“Gravity” by John Mayer

At the slow, smoldering center of John Mayer's 2006 album Continuum sits "Gravity", a song that had already been road-tested: it first surfaced on Try!, the 2005 live record by the John Mayer Trio, and it and "Vultures" were the only two songs from that set to make the jump to the studio album. Mayer wrote it and produced it with Steve Jordan, who plays drums, with Pino Palladino on bass, Larry Goldings on organ and keys, and Alicia Keys slipping in on backing vocals at the close.

Mayer has called it the song he'd been chasing all along, pointing to "Come Back to Bed" from Heavier Things as an earlier stab at it. It's the sound of a pop star slowing all the way down and letting every note sting, and it went out as Continuum's third single in 2007.

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