Maybe your walmart was just sold out. I was at Target today and saw it in the 'best seller" section. There were just two copies, and only one more in the regular JM section, so it must be doing well! This album will always remind me of Thanksgiving because I listened to it so much this week! The kids are completely sick of it...good thing they go back to school tomorrow so I can play it loud again :lol:

Well i think is doing great. Yesterday was at the Itunes Store page as first place.

it's possible it was sold out. I'll have to keep looking

down to no. 2 on itunes (rent soundtrack is no. 1 now) .. but i got to see the pretty promo ad on the top right so not a total loss :)

A review of Try posted by someone at MSM: John Mayer Trio - Try! Live in Concert Category: Album Reviews By Mark Runyon | November 29, 2005 | 12:30 AM | Email to a friend Grade: A- | Genre: Blues/Soul/Rock Summary: While Try! isn't the perfect disk, it is one juiced with daring, and flings open the doors of possibility for John and his fellow troubadours. Its really nice to see a talented musician reach the point where he can bust out of the chains of the music machine and become what he was truly meant to be. It's not easy to give your carefully buffed, Grammy winning, multi-platinum image the finger to begin charting a new destination. That is effectively what John Mayer has done in forming the John Mayer Trio. He's letting his inner soul brother hog the mic. He's feelin' the blues right through to the tips of his hair. Anyone who has seen him flow in concert saw this one coming a mile away. There are those defining moments where he'll just trails off in a song like "Neon" and, with the audience about to rip the roof off the auditorium, he shares this quiet space with his guitar where everything else is simply the static of life. That's John at his purest and for the first time, with Try!, I think we are afforded an unfiltered look into the musician's soul. It's not the slick pop tart Mayer we've come to know, but the man at his most honest. I think John is following a similar career projectory as George Michael. Like Michael, Mayer happily downplayed his more raw sound, that slips through in his live act and in his pre-explosion disk Inside Wants Out, to cultivate radio crack-laced hooks to be lapped up by the masses. Sooner or later, the artist starts to grow restless, being lumped in with the boy bands and suffering that massive sugar high packaged in these tunes. Next thing you know, George Michael is having sensuous supermodels singing "Freedom," serving as an emancipation of the musician from the image. That song for John is the deep-fried single "Who Did You Think I Was." It still has the finely textured hook, but it's grittier and releases itself to the freedom in the groove. John's mojo is staying out late and partying like it was 1999 while the teenie bopper heartthrob is at home suffering from writer's block. It's a great song to introduce us to the man we thought we knew so well. John doesn't mess around when scouring the earth for grade 'A' talent, supporting his quest to be Eric Clapton. Now we're not talking about sissy "Tears in Heaven" Clapton, but stealing George Harrison's woman, 70s Derek and the Dominos Clapton. Unlike Ben Folds Five, the name does denote that there are three musicians freeing these notes from their funk cocoons. Steve Jordan slaps the drums like they were his unruly bitches while Pino Paladino whipsaws the bass until its begging in submission. The new band fits John like a sharply tailored suit. The man has been collaborating with everyone from Kanye West to Herbie Hancock since recording Heavier Things so its little wonder that he's looking for company when taking his next musical leaps. "Wait for Tomorrow" sounds like a 70s southern rock anthem, dying to grow up to be a classic rock staple. While it comes with a tank full of energy thirsty to drive, it never quite lives up to its promise. Tracks like this define the raw sound Mayer packs into Try! They seem almost an experiment, the release of a musician shaking out the ache of his quarter-life crisis and shutting the doors of his high school only to hurdle into his life, free of a safety net. Other tracks flat out blister the mark. The bluesy "Out of my Mind" is Mayer buried in the zone. The guitar has a voice of its own as it quivers and shakes. These are moments that make you remember why you love music so. "I've Got a Woman" sounds like the spirit of Ray Charles took up residence in him for the evening. It's got a funky swagger that really shouldn't be pulsing from a white man. Dave Chappelle might have to rethink his theory after a track like this. The closer "Try!" has a very throwback to the 50s "Shout!" quality to it. "Gravity" is the album's pinnacle. It wields that "Your Body is Still a Wonderland" romantic magic wand to make the girls instantly go rubbery in the knees. It's the wavering heartache he's spooned up a hundred times before, but when its plugged into this fuller, more complete sound, it just shines. Now if you are looking for the sweet studio polish, wait for his coming disk Continuum. Try! was recorded live in concert from two sessions at Chicago's House of Blues. This helps to capture the urgency and raw edge Mayer needs to express these songs. Gone are the sorority girls screaming hysterically like he some invading Beatle and their singing every blessed word to every song like they've got a voice. We don't have to fight that battle because all these tracks are new. During the encore, he does break out "Something's Missing" and the God awful "Daughters," but they're almost a welcome distraction to lay the pop artist side-by-side with the blues artist to show off how two-dimensional and pale these pop tunes are. Oh and no concert would be complete without the obnoxious person yelling out "Comfortable." That song is John's "Free Bird." While Try! isn't the perfect disk, it is one juiced with daring, and flings open the doors of possibility for John and his fellow troubadours. He was the man that birthed the latest invasion of the singer-songwriter, and he's sneaking out the backdoor, not content to stay planted in popdom any longer. If you prematurely wrote Mayer off as a slave to the pop melody, its time to wake up and smell the sweet aroma of this new sound. For the fans, your music collection is about to find a fresh horizon to wake up to. Release Date: November 22, 2005

Try! was recorded live in concert from two sessions at Chicago's House of Blues. Do you think the entire album is from Chicago HOB? I think we've been assuming it's from multiple shows, but the inside of the cd cover does say, "Today, the tracks from the House of Blues in Chicago are being mixed".

:shock: Comparison to George Michael? Why does that make me shudder??? Thanks for posting that, Laur...I have been waiting to read reviews!!!

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Great review, thanks for sharing, Lauri! I'm loving Try! more and more :) Yeah, Trace, that George Michael comparison is kinda' creepy... lol Jo

John mentioned something about that in one of the interviews lately (I believe it was the podcast for ...X radio). He said that he is a perfectionist so that he took the best recordings of the songs; from different shows than just the Chicago's ones too... The whole Chicago thing was because he also wanted to shoot the dvd there, but that didn't turn out as good as he hoped it would. So probably no dvd...

Yeah he said there isn't going to be a dvd at all from that show. He didn't like it, so he said he's not going to put it out. Which good for him, if he's not happy with something don't put it out. I'm honestly not torn up over it, its his choice, gotta respect that!

I thought the writer was probably just confusing the cd with the dvd...and now I do remember John saying in an interview about taking the best songs from different shows, so that must be right.

the bar i work at had a random vinyl of Try! sittin around. i quickly had dibs on that bad boy.

A JM3 Review, I don't know if it's been posted yet, so I'll post it anyway. Gave them 4 out of 5 stars TRY! Mayer releases second live disc By MARK DANIELL -- For JAM! Music -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Mayer Trio Try! (Sony-BMG) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Mayer's got it tough. He's penned popular, Grammy-winning songs and has his mug plastered on dorm room walls across the country. But unlike other Top 40 songsmiths, Mayer has sought out serious musical credibility; quietly ensconcing himself with some of music's legends (he has recorded with B.B. King and Herbie Hancock, among others) in the hopes that he can prove himself worthy to the heir-to-Stevie-Ray-Vaughan title that was thrown at him early in his career. So just how does college pop's saviour show listeners he's a true musical genius, with razzle-dazzle licks not to be messed with? In Mayer's case, he cuts the fat. Eschewing the horn and keyboard sections, which dot his solo material, the singer-songwriter tapped veteran session players - drummer Steve Jordan and Who bassist Pino Palladino - and launched a fall tour under the moniker: John Mayer Trio. Cynics might see this as Mayer's grab to be taken seriously by music snobs (who've so far dismissed MuchMoreMusic-friendly ditties like "Your Body is a Wonderland"), and they'd be partially right. The recently released "Try!" (recorded at Chicago's House of Blues last September) shows Mayer flexing his guitar might on his cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Wait Until Tomorrow," and reinterpreting his own pop-styled "Something's Missing" (from 2003's "Heavier Things") with downtempo catchiness. But the songs on this record show Mayer can easily pen sturdy guitar-driven numbers, and serve as a constant reminder that he's the future of pop blues. Opening with the Hendrix-meets-Stevie-Ray-Vaughan sounding "Who Do You Think I Was," the live set captures the threesome ripping through 11 songs of mostly originals. "Good Love Is On The Way" lets Mayer try his hand at barroom blues ("You can have all the things up my sleeve/ I don't need them anymore," he sings over a soaring guitar track). "Gravity" is a soulful ballad, while "Another Kind Of Green" recreates the acoustic flare of Mayer's "3X5" in an electric setting. He sounds positively Stevie Ray-like, mixing the late singer's gritty yodel with his own piercing guitar melody on "Out Of My Mind." And showing he knows how to funk with the best, Mayer knocks Kanye West and Jamie Foxx on their behinds with his own sleek reading of Ray Charles's "I Got a Woman." For those who like hearing Mayer's gravely voice an octave higher, your ears will perk up during the percussive "Vultures." But the album's standout tracks are left for the end. First, he mounts a bluesy reinterpretation of his pop ballad "Daughters." Then there's the fast moving title track, which builds a slinky guitar shuffle into one of Mayer's most distinguished solos. Hardcore fans of his blues-lite studio work might not fully get it, but they can rest easy. Mayer's next studio album - "Continuum" - is due in stores early next year. Originally found here http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/M/Mayer_John/AlbumReviews/2005/12/01/1332615-ca.html