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Track Listings
| 1. Who Did You Think I Was |
| 2. Good Love Is On The Way |
| 3. Wait Until Tomorrow |
| 4. Gravity |
| 5. Vultures |
| 6. Out of My Mind |
| 7. Another Kind of Green |
| 8. I Got A Woman |
| 9. Something’s Missing |
| 10. Daughters |
| 11. Try |
Product Description
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Longtime listeners have seen it coming: it was only a matter of time before John Mayer dropped the pop star pretense and proved he could really bring it. Chalk it up to one too many Dave Matthews comparisons, or the cupcake-sweet residue stuck to his image after the success of "Your Body Is a Wonderland"--but something convinced Mayer it was time to take him game to the next level. With help from studio pros Steve Jordan and Pino Palladino, he succeeds on Try. If the muscled-up covers of Jimi Hendrix's "Wait Until Tomorrow" and Ray Charles' "I Got a Woman" don't scream "no more Mr. Nice Guy" loud enough, the brawn of blues-rock opener "Who Do You Think I Was" does for sure. Mixed in with the Stevie Ray Vaughn and Eric Clapton-esque stuff are a few mellow numbers--"Daughters," most notably, returns from Heavier Things alongside "Something's Missing"--but even those songs seem hopped up on rock-God hormones. This newfound sizzle can't fix everything; that segment of the music-buying public that would accuse the singer of having a voice like "a whispering midget" (to quote a customer review of Mayer's work) won't want to add this disc to their collection. The good news for Mayer, though, is that anybody with an ear for genuine rock'n'roll chops will. --Tammy La Gorce
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The long overdue blues album from John Mayer...,
By Brendan (Kingston, Ontario) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Try! Live In Concert (Audio CD)
I have been waiting for this album for years! When I first heard John Mayer's last live album "Any Given Thursday" I had no idea that he was such a stellar blues guitar player, but I was confused as to why he would keep writing such boring acoustic pop songs. But now...it's here! Try! is a fantastic album and is a reminder of why the power trio is such a legendary setup of musicians. John Mayer has really come into his own and has developed a lead guitar sound that sounds like something between Stevie Ray Vaughn and B.B. King and a rhythym guitar that sounds like Jimi Hendrix. The song selection is quite varied and includes a good mix of covers and originals with the originals really showing off Mayer's song writing talents and the covers including Jimi Hendrix and Ray Charles. But the guitar player is only as great as the band who pushes him and what a band Mayer has. Steve Jordan and Pino Palladino are both veteran session musicians and, to put it mildly, they really know what they're doing. Steve Jordan is an incredibly funky drummer and Pino Palladino has the cool, laid back demeanor of a jazz player. With these two musicians behind Mayer, magic and inspiration are everywhere to be found. Overall, an extemely good album that reminds you of the feelings and virtuosity of the late 60's power trios. Go buy this now and get used to the new John Mayer!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
a beautiful and definitive album,
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This review is from: Try! Live In Concert (Audio CD)
This is an absolutely perfect album. It is John Mayer at his most sublime, transcendental, fully all-out self. I was blown away at hearing this live show (especially compared to what I thought of Mayer previously). It has changed the way I think of him, not to mention the way I think of current music as a whole. This has metamorphosed my entire outlook, it is safe to say, on the health and wealth of modern music and its ability to appropriately appropriate its past and reference itself to the apex of the sense experience.
If you get off on a slow, sultry, lugubrious, mysterious blues (the kind from 'Fairfield CT' he mentions on the recording) but also, in other places, a frenzied, honky tonk, faster blues, then this is for you. Why, Mr. Mayer, do you use that monotone, hypnotized voice on your mainstream singles to render it so that that's all the public knows of you, and then at your live show like this one you go and put your whole soul into it, and show your true range? In that way Mr. Mayer is like David Usher, I believe. This is an album to hear.
5.0 out of 5 stars
crank it up,
By eightyfive (earth) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Try! Live In Concert (Audio CD)
The days of saccharine love songs are over for Mayer. In his new venture Try! a live concert recording, Mayer experiments with the slowly disappearing genre of blues-rock. With veteran musicians Steve Jordan and Pino Palladino, Mayer rocks out with songs new and old, ranging from his own compositions to classic blues rock tunes. The CD opens with Who Did You Think I was, questioning the listeners' expectations of the revamped sound. The set later goes on to include an old familiar -- or is it? The Grammy-winning song Daughters is almost beyond recognition, now infused with more mature sounds. Mayer fans who were just in it for "Your Body Is a Wonderland" will probably be severely disappointed that the album does not include any of the overly sweet pop songs of yore. However, music afficionados and those looking for a change in the monotonous and uniform sounds of the recent years will be pleasantly surprised with the abrupt change of Mayer's musical direction. Get it, crank it up and Try!
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