The vibe was loose but the performance was tight at AAC Sunday night.
A small, laminated sign hung on the wall behind the merch table. Easy enough to miss amid the various commemorative garments for sale , the breezy note also doubled as a mission statement of sorts: “John says size up for a looser fit.”
The John in question was Mayer, who returned Sunday to headline the same spacious room he last played three years ago, a superb new album, last year’sFor two hours, he embodied the pleasures of a looser fit — the freedom of having the room to move — with nine top-tier musicians arrayed behind and beside him, working through his Day-Glo homages to yacht rock and rendering his own, extensive back catalog with the sort of skill that can leave you breathless with admiration.
Mayer and his collaborators embodied a particular irony throughout: The ensemble is locked in so tightly that its laxity almost seems rehearsed.Still, whether it was legendary piano man Greg Phillinganes dancing gleefully on stage right, or backing vocalists Carlos Ricketts and Tiffany Palmer cutting a rug with one of the camera operators, there was a palpable sense of joy emanating from the stage.
Considered as a whole, Sunday’s set list was decidedly downbeat, ranging from “I Don’t Trust Myself ” and “Who Says” to “Still Feel Like Your Man,” “If I Ever Get Around to Living” and the main set-closing “Gravity,” into all of which were tucked gorgeous guitar runs and electrifying call-and-response between Mayer, who spent much of the set clad in a black Charley’s Guitar Shop T-shirt, and his bandmates.
But reflective doesn’t necessarily have to mean dour, and that looseness — an ability to accommodate a range of moods, from melancholy to merry — has long been a Mayer hallmark. The fashion for sale in the arena’s lobby may now give everyone more room to move, but John Mayer has never embodied anything less than a relaxed fit., it has been defined as the free, independent voice of Dallas, and we'd like to keep it that way.
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