Cover / King of the Strings

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"They all feel great; there's no bum Grammy," he says. "These ones are the latest and the latest always feel the greatest. Aside from that, I think it's also the most committed album I've ever made, so to be recognized for an album I'm so proud of is great."

"There's a feeling of, 'Wasn't this supposed to be different?' When you're young and you open that textbook and you see at 18 you get the right to vote and everything that comes with it, then, 'Hey, wait. This is not exactly how the world is supposed to go down.'

"As artists, it's chasing that rush of the first time you get on stage," he says. "For me, that rush is the songs I'm playing the guitar over. I have to continue to be a better songwriter so I can grow as a guitar player. I'm kind of feeding two mouths: I'm trying to get the guitar playing up, but I first have to get the songwriting up. You're only as good a guitar player as you are a songwriter, and the songs are there."

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Cover / King of the Strings

BY ROB WILLIAMS

JOHN Mayer went from being a mere mortal to an entity -- a Guitar God -- in the space of a single headline on a recent cover of Rolling Stone.

"They print something in soy ink on the cover of the magazine and it becomes the truth," Mayer says sarcast...

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