Gavin DeGraw

DeGraw's debut record shows the new school singer-songwriter has much more to offer than the theme song to WB's One Tree Hill. The main purpose of this music may be for alternative teens to have something on when they make-out with each other but there's nothing wrong with that, especially when the arrangements rock as much as these do.

Gavin Degraw is an extroverted twenty-six-year-old New York singer and songwriter; his
Chariot is a brash rock-accented pop album that sounds like it could have been recorded
anytime in the last twenty-five years, thanks to the spotlight clarity of his strong tenor
voice and the well-rehearsed attacks of his band. DeGraw isn't trying to evoke any retro
sound, though: He puts all his creative money on his songs and performances. T... More >