John Mayer and Bob Weir are currently in Mexico this weekend for the 2019 installment of their three-night “Playing in the Sand” destination concert event. More recently, however, the Dead & Company guitarists had apparently spent some time in the recording studio working on some mysterious projects alongside another veteran rocker, Ryan Adams.
Adams announced last week that he plans on releasing three new albums at some point in 2019, which he’d previously done back in 2005. One of those albums is expected to be titled, Big Colors, and will presumably include a pair of new singles titled “Anybody Evil”, and “Fuck The Rain”. According to some of the posts shared to Adams’ Twitter account earlier this week and again on Thursday, both Mayer and Weir will be making a musical appearance on at least one of those projects.
In a series of tweets posted by Adams early Thursday afternoon, the rock musician informed fans that Mayer provided the solo on “Fuck The Rain”, which is scheduled to arrive on all platforms this coming Wednesday, January 23rd. The confirmation on Thursday comes a day after Adams shared a trio of photographs of himself, Mayer, and Blue Note Records President/Wolf Bros bassist Don Was working together in the studio. Was also accompanied Adams on stage during his brief performance at the Chris Cornell Tribute Concert in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Adams made sure to tag Blue Note Records, along with Capitol Records, in the social posts, leading fans to assume the upcoming projects will arrive through the historic record label.
Earlier in the day on Thursday, Ryan shared a photo alongside Weir, stating the two were working on a “secret thing” at Adams’ Pax-Am Studios. Fans can check out the social posts below for more evidence
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Mayer and Adams are no strangers to performing together. Adams was on hand to sit-in during one of Mayer’s headlining solo shows at The Forum in Los Angeles in 2017.
Adams currently has no performances scheduled for the near future, but fans can tune in to Dead & Company’s Mexico performances all weekend long with webcast streams being aired all three nights.
How lucky to have such an incredible, unbelievable musician and friend & a handsome one at that to play on #BigColors He brought the heat, folks, as usual. We love ya @JohnMayer pic.twitter.com/RVtXj5FHbR
— Ryan Adams (@TheRyanAdams) January 16, 2019
#TBT w @BobWeir a few weeks ago at #PaxAm for a secret thing pic.twitter.com/3hqobmrXIC
— Ryan Adams (@TheRyanAdams) January 17, 2019
New #Bigcolors single drops Wednesday on all platforms. ( Big love to my friend @bryanadams I guess we just both want that sunshinnnneeee ) ….. wicked solo by @JohnMayer included no assembly required pic.twitter.com/G5mRgFL9Qm
— Ryan Adams (@TheRyanAdams) January 17, 2019
[H/T Relix]