The February 2010 issue of Guitar World magazine is a blues-oriented issue and features John Mayer on the cover. On the bonus disc that comes with the magazine, John Mayer gives a lesson on how he plays his cover of “Crossroads” on his latest album Battle Studies.
The intro to the lesson is hilarious, and the lesson itself covers how he plays the entire song, including what pedal he uses to get the dead-battery fuzz tone on the album:
I heard that John Mayer doesn’t actually write any of his own music. Do you think that there’s any truth in that?
If I may believe Wikipedia he has written any song except Crossroads on his latest album.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Studies_(album)
Absolutely not. He made his big break as a singer songwriter and he is a brilliant one at that. Could you have perhaps confused his name with maybe miley cirus or the jonas Brothers?
i believe you may be misinterpreting a sarcastic remark he made once, that Richard Marx wrote all of his music. Trust me, he not only writes the songs, but he IS the songs. Truly a great musician… not my favorite moral role model, but then again, he never asked us to buy his biography, just his music.