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Gavin DeGraw
Released 2009

Indian Summer
04:43
9,821 plays

Mountains To Move
05:46
9,642 plays

Waterfall
04:41
8,907 plays

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- 1
- Indian Summer
- 04:43
- 9,821 plays

- 2
- Free
- 03:56
- 11,142 plays

- 3
- Stay
- 03:33
- 15,152 plays

- 4
- Mountains To Move
- 05:46
- 9,642 plays

- 5
- Glass
- 03:53
- 11,044 plays

- 6
- Lover Be Strong
- 04:28
- 10,570 plays

- 7
- Dancing Shoes
- 03:46
- 13,421 plays

- 8
- Waterfall
- 04:41
- 8,907 plays

- 9
- Why Do The Men Stray
- 03:05
- 8,157 plays

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album review

Free follows Gavin DeGraw's eponymous second album by less than a year -- a quick turnaround by any standard, but its swiftness is shocking considering that it took him half a decade to deliver a follow-up to his 2003 debut, Chariot. Free feels as if it were recorded quickly: it weighs in at a mere nine songs, including a reworking of the previous album's "Young Love" and a cover of Chris Whitley's "Indian Summer," bringing the total of new tunes to an EP-length seven songs, every one given a treatment that's decidedly looser and smaller in scale than the slick, overworked Gavin DeGraw. Such intimacy suits DeGraw's new songs, which tend to be ruminative, but this subdued setting also shows the seams in his writing and performance, whether it's his adoption of a mush-mouthed, bluesy growl for "Indian Summer" or how he stitches together clichés and naiveté on the spartan closer, "Why Do the Men Stray." But between these two bookends is the most consistent music DeGraw has yet made -- yes, he could use at least one hook as big as "I Don't Wanna Be," but Free manages to flow easily and warmly, something that couldn't quite be said of the blue-eyed soul bluster of his first two albums. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide