Number Of Discs:
1

Notes:


Label:
Columbia


Selection #:
2000391

Genre:
Adult Alternative

1. Heartbreak Warfare
2. All We Ever Do Is Say Goodbye
3. Half Of My Heart
4. Who Says
5. Perfectly Lonely
6. Assassin
7. Crossroads
8. War Of My Life
9. Edge Of Desire
10. Do You Know Me
11. Friends, Lovers Or Nothing

John Mayer's Battle Studies comes three years after his critically acclaimed 2006 album, Continuum. Incorporating the warmth, melodies and simplicity of '70s and '80s California rock/pop, Battle Studies is a confessional, relaxed and liberated album recorded in a private home in California where Mayer lived and worked over the course of six months before wrapping at the famed Capitol Studios in Los Angeles. The album's first single, "Who Says" challenges conventional standards of what one can accomplish or undertake -- despite society's constraints. Battle Studies also showcases universal themes on "Heartbreak Warfare," "Assassin," and "War of My Life," with Mayer flexing his guitar chops on "Rock Song" and a reinterpretation of "Crossroads." The famously collaborative guitar player also invited one of music's brightest new talents, Taylor Swift, to appear on "Half of My Heart."