{"id":4076,"date":"2012-08-07T16:46:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T21:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=4076"},"modified":"2012-08-07T16:46:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T21:46:25","slug":"john-mayer-plays-with-some-of-the-best-blues-guitarists-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/john-mayer-plays-with-some-of-the-best-blues-guitarists-around\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mayer Plays With Some Of The Best Blues Guitarists Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4077\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4077\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/john-mayer-plays-with-some-of-the-best-blues-guitarists-around\/john_mayer_at_the_mile_high_music_festival_2008-07-20\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4077\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4077\" title=\"John_Mayer_at_the_Mile_High_Music_Festival_(2008-07-20)\" src=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/John_Mayer_at_the_Mile_High_Music_Festival_2008-07-20-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Mayer has proved to be a successful guitarist in the blues, rock and pop genres of music. Photo courtesy of WIkipedia.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>John Mayer has made a successful career for himself as a guitarist in multiple styles of music.\u00a0 Mayer has become an established name as a blues guitarist and has had even more success as a player in the pop world.\u00a0 Regardless of the style of music, Mayer has developed his own style of playing that can transcend the style of music and is recognizable as a style unique to John Mayer.\u00a0 I found three videos that feature John Mayer playing the blues with two of the best blues guitarists in the business, B.B. King and Buddy Guy.\u00a0 Plus there&#8217;s a video from Mayer&#8217;s blues trio that is sure to please as well.\u00a0 I hope you enjoy these videos as much as I did!<\/p>\n<p>Might as well start out with the king of the blues, B.B. King.\u00a0 Mayer and King performed together at the Guitar Center King of the Blues competition, performing the classic blues song, &#8220;Sweet Little Angel.&#8221;\u00a0 Check it out here at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jv6J2aQo2rk\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jv6J2aQo2rk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/Jv6J2aQo2rk&#8221; height=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Next, John Mayer performs with another one of the great blues guitarists, Buddy Guy.\u00a0 Mayer and Guy put on a killer performance at one of Mayer&#8217;s shows in which Mayer plays a pretty killer guitar solo.\u00a0 Check it out at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hF2HAHaATs0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hF2HAHaATs0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/hF2HAHaATs0&#8243; height=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lastly, the John Mayer Trio plays some raw blues in this last video.\u00a0 I get a kick out of how powerful this trio sounds together when they play the blues.\u00a0 See what I&#8217;m talking about at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bWv3cZOBgpM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bWv3cZOBgpM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/bWv3cZOBgpM&#8221; height=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>John Mayer has made quite an impact on the blues guitar world, in addition to his music in the pop and rock worlds.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s pretty cool how John Mayer has been successful in multiple genres of music and established his own unique style of guitar playing.\u00a0 I hope you enjoyed the videos as much as I did!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Griff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mayer has made a successful career for himself as a guitarist in multiple styles of music.\u00a0 Mayer has become an established name as a blues guitarist and has had even more success as a player in the pop world.\u00a0 Regardless of the style of music, Mayer has developed his own style of playing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}