Complete List Of John Mayer Songs From A to Z

Before the major label albums and Grammy nights, John Mayer was a Connecticut teenager who got consumed by the guitar after seeing Michael J. Fox play in Back to the Future. He grew up in Fairfield, attended Fairfield Warde High School, and started playing at local venues while still in school, including as a member of a band called Villanova Junction. After enrolling at Berklee College of Music in 1997, he left after two semesters. He moved to Atlanta with guitarist Clay Cook, where they formed a short-lived duo called LoFi Masters and played coffee houses and clubs such as Eddie’s Attic before splitting due to musical differences and Mayer committing to a solo path.

That solo path took shape quickly once he began recording and circulating his own material. Working with local producer and engineer Glenn Matullo, he made the independent EP Inside Wants Out in 1999, with Mayer handling lead vocals and guitars, and the track “Back To You” using a full band that included bassist David “DeLa” LaBruyere. He performed at South by Southwest in 2000, which led to a deal with Aware Records, a Columbia Records imprint, and that partnership became the bridge from an early grassroots following to a national release plan. By 2001, Room for Squares was remixed and re-released by Columbia, expanding his audience and putting songs like “No Such Thing” into heavy rotation.

From there, the commercial rise was tied to albums that moved in large numbers and singles that crossed formats. Room for Squares produced “Your Body Is a Wonderland,” and that song won the Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, while Heavier Things followed in 2003 and reached number one on the Billboard 200. In the middle of that early success, he kept writing and touring at a pace that reinforced his identity as a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, not only a radio voice. The awards and chart results on the page show how quickly he went from a club musician with an EP to a mainstream figure with a number one album and a major Grammy.

By 2005, his catalog began to show a deliberate widening of sound, built around blues and rock alongside the pop writing that first broke through. He formed the John Mayer Trio, released the live album Try! in 2005, and then put out Continuum in 2006, a record that earned an Album of the Year nomination and won Best Pop Vocal Album at the Grammys. “Waiting on the World to Change” won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and “Gravity” later won Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance, giving him major awards recognition both for vocal performance and for guitar-centered work. He also recorded “Route 66” for Pixar’s Cars, which received a Grammy nomination, and he appeared on television series such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, performing “Waiting on the World to Change” and “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room.”

His discography on the page lists eight studio albums, Room for Squares, Heavier Things, Continuum, Battle Studies, Born and Raised, Paradise Valley, The Search for Everything, and Sob Rock, along with live albums including Any Given Thursday, As/Is, Try!, and Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live in Los Angeles. The career narrative also reflects a period of public controversy and a withdrawal from public life in 2010, followed by health issues when a granuloma on his vocal cords delayed Born and Raised until 2012 and forced tour cancellations, before he recovered in 2013 and released Paradise Valley that same year.

Beyond his own records, the page credits him with producing and providing music for artists that include Frank Ocean, Kanye West, Travis Scott, Alicia Keys, Jack Harlow, Ed Sheeran, Shawn Mendes, Harry Styles, Daniel Caesar, Khalid, Jhené Aiko, and Barbra Streisand. In 2015, he joined three former Grateful Dead members and other musicians to form Dead & Company, which became a major ongoing part of his public musical identity.

The awards section lays out why his name remains anchored in the modern pop and rock conversation, and does so in numbers and categories rather than mythology. The page states that he has won seven Grammy Awards from nineteen nominations, including wins for “Your Body Is a Wonderland,” “Daughters,” Continuum, “Waiting on the World to Change,” “Say,” and “Gravity,” with Continuum also nominated for Album of the Year. It also lists honors and nominations across MTV Video Music Awards, the Orville H. Gibson Guitar Awards, ASCAP awards for most performed songs, and concert industry recognition, which matches the way his career has functioned as both a singles driven story and a touring story.

Outside the records, the page gives specific projects and organizations rather than vague charity language. In 2002, he created the “Back to You” Fund, described as a nonprofit focused on fundraising for health care, education, the arts, and talent development, including auctions of exclusive items. He participated in Live Earth in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in 2007, performed at benefits for the Elton John AIDS Foundation, and played the free Virginia Tech concert at Lane Stadium on 2007-09-06 with Dave Matthews Band, Phil Vassar, and Nas after the Virginia Tech shooting.

That same year, he appeared with Rob Thomas at the annual holiday concert for Blythedale Children’s Hospital. In 2007, he hosted the first annual Charity Revue, noted as a tradition he continued each year. Later, he established a scholarship fund in 2017, honoring his father’s ninetieth birthday to provide four year college scholarships to Bridgeport public high school seniors pursuing education degrees, and in 2019, he established the Heart and Armor Foundation in support of veterans of war, with the page noting that he had been involved in initiatives to help returning veterans for about twelve years.