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The consistency with which John Mayer combines word craft and melody has earned him rarefied status as a respected songwriter and musician. As one of few musicians to achieve both critical acclaim and popular appeal, the seven-time Grammy Award winner has earned accolades for each album release while selling in excess of 17 million albums worldwide.
Known as a musician who defies genre boundaries, John Mayer is well known for collaborations with a range of artists. From rock to blues, hip-hop to jazz to country, Mayer has performed and/or recorded with Eric Clapton, BB King, Buddy Guy, T-Bone Burnett, Herbie Hancock, Dixie Chicks, Jay Z and Alicia Keys.
John has been writing and recording a new album expected to be released in the coming months. The release will coincide with a residency theater tour of major markets. A bit of a return to his grassroots, expect this project to demonstrate more of an organic, singer/songwriter vibe than his most recent releases. See him perform live this March when he makes his first return to SXSW since performing in a career changing showcase back in 2000.
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Some of Music’s greatest musicians, showmen and supporters will appear at The NAMM SHOW’S MEDIA PREVIEW DAY, which highlights the best musical instruments, apps. and technologies of the future available to professional music-makers and the public in 2012. MEDIA PREVIEW DAY offers access to the Music App. & Gaming Pavilion and gives media a pre-Show advantage of previewing the top never-before-seen musical instruments and products chosen from 1,400 that will be presented over the course of the four-day show. Each year NAMM (The National Association of Music Merchants) produces The NAMM Show, which is the largest musical instruments and products trade-only show in North America, with 90,000+ attendees and more than 1,400 exhibitors from over 90 countries.
Singer-songwriter and producer Brian Wilson will receive NAMM’s highest honor, the Music for Life Award, for his musical impact and contributions over the course of more than 50 years. Joe Lamond, president & CEO of NAMM, will conduct a stage Q&A with the Beach Boys icon. Guitarist John Mayer will demo and announce a new music partnership with a long-time NAMM member company; the last surviving member of The Mamas & The Papas, Michelle Phillips, will receive a special tribute and will perform; blues rocker and singer-songwriter Kenny Wayne Shepherd will perform and introduce a new Guitar World music app.; strong NAMM supporter and gifted bass player, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, will appear to discuss his love of music and the importance of playing music.
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Congrats to John for his Grammy Nominations. Here they are!
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance – Half of My Heart
Best Pop Vocal Album – Battle Studies
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It’s never been a secret that Taylor Swift writes her songs about guys who come in and out of her life.
In fact, her new album, Speak Now, is filled with tunes about her last two years of relationship ups and downs, and she doesn’t hold back. “This is album number three, so I figure that these people have had fair warning,” the singer tells PEOPLE.
So is her new song “Dear John” – a biting ballad with lyrics about an older guy who “messed with” her. Could it be inspired by John Mayer?
The pair collaborated on a song together last year, and bonded over a dinner in Nashville in January.
When asked by PEOPLE if the song was about the singer, Swift, 20, widened her eyes and avoided answering the question.
“A lot of times when people’s relationships end, they write an e-mail to that person and say everything that they wish they would have said,” she explains. “A lot of times they don’t push send.”
The message on “Dear John,” which is due out Oct. 25, includes lines such as “Don’t you think I was too young to be messed with” – Mayer is 33 – and “Maybe it’s you and your sick need to give love and take it away.”
“This was a tough one to write,” says Swift, “and I guess putting it on the album was pushing send.”
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