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John Mayer  –  Continuum

Columbia / Aware Records / VMP Essentials  – E091

2 x  Vinyl,  LP, Album, Reissue, Turquoise

US, 2022

Vinyl: NM

Sleeve: NM

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Continuum  is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter  John Mayer, released on September 12, 2006, by  Aware  and  Columbia Records. Recording sessions took place from January 2005 to July 2006 at  The Village Recorder  in Los Angeles, Avatar Studios and Right Track/Sound on Sound in New York City, and Royal Studios in  Memphis, Tennessee. Produced by singer and drummer  Steve Jordan, it marked a change in Mayer's musical style, incorporating elements of  blues  and  soul  more heavily than in his previous work with  pop rock. Bassist  Pino Palladino  also performs on the album; Mayer, Jordan, and Palladino had toured the previous year under the name  John Mayer Trio  and had released a live album,  Try!. Studio versions of two of the songs from that album appear on  Continuum. The album debuted at number 2 on the US  Billboard  200, selling more than 300,186 copies in its first week of sales. It also reached the top-10 of several other countries and sold over 5 million copies worldwide. Upon its release,  Continuum  received generally positive reviews from critics, and earned Mayer several accolades, including a  Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album  and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the  49th Grammy Awards.  Rolling Stone  named it the 11th best album of 2006; in 2020, they ranked it number 486 on its 2020 updated list of the  500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

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John Clayton Mayer is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.  He attended  Berklee College of Music  in  Boston, but he left for  Atlanta  in 1997 with fellow guitarist  Clay Cook, with whom he formed the short-lived rock duo, Lo-Fi Masters. After their split, Mayer continued to play at local clubs, refining his skills and gaining a minor following. He performed at the 2000  South by Southwest  festival, and was subsequently signed by  Aware Records, an imprint of  Columbia Records  through which he released his debut  extended play  (EP),  Inside Wants Out  (1999). His first two studio albums—Room for Squares  (2001) and  Heavier Things  (2003)—were both met with critical and commercial success; the former spawned the single "Your Body Is a Wonderland", which won  Best Male Pop Vocal Performance  at the  45th Annual Grammy Awards, while the latter peaked atop the  Billboard  200. 

By 2005, Mayer had moved away from the acoustic music that characterized his early records, and further delved into the  blues  and rock music which had originally influenced him. Forming the  John Mayer Trio, he released the live album,  Try!  (2005) and his third studio album,  Continuum  (2006). Both were met with positive critical reception, while the latter was nominated for  Album of the Year, and won both  Best Pop Vocal Album  and  Best Male Pop Vocal Performance  for its single, "Waiting on the World to Change" at the  49th Annual Grammy Awards. It was followed by  Battle Studies  (2009), which marked his return to  pop. After having several controversial incidents with the media, Mayer withdrew from public life in 2010 and drew inspiration from the 1970s pop music of  Laurel Canyon  for the sound of his fifth studio album,  Born and Raised  (2012). Discovery of a  granuloma  on his vocal cords delayed the release of the album until May 2012, and forced him to cancel its accompanying tour. Despite favorable reception and becoming his second release to peak atop the  Billboard  200, the album was less commercially successful than his previous work. Mayer recovered in January 2013 and released his sixth studio album,  Paradise Valley  in August of that year, which peaked at number two on the chart and incorporated  country,  folk, and  Americana  influences. His seventh album,  The Search for Everything  (2017) was a loose  concept  based around themes of a romantic break-up. His eighth,  Sob Rock  (2021) was inspired by 1980s  soft rock  music.

In 2015, three former members of the  Grateful Dead  joined with Mayer and two other musicians to form the band  Dead & Company. It was the latest of several  reunions  of the band's surviving members since  Jerry Garcia's death in 1995.  Mayer's secondary career pursuits extend to television hosting, comedy, and writing; he has authored columns for magazines such as  Esquire. He supports various causes and has performed at charity benefits. He is a watch aficionado (with a collection he values in the "tens of millions" of dollars), contributing to the watch site  Hodinkee, has been on the jury at the  Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève, and was appointed as the Creative Conduit of  Audemars Piguet  in 2024.  By 2014, he had sold a total of over 20 million albums worldwide.