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It would be somehow that finally had a real musician the chance of a major label gets to become a star. Mayer's qualities as a guitarist are expected to by now have been widely spread, and who wants to check it, which should be even a look bit on you tube because entres numerous humorous-parodic and virtuoso live samples of the multiple Grammy and American Music Award winner for . see

That his record company now with the - highly valued among musicians - guitarist beau now wants to succeed beyond the large pond, is unmistakable in this new disk, and after be commercially today is struggling to build a guitar heroes to stardom, it tries Columbia on the ohrwurmige Schmusebär rail and the target group of James Blunt / James Morrison fans in Europe.

Basically, however yes would also not object, only sound this ballads and Heart Autschi stories vielzu often frightening inconsequential and powerless and often uninspired. In conjunction with the - naturally - smoothly polished arrangements and the high-gloss production bottom line remains only a nice dahinplätscherndes album that just as suitable as background music, to really conscious listening but that is almost always too boring. True, expressed despair or anrührige melancholy, come here never expressed.

All this would be forgivable if the songs were at least real Ohrwurmqaulitäten, but only the closer, Friends, Lovers & Nothing 'can thus come up, otherwise Mayer sounds here at its best when it can, at least initially pay a certain rock and blues Feeling like in, Assassins 'or the well-known Robert Johnson standard, Crossroads', which is presented here in a slightly funky version.

Too bad, because the man had potential, but in my opinion this album is angering the sworn Mayer fans and more to the broad audience of mainstream radio to convince listeners, the songs have simply too little hit potential.

Just 3 stars, because of its now and then by shimmering brilliance. Maybe next time John?