“Best I Ever Had” – Gavin DeGraw Almost all of his downtime was now devoted to teaching himself to play harmonica. He was also attempting to weave together any inspired moments found in his notebook. His feelings of defeat after the band had moved on without him were slowly transforming into feelings of resistance, which he hoped would lead to motivation. Now on his own, he realized the only limitations placed on his music as far as influence or genre or feel were self-imposed, and that was sort of freeing. Since the split from Southbound, he"d begun to dive into any music he"d never heard of. He didn"t care if it was a band listed on a flyer in the hole-in-the-wall Chinese food place by campus; he listened to them. Some of these adventures were a bust, obviously, but he came across some

