The Dead & Co guitarist adds his signature instrumental to Bryan's “Better Days.”
John Mayer is just one of several high-profile special guests (hi Bruce) featured on Bryan's brand new album, The Great American Bar Scenebut he is the first to share widespread public praise for the 28-year-old's fifth record.
Recorded at Electric Lady in New York, Mayer added guitar to “Better Days,” one of several low-key ballads on Bryan's album, which was released earlier today.
“I always knew this song Zach wrote was special,” Mayer told X. “I had no idea how beautiful, powerful and deep an album it would be. I am dumbfounded.”
Mayer has been busy lately with Dead & Co, and in recent years, he's collaborated with many younger artists, from Maren Morris to Leon Bridges and, most recently, Bryan.
“I'm blessed to have been able to fulfill my dreams of making music,” he continued. “What I never saw coming: being asked to play with an artist as deeply accomplished” as Bryan.
Besides Springsteen, other guests The Great American Bar Scene features roots duo Watchhouse, Canadian country singer Noeline Hoffman and Oklahoma singer-songwriter John Moreland. Before Bryan's album was even released, he had already scored the second-highest pop-charting song with the folk ballad “Pink Skies,” a designation that at the time hairs last month when he wrote to X: “PINK SKIES IS NOT A POP SONG.”
The week before Brian was released The Great American Bar Sceneinvited his girl Hawk Tuah on stage at one of his stadium shows in Nashville.
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