Photo by @daniel via @JohnMayer on IG

John Mayer’s Nashville stop on his solo tour not only treated fans to a Chris Stapleton sit-in, but a new, original duet written by the two musicians just 24 hours before.

“I’ve done a lot of cool stuff before, but nothing quite like writing a song with the great @chrisstapleton on a Wednesday and playing it live on an arena stage on a Thursday,” Mayer wrote afterwards via Instagram. “It’s called ‘I Just Remembered That I Didn’t Care,’ and it’s available now somewhere on YouTube. (And if that wasn’t enough, he sat in on “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room.”) Thanks Chris for the idea to write a song to perform together, and for being such a creative powerhouse. The afterglow is bright.”

The new tune came midway through the second half of the two-set show, which also included versions of Tom Petty’s Free Fallin’ and a David Ryan Harris-led, solo acoustic take on Prince’s “The Beautiful Ones.” (Stapleton also sat in for Mayer’s live favorite “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room.”)

Watch Stapleton and Mayer perform “I Just Remembered That I Didn’t Care” and “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room” (via YouTuber Jonathan Pierce Band) and check out the full setlist – as it appears in our Box Scores section – below:

John Mayer
Aug. 8, 2019
Bridgestone Arena, Nashville

Set I: Belief, Love on the Weekend, Who Says, Something Like Olivia, Whiskey Whiskey Whiskey, I Don’t Trust Myself (With Loving You), Waiting on the Day, Why Georgia, Changing, Edge of Desire

Set II: Emoji of a Wave^, In Your Atmosphere, Free Fallin’, Moving On and Getting Over, Helpless, Let My Love Open the Door, The Age of Worry, Stop This Train, I Just Remembered I Didn’t Care#*, The Beautiful Ones+, Slow Dancing in a Burning Room*, In the Blood, Waiting on the World to Change, Dear Marie

Enc: Gravity, New Light

Notes:
^ solo acoustic
# live debut
+ solo acoustic by David Ryan Harris 
* with Chris Stapleton