John Mayer on stage in Bozeman
Courtesy John Mayer
Forced to be all but silent for 10 months as he recovered from a second bout of vocal-cord problems, John Mayer returned to the stage Wednesday, performing "Speak for Me" at a benefit concert in Montana.
"And we're back," read a post on his Twitter page, along with a photo of Mayer singing in Bozeman.
He may be back, but he's far from 100 percent.
"I don't have a ton of range ... I'm a 70-year-old version of myself," Mayer said – as quoted on Twitter by Anthony Mason, co-host of CBS This Morning: Saturday, which will air a story Feb. 10 about Mayer's 10 months of vocal therapy.
"It's like a painter with just reds and purples," Mayer says of his range.
A full recovery will still take months.
Mayer, 35, has twice battled a granuloma in his throat. The problem, for which he had surgery in 2011, returned last March, necessitating a second round under the knife last October.
"They cut this thing out, then they inject your vocal cords with Botox, which freezes [them] so [they] can heal without smacking up against the other side," he said of the surgery.
Mayer, who has been dating pop star Katy Perry, has a home in Montana.
He organized Wednesday's benefit to help firefighters who battled last summer's Pine Creek Fire, which destroyed more than 8,500 acres of forest and farmland near Bozeman.
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