{"id":6803,"date":"2012-06-22T12:15:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T19:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=6803"},"modified":"2012-06-22T12:15:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T19:15:07","slug":"john-mayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/06\/john-mayer\/","title":{"rendered":"JOHN MAYER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6804\" title=\"JOHN-MAYER-M-Review-May2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JOHN-MAYER-M-Review-May2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JOHN-MAYER-M-Review-May2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JOHN-MAYER-M-Review-May2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>J<\/strong><strong>OHN MAYER<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Born and Raised<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Columbia]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On his fifth album, John Mayer continues his slow shift away from the pop-rock mainstream and back into the singer-songwriter territory of his early days. The mostly mellow tone evinces some country leanings, with his gentle fingerpicked guitar, pedal steel and even some \u201960s folk harmonica. But there are a couple of low-key classic-rock jams with quiet, rambling electric guitar leads and subtle Hammond organ here\u2014not to mention guest vocals provided by David Crosby and Graham Nash on the title track. Lyrically, the singer and guitarist all too often noted for his controversial statements in interviews maintains the nice-guy image of his music through vague references to love. He fits in one or two allusions to the challenges of fame, but mostly muses on the importance of inner strength and persevering through life\u2019s ups and downs. \u201cDid you know you could be wrong and swear you\u2019re right?\u201d he asks on \u201cShadow Days.\u201d Perhaps Mayer is gaining self-awareness along with experience. \u2013Amanda Farah<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHN MAYER Born and Raised [Columbia] On his fifth album, John Mayer continues his slow shift away from the pop-rock mainstream and back into the singer-songwriter territory of his early days. The mostly mellow tone evinces some country leanings, with his gentle fingerpicked guitar, pedal steel and even some \u201960s folk harmonica. But there are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,4119,389,4120,4121,1674,3754],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6805,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803\/revisions\/6805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}