Face the River

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Face the River
Gavin DeGraw - Face the River.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 20, 2022 (2022-05-20)
Studio RCA Studio A (Nashville, Tennessee)
Length41:01
LanguageEnglish
Label RCA
Producer Dave Cobb
Gavin DeGraw chronology
Something Worth Saving
(2016)
Face the River
(2022)
A Classic Christmas
(2023)

this record was written from a very therapeutic standpoint. It was assembled from a very therapeutic standpoint. And of course on a global level, we were all going through unprecedented times as a world. And so when I was making the album, I was making the album during that time, at the height of COVID.

Contents

—DeGraw on recording this album. [1]

Face the River is the seventh studio album by the American pop musician Gavin DeGraw, released in 2022 by RCA Records. It was written about his parents, who had recently died. [2] [3] It was his first album in six years and was supported by a concert tour. [4]

Track listing

All songs were written by Gavin DeGraw

  1. "Face The River" – 3:37
  2. "Summertime" – 4:17
  3. "Ford" – 3:37
  4. "Freedom (Johnny's Song)" – 4:12
  5. "Greatest of All Time" – 3:39
  6. "Destiny" – 4:43
  7. "Lighthouse" – 4:21
  8. "Chasing When" – 3:19
  9. "Hero in Our House" – 4:55
  10. "Let Someone In" – 4:21

Personnel

Chart performance

The album spent one week on Billboard 's Top Album Sales, at 63 for the week of July 4, 2022. [5]

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