“It turns out we’re just not all that special, when you break it down. Beautifully unspectacular, actually.”
“And you look in the mirror one day and you go ‘well, it’s not exactly what I was thinking about, but I’ll take it.”
— John Mayer
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Well, that’s a wrap on release week promotion for Born and Raised. It’s so phenomenally weird to wake up this morning at home and not in the back of a bus somewhere. On the bright side, releasing this album and getting back in touch with my fans has been something I’ve been waiting to experience for a long time now. I’m finally at a place in my life where I can truly appreciate the kindness and support, and you have shown me lots of it. Thank you for that.
As I understand it, the album is set to enter the charts at number one, which is just incredible on all your parts because there has been very little I’ve been able to do to promote it. In a world of schemes and strategies when it comes to selling something, you guys just bought music you trusted you’d like. You picked it up in the same way I made it… from the heart, no trickery. That is so cool and rare and all the marketeers in the world together can’t manufacture that. I am very grateful to you.
The making of this record was purposely undocumented, but there are a few iPhone videos and some photos to share. I figure I’ll do that here, and more often than I usually have in the past. Even if this album slides off the charts in a month, it doesn’t make it any less special to me, and we should all be digging this music together, like we would have (and will again) on stage.
Stay tuned…
with thanks and love
John
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The Striped Potatoes
well
Burgundy Pizza.
uhmkay
“Denim Tarts”…you know, that could work!
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Stunning…Shadow Days music video - directed by Philip Andelman
Dean-o and Gino!
From @GinoGraul!
Scottish thoughts…
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That awkward moment when you wish you were a microphone…
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Hard Times, Let Him Be: HELLO
Today we registered an account on tumblr primarily to thank the John Mayer fans who have donated to NCIRE in the wake of the cancellation of the Born and Raised Tour. We’re honored and grateful.
We’ll post more about our projects later if this tumblr blog gets going, but as a…
Maybe in a near future I am going to have a lot of time on my hands and I will start a side tumblelog where I can post about all the mundane (female) bullshit I always wonder if other women ponder about too.
“We are gonna rule the school”
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I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. I’m a fucking fantastic lover. - Benedict Cumberbatch.
Oh my
