One day in late March, John Mayer went online and posted a preview of some new music. The eight-bar fragment, which spotlighted a buoyant electric-guitar-and-keyboard figure laid over a clean and unfussy backbeat, was suitably Mayer-esque. The forum in which he chose to reveal it—TikTok—was not.
Over two months, he’s accumulated more than a million followers. The new music that he teased on TikTok back in March will now be out as a single, “Last Train Home,” on June 4. It will be followed, on July 16, by the companion album, “Sob Rock,” his first in four years and eighth overall. There’s a distinct 1980s soft-rock vibe lurking within its melodies and grooves. “I asked myself, ‘What music makes me feel like everything’s going to be OK?’ ” Mr. Mayer says. “And it’s the music I listened to growing up in the ‘80s. There’s a security-blanket aspect about that sound that reminds me of a safer time.”
Aside from a solo career that’s led to multiple Platinum-certified albums and singles, seven Grammys and his own PRS signature guitar model, Mr. Mayer is a first-call collaborator when newer artists ranging from Leon Bridges to Khalid to Maren Morris are looking to add a certain something—usually a subtly bluesy and highly melodic guitar accompaniment—to a track. With Dead & Company, he’s a pivotal member, but also the youngest participant by some years.
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