The Village Sessions

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The Village Sessions

The Village Sessions
EP by John Mayer
Released	December 12, 2006
Recorded	Late 2004 - Early 2005 The Village Recorder Los Angeles, California^{^[1]}
Genre	Blues Rock See Also: Blues & Rock
Label	Aware Records Columbia Records Sony Music
Producer(s)	John Mayer Chad Franscoviak
Continuum (2006)	The Village Sessions (2006)

The Village Sessions^[2] is an EP released by blues-rock artist John Mayer on December 12, 2006. Collaborators include John Mayer Trio members Steve Jordan and Pino Palladino, along with others such as Ben Harper, Robbie McIntosh (of The Pretenders), and Ricky Peterson (of Mayer's touring band and former producer for Prince albums). The six-song EP contains acoustic and alternate versions of songs found on Mayer's third studio album, Continuum, and his Trio's live album, Try!. Mayer co-produced the album with engineer Chad Franscoviak, also his live engineer and flat mate.

Notable is that though the EP was released at about the same time as Mayer’s single “Gravity”, the song itself does not appear on this EP, much like Mayer's singles “Daughters” and “Bigger Than My Body” were not on his live album As/Is, despite being the current singles at the time of its release. Unlike the As/Is series, there are presently no announcements of the availability of The Village Sessions on iTunes.

Originally, the EP was only available at indie record stores and on the online Aware Records store in limited quantities.^[3] The album was released on December 12, 2006, and copies had sold out on the Aware Store as of December 23, 2006. However, it is now also available on Amazon.com.[1]

1 Track listing
2 References
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Track listing

Waiting on the World to Change (Ben Harper version)
Belief (Acoustic version)
Slow Dancing In A Burning Room (Acoustic version)
Good Love Is On The Way (Acoustic version)
I'm Gonna Find Another You (Acoustic version)
In Repair (Acoustic version)

[edit] References

^ MixOnline article about the album's creation

(Article cites December 27 2004 as being first Village Recorder session.)
^ The Village Sessions page at Aware Store
^ Mayer's Site's Official Announcement of The Village Sessions' release.

[edit] See also

Primary related articles:

Secondary related articles:

[edit] External links

Category John Mayer Discography v • d • e
Studio albums:	Room for Squares · Heavier Things · Continuum
EPs:	Inside Wants Out · The Village Sessions
Live albums:	Any Given Thursday · As/Is
Singles:	"No Such Thing" · "Your Body Is a Wonderland" · "Why Georgia" · "Bigger Than My Body" · "Clarity" · "Daughters" · "Waiting on the World to Change" · "Gravity"
Other songs:	"Neon" · "Something's Missing" · "Come Back To Bed"
John Mayer Trio:	Try! · "Who Did You Think I Was" · "Live at Yahoo! Music"
Affiliated people:	David LaBruyere · Clay Cook · David Ryan Harris · Pino Palladino · Steve Jordan · Chad Franscoviak