约翰·迈耶在康涅狄格州长大,从小听电台的流行音乐。13岁时邻居送给他一盘史蒂维·雷·沃恩的录音带,他第一次接触到布鲁斯音乐。自此迈耶开始学习弹吉他,不出两年,他就在当地布鲁斯 John Meyer grew up in Connecticut and listened to pop music from childhood. At the age of 13 the neighbor gave him a tape of Stevie Ray Vaughan, who had first come into contact with blues music. Since then Meyer started to learn to play the guitar. Within two years, he was in the local Bruce.