Strangely enough, the well-groomed 'adult rock' by The Dave Matthews Band and Matchbox 20, groups that sell millions of albums in America, finds hardly any resonance in the Netherlands. An exception to that rule is John Mayer, who scored a radio hit with Daughters in 2004 in the Netherlands. Mayer has a pleasantly husky voice and a steady hand of songwriting, drawing on folk, blues and soul. An
… underexposed aspect is his pointed guitar playing, for which he extensively thanks Eric Clapton in the CD booklet. 'He knows I steal from him and is still cool with it.' With this kind of traditional roots rock, slackness is constantly lurking, but Fortunately Continuum does not suffer from that. Unexpected outings such as Bold As Love (in both text and performance an outright homage to Jimi Hendrix) and I ' m Gonna Find Another You, an old-fashioned soul grinder whose wind instruments were arranged by none other than Al Green's producer Willie Mitchell. (MS)more
