John Mayer returns to the stage in 2010 to tour to promote his fourth solo studio album Battle Studies. The new album was released on November 17, 2009 and immediately topped the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. John Mayer will began his promotional tour a week before the album's release date with concerts in Sydney and Hindmarsh in Australia. Then he took off to New York before doing a short run of shows in Great Britain. Now, he has returned to the United States and John Mayer tickets will sell until at least June 2010.
Whenever John Mayer stages a show, he always spark up the crowd with his enchanting songs and his listeners go berserk. He is a sensitive and a meticulous song-writer and singer and a accomplished guitarist.
John Mayer was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He did his schooling from Fairfield High School. He then joined Brien Mohandas High School for his junior year, where he was enrolled in the Center for Global Studies at Brien McMohan High School. It is also known as the Center for Japanese Studies Abroad. Although he listened to pop music, but when he was thirteen years old he yearned to learn playing guitar, after he was greatly influenced by Stevie Ray Vaughn, Mayer.
After listening to them, he discovered the blues and also learned to play the guitar. He continued practicing for the next two years. After that he started playing at blues bars and also other venues in the area. He was also a part of the band called Villanova Junction with Tim Procaccini, Joe Beleznay and Rich Wolf, while he was in high school.
When Mayer was suddenly struck with a cardiac arrhythmia, at the age of seventeen, he had to spent one whole week in the hospital. While he was in the hospital, he started writing songs and when he was released from the hospital, he penned his first lyrics the night he got home. When he was nineteen years old, he enrolled himself in the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Later he started playing in the local coffeehouse and club circuit, in venues like Eddie's Attic. He released his first solo album, Inside Wants Out.
He became popular and he started playing in th Atlanta circuit, and also in a number of shows, at venues like Eddie's Attic. It was in the year 2000 that proved to be a turning point in his life, he was playing at the South by Southwest Music Festival and this led to a recording contract with Aware Records, a subsidiary of Columbia. He then began recording his major-label debut, Room for Squares.