Steve Jordan: The Man Behind Continuum
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Steve Jordan (co)produced and played drums on Continuum, the album that turned John Mayer into a guitar hero.
Steve Jordan (co)produced and played drums on Continuum, the album that turned John Mayer into a guitar hero. Twenty years later, he tells the whole story: the trio that started in a single day, the label boss who didn’t hear a hit, and the trio album that’s still in the can. And he talks about playing on 6 new John Mayer tracks for John’s upcoming album!
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Chapters
- 0:00 Cold open & intro
- 1:23 Steve Jordan joins the show
- 1:40 Meeting John Mayer
- 4:05 Stitched Up & Herbie Hancock
- 8:53 How the John Mayer Trio started
- 13:33 Try! John's stake in the ground
- 14:50 The label didn't believe in it
- 20:18 Waiting On The World To Change
- 22:40 The sound of Continuum
- 28:21 Choosing drums for every song
- 30:30 In Repair: written in one day
- 31:47 A tour booked before there were songs
- 33:23 Memphis & the Al Green mic
- 34:43 Steve's favorite Continuum track
- 35:27 How Vultures was born
- 41:23 The lost trio album
- 43:29 Jazz Foundation of America
- 53:09 New projects: The Verbs, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy
- 56:50 John's new album