Inside Wants Out

Inside Wants Out is a self-released debut album by John Mayer, initially distributed in the Atlanta, Georgia area. It later led to his major-label record deal with Columbia Records, Room for Squares. The first four songs from this album made it to the latter. After the Room for Squares commercial re-release, Columbia re-released the EP with the omission of the second version of the song, "Neon". Despite having released several high-selling albums... more

Inside Wants Out is a self-released debut album by John Mayer, initially distributed in the Atlanta, Georgia area. It later led to his major-label record deal with Columbia Records, Room for Squares. The first four songs from this album made it to the latter. After the Room for Squares commercial re-release, Columbia re-released the EP with the omission of the second version of the song, "Neon". Despite having released several high-selling albums since Inside Wants Out, Mayer continues to play all of its songs in regular rotation in his current shows. Mayer enrolled in the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of nineteen. After two semesters, he chose to cut his studies short, and at the urging of his college friend and Atlanta native, Clay Cook, the two moved to Atlanta, Georgia. Quickly making a name for their two-man band, LoFi Masters, they began their career in earnest there, frequenting the local coffee house and club circuit in venues like Eddie’s Attic... less