Continuum
After throwing fans of his campfire serenades off guard with the jam-heavy live album *Try!*, *Continuum* confirms John Mayer’s transformation into a 21st-century soul man with serious blues-rock chops. And for Mayer, that shift means more than just casting his songs in a gospel glow, but also speaking to political unrest atop the laidback shuffle of “Waiting on the World to Change.” Ultimately, the growth Mayer exhibits here can be gauged not just by his shred-tastic cover of Hendrix’s “Bold as Love,” but by the fact he answers it with “Dreaming with a Broken Heart,” a lighter-waving anthem to call his own.
John Mayer asked on the opening track of Try!, the live album he released last year as one-third of the John Mayer Trio.
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Continuum just doesn’t convince as a heady, soulful rock album or as Mayer’s creative quantum leap forward.
John Mayer - Continuum review: Despite its lack of concept, Continuum's honest, blues-pop evaluations of truth, belief, war and love make for such a perfect and complete album from start to finish that its healing value is immense.<script src=