John Mayer Encourages Fans To Put Music To His Lyrics

John Mayer is calling on fans to make a song out of some lyrics that didn’t make it onto his upcoming album. “I’m inviting all aspiring songwriters to write their own chords and melodies around my lyrics,” Mayer writes in the September issue of Esquire, on newsstands August 15th. “You can tell people we wrote a song together.” The best submissions will be featured on Esquire’s Web site. Mayer will pick the winner, who will receive a Fender John Mayer Signature Stratocaster guitar. Read more.