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John Mayer emerged from the underground in 2001 with his debut album, Room for Squares. He was then a little-known 22-year-old with an acoustic guitar and boundless energy. Room for Squares is now triple platinum, spawning three hit singles, one of which, "Your Body Is a Wonderland", earned Mr. Mayer a Grammy for best pop vocal performance. Mr. Mayer's Aware/Columbia follow-up album Heavier Things, produced and mixed by Jack Joseph Puig, demonstrates how far the artist has come at this still-early stage of his career. "In some ways," Mr. Mayer says, "the stakes get higher when you make a second major-label record and everyone's looking. And in some ways absolutely nothing is different, because your voice still sounds the same and your hands still feel the same on the guitar. You just write your songs. You're just a guy with a guitar putting in a Thai food order at 9 p.m." In addition to the lead single, "Bigger Than My Body", Heavier Things contains several songs Mr. Mayer performed live on his 2003 summer tour of amphitheaters and arenas. These include the poignant "Daughters", blues-based "Come Back to Bed", "Wheel", and "Something's Missing".

Jon Pareles, chief popular music critic of The New York Times, joined The Times as a music critic in August 1985, after having been a stringer since 1982. Previously, he was a music editor for Crawdaddy, an associate editor at Rolling Stone, and then a senior editor at the Village Voice. He began playing the piano at age six and the flute two years later, majored in music at Yale in 1974, wrote music criticism for the Yale Daily News and was the music director for two years at WYBC-FM radio. He performed in rock, jazz, and classical ensembles and was also a member of the Yale Guild of Carilloneurs. He is the co-editor of The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll.

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