamMay 2, 2011
- 277Pine Creek fire at 12,000 acres; at least 5 homes lostZach Benoit — August 31, 2012
- 278Musician John Mayer Gives His Dad A Gift That Will Keep On GivingC — 2017-10-16
- 280MagazineJohn Mayer Launches Heart and Armor Foundation to Aid VeteransJon Blistein — March 1, 2019
- 282John Mayer Launches Heart and Armor Foundation: 'We Can All Do a Better Job of Sharing the Burden'Sarah Michaud — March 1, 2019
- 2852003 Teen Choice Awards NomineesJune 18, 2003
- 288List of Teen Choice Awards winnersAugust 27, 2007
- 289Britney, Mariah, Usher, Lil Wayne Earn MTV VMA NodsAnn Donahue — July 28, 2008
- 290Most Performed SongsApril 22, 2009
- 291Congratulations to the 2011 CMT Award NomineesApril 27, 2011