John Mayer Calls Playing With Zach Bryan “A Real Honor,” Praises Country Music Star’s Record-Breaking Concert

John Mayer letting the world know that he was grateful to play a part in Zach Bryan’s record-breaking show at Michigan Stadium.

This past weekend was Bryan’s highly anticipated “Big House” show, and boy did it deliver. The country music star – along with John Mayer, Ryan Bingham and the Texas Gentlemen and Joshua Slone – set a new record for largest ticketed concert attendance in U.S. history. There were 112,000 fans in the stands of the University of Michigan’s Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, which in case you didn’t know, is the largest stadium in America (and third largest in the world).

Zach Bryan sold out the stadium in a matter of hours when the show was announced.

It was a legitimate, record-setting performance, and a momentous occasion for Zach Bryan in his career, and an artist that Zach brought along for the show – John Mayer – was very appreciative that the “Pink Skies” singer gave him the opportunity to be a part of it.

Mayer took to his social media a couple of days after the show and celebrated the event, gave praise to what Bryan has been able to accomplish in his young career, and called sharing the stage with him for the record-breaking concert an honor:

“This weekend, I took part in the largest ticketed event in U.S. concert history, thanks to Zach Bryan. He set a new attendance record at Ann Arbor’s Michigan Stadium. What he’s accomplished is truly phenomenal, and to share the bill with him was a real honor.”

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Pretty high praise from the great John Mayer.

Zach even took time to reply in the comments, saying:

“Couldn’t have done it without you John! We love ya!”

The “Waiting On The World To Change” singer obviously played an opening set for Bryan, but the two artists did share the stage during Zach’s headlining set, and even tried out a Grateful Dead cover: “Friend of the Devil.” Mayer, who still plays with Dead & Company (a still-existing iteration of the Grateful Dead), was comfortable handling the cover.

Bryan, on the other hand, struggled to nail the 1970 song, as you can see in the post below:

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All in all, it was a night to remember for both Zach Bryan and John Mayer. And it’s been cool to see the 46-year-old artist become a bit of a mentor and colleague of the country music superstar. You can tell there’s a lot of respect between John and Zach, and the social media post about the Michigan show wasn’t the first time Mayer has shared kind words about Zach Bryan.

During Bryan’s Quittin’ Time Tour, Mayer joined him on stage at the country artist’s Los Angeles show, and afterwards, John was simply blown away by the experience and the connection to the fans that Zach boasts:

“It was one of the most incredible things I’ve seen in years. This guy and his band have the greatest camaraderie offstage, and therefore on stage. The crowd goes nuts. I’ve never seen a band change the space around them in an arena. An arena is sorta like, ‘Here, you’re using our room, do your thing in our room.’

Zach Bryan and his band are like, ‘We’re gonna take your room and we’re gonna have a hoedown in it, thank you very much.’ He’s cracked some code that I have been waiting for someone to crack. He’s tapped into a thing with people that should give everyone hope.”

And it certainly seems like John Mayer has tried to tap into some of that hope himself, since he’s played with Zach Bryan multiple times since then, and even collaborated on a song with the “Something in the Orange” singer on his 2024 Great American Bar Scene album.

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