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Released | December 12, 2006 | |||
Recorded | Late 2004–early 2005 | |||
Studio | The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, California [1] | |||
Genre | Acoustic | |||
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The Village Sessions is an EP released by artist John Mayer on December 12, 2006. [2] Collaborators include John Mayer Trio members Steve Jordan and Pino Palladino, along with Ben Harper, Robbie McIntosh, and Ricky Peterson of Mayer's touring band and former producer for Prince albums. The six-song EP contains acoustic and alternate versions of songs found on Mayer's third studio album, Continuum , and his trio's live album, Try! . Mayer co-produced the album with engineer Chad Franscoviak.
Though the EP was released at about the same time as Mayer’s single, "Gravity", the song itself does not appear on this EP, much like Mayer's singles "Daughters" and "Bigger Than My Body" were not on his live album, As/Is , despite being the current singles at the time of its release. Like the As/Is series before it, The Village Sessions was made available on iTunes, on May 15, 2007.
Originally, the EP was only available at indie record stores and at the online Aware Records store in limited quantities. [3] The album was released on December 12, 2006, and copies had sold out on the Aware Store as of December 23, 2006. However, it is now also available on Amazon.com. In May 2007, The Village Sessions was released on iTunes with a special video featuring the making of "In Repair" as heard on Continuum. The video shows the song being recorded within one day.
On December 6, 2007, the acoustic version of "Belief" from "The Village Sessions" was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, a category that Mayer had previously won three times.
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