[Before we get into it, can we just take it as read that most folk on here prefer Continuum/ the Trio stuff to anything else he has done and leave that there?]
Mayer's Born and Raised album turned 10 years old recently, and revisiting it reminded me of the track Walt Grace's Submarine Test 1967.
A truly unusual lyric, about a man going off in a home-made submarine, and far from the "soft rock to make pretty girls swoon" and "SRV updated for the Noughties" guitar that he is best known for...I have to confess something: This song makes me cry every time I hear it. Even thinking about it reduced me to tears today. To repeat: it's a song about a man making a submarine. This is not a field in which I have any emotional baggage to set me off! There's just something utterly human and heartbreaking about it, for me.
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I really like the *simple stuff he does, Dear Marie from Paradise Valley is another great simple song.
The ending was open ended on release but he said at a concert "he totally lives" so Walt succeeds at the end. It's good storytelling and the resonator guitar sounds spot on for the vibe it's going for.
I stopped really listening after Born & Raised.
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It's very good. I like a story in a song.
But the video - that is fantastic. Very well put together indeed.
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I'm sure he borrowed it from The Jonas Brothers though (2:12):