John Mayer has canceled his upcoming tour, which was set to launch in Bloomington, Indiana, on April 9, 2012, due to the return of a serious throat condition called granuloma.
Mayer, who previously cancelled tour dates when he was first diagnosed with the condition last September, broke the news to his fans on his blog, saying, “I have no idea how to introduce this post, so I’m skipping the first paragraph.”
The 34-year-old musician says he was rehearsing for the tour on Tuesday and “something didn’t feel/sound right.”
He went to the doctor on Wednesday where it was discovered that the granuloma had grown back. “This is bad news,” he wrote. “Because of this, I have no choice but to take an indefinite break from live performing. Though there will be a day when all of this will be behind me, it will sideline me for a longer period of time than I care to have you count down.”
“I want to explain this a bit more in depth than I have in the past, because I know there’s some confusion as to what this condition is,” he wrote. “A granuloma forms and continues to snowball because it’s in a spot where the vocal cords hit together and there’s no way to really give it a chance to heal without a good stretch of time and some pretty intensive treatment. In short, it’s one giant pain in the ass.”
Mayer says his album, Born and Raised, is still slated to be released May 22, and he plans to begin writing the next album very soon. And as far as touring again, he says, “Somewhere in all of this is another surgery and a very long chemically-imposed period of silence, so I hope you’ll understand that I have to really pick that date carefully.”
“I’m pretty emotionally burnt out at the moment, but please know how hard I tried to resolve this and how disappointed I am that I can’t perform this record yet. I’m completely bummed, especially for all of you who started making plans to see a show. Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing,” he wrote. “I love this band you were going to hear, I love the guys and girls I work with, and the only thing that stops me from devolving into a puddle of tears is knowing that it’s a long life, and the greatest gift in the world is being able to create music no matter what the circumstances. So these are the new circumstances, and I’ll find a way to make it mean something. That’s all you can ever do.”
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