“Love Is A Verb” by John Mayer

"Love Is a Verb" comes from Born and Raised, the fifth studio album John Mayer put out on Columbia in May 2012, and it surfaced a few days before the full record did. It was another swerve for Mayer, this time toward folk and Americana, with Bob Dylan, Neil Young, David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash hovering over the whole thing like patron saints.

Mayer wrote it alone and sings lead, and he produced it with Don Was, with Chad Franscoviak engineering. When the album arrived, critics made a point of praising Was's production and Mayer's technical chops. The title reads like a bit of homespun wisdom, which suits the album's rootsy turn just fine.

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