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The Search for Everything (2017)

Where the lyrics of The Search for Everything take you, and where it was really made.

The album reached listeners in four-song parts: two EPs came out first, and the lead single appeared months before the full record.

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First release since the 2013 album Paradise Valley, after a four-year hiatus
Mayer toured with Dead & Company during 2015 and 2016
In a January 2017 Facebook post, Mayer said the album would come out four songs at a time
The Search for Everything: Wave One released January 20, 2017
The Search for Everything: Wave Two released February 24, 2017
Second single "Still Feel Like Your Man" released February 24, 2017
"In the Blood" released as a single May 1, 2017

Produced by John Mayer, with Steve Jordan as executive producer and Chad Franscoviak as producer and engineer
Mixing by Chris Galland and Manny Marroquin; mastering by Greg Calbi
Pino Palladino plays bass on most tracks, Davide Rossi arranged strings, and Larry Goldings played keyboards
Sheryl Crow sings vocals on track 5, "In the Blood"

1	Still Feel Like Your Man	3:55
2	Emoji of a Wave	4:00
3	Helpless	4:09
4	Love on the Weekend	3:32
5	In the Blood	4:05
6	Changing	3:33
7	Theme From “The Search for Everything”	1:54
8	Moving on and Getting Over	4:25
9	Never on the Day You Leave	3:44
10	Rosie	4:03
11	Roll It on Home	3:24
12	You’re Gonna Live Forever in Me	3:10

John Clayton Mayer, born October 16, 1977, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
Attended Berklee College of Music in 1997, then left for Atlanta with guitarist Clay Cook to form the short-lived duo Lo-Fi Masters.
Released the independent EP Inside Wants Out (1999) and was later signed by Aware Records, a Columbia Records imprint.

Debut album Room for Squares (2001) produced hits including "Your Body Is a Wonderland", which won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 45th Grammy Awards.
Heavier Things (2003) peaked atop the Billboard 200.
Shifted toward blues and rock, forming the John Mayer Trio; Continuum (2006) won Best Pop Vocal Album at the 49th Grammy Awards.
Withdrew from public life in 2010 after controversial interviews; later albums include Born and Raised (2012), Paradise Valley (2013), The Search for Everything (2017), and Sob Rock (2021).
Member of Dead & Company since 2015 alongside surviving Grateful Dead members.
Ranked number 61 on Rolling Stone's 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time (2023).
Sold over 20 million albums worldwide by 2014.

Metacritic gives the album an average score of 61 based on 4 reviews, which indicates generally favorable reviews
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave it 4.5 out of five stars, describing the record as smooth and alluring despite its breakup theme
Jim Farber of Entertainment Weekly gave it a B+ and called it the most deeply personal album Mayer has ever released
Robert Christgau gave it a two-star honorable mention, highlighting "Love on the Weekend" and "Never on the Day You Leave"
Alex McLevy of The A.V. Club gave the album a D
Katherine St. Asaph of Pitchfork gave it 4.9 out of 10 and called the album pleasantly bland

Debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 with 132,000 album-equivalent units, 120,000 of them pure album sales
Mayer's ninth top 10 album on the Billboard 200
Debuted at number one on the Billboard Top Rock Albums chart
Mayer's third number one on that chart in 2017, after the two EPs Wave One and Wave Two

Lead single "Love on the Weekend" came out on November 17, 2016, before the EPs and the album.
The album was released in two EP waves of four songs each, on January 20 and February 24, 2017.
"Still Feel Like Your Man" was reportedly inspired by Mayer's on-off relationship with Katy Perry from 2013 to 2015.
The album's track list was posted on social networks on March 13, 2017.
Sheryl Crow appears courtesy of Warner Bros. Records, according to the Discogs release notes.
Mayer announced in early 2019 that he will be taking The Search for Everything on tour again, with seven Asian, nine European and 32 US dates.