John Mayer

John Mayer fans should check out this early E.P. to hear what the singer-songwriter sounds like without a powerhouse producer behind him. Four of these songs turn up in more polished form on Mayer's breakthrough, but these charming versions ooze warmth and intimacy -- almost like he's singing them in your ear!

Compared to John Mayer's Room for Squares, his debut, Inside Wants Out, originally
self-released in 1999, sounds like an unplugged record. It contains three songs that Mayer
later reworked for Squares -- "No Such Thing," "My Stupid Mouth" and "Neon" -- all done
here at a gentler tempo, with no instrumentation beyond his acoustic guitar. Mayer's gift
for melody was already in full effect on this record; without the flourishes of ma... More >