{"id":806268,"date":"2020-04-10T09:12:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T15:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=981665"},"modified":"2020-04-10T09:12:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T15:12:43","slug":"leon-bridges-recruits-john-mayer-for-new-song-inside-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/leon-bridges-recruits-john-mayer-for-new-song-inside-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon Bridges Recruits John Mayer for New Song \u2018Inside Friend\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/JMLB.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/leon-bridges\/\" id=\"auto-tag_leon-bridges\" data-tag=\"leon-bridges\">Leon Bridges<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/john-mayer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-mayer\" data-tag=\"john-mayer\">John Mayer<\/a> have teamed for a new one-off single, the laidback soul track \u201cInside Friend.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Despite its quarantine-like song title, \u201cInside Friend\u201d was recorded in 2019 during an impromptu jam session between Bridges and Mayer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe concept for \u2018Inside Friend\u2019 came about from Mayer and I joking around in the studio about what an ideal date for an introvert or homebody like myself would be. I tour most of the year, so I\u2019d rather invite a gal over to lounge comfortably in the crib as opposed to go out somewhere crowded,\u201d Bridges said in a statement. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201c\u2018Inside Friend\u2019 stayed on the backburner for a while because it didn\u2019t fit within the context of my third project, but the current state we\u2019re in globally compelled us to dig this back up and finish it. I hope people find it soothing and uplifting while we hole up indoors and get through this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Both singers trade verses on \u201cInside Friend,\u201d with Mayer punctuating the track with a searing guitar solo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cInside Friend\u201d follows Bridges\u2019 recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/khruangbin-leon-bridges-texas-sun-video-958803\/\"><em>Texas Sun<\/em> EP collaboration<\/a> with Khruangbin, while Mayer has \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dead-and-company-summer-tour-948643\/\">at the moment<\/a> \u2014 summer tour dates with Dead &amp; Company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/leon-bridges-john-mayer-inside-friend-981665\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leon Bridges and John Mayer have teamed for a new one-off single, the laidback soul track \u201cInside Friend.\u201d Despite its quarantine-like song title, \u201cInside Friend\u201d was recorded in 2019 during an impromptu jam session between Bridges and Mayer. \u201cThe concept for \u2018Inside Friend\u2019 came about from Mayer and I joking around in the studio about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 09:41:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}