Steve Gillette

If there's an unfortunate aspect to Steve Gillette's career, it's that he was born just a little too late to become a star on the folk circuit during the boom days of the early-'60s folk revival. With his unabashedly romantic voice and the right ballad, he might've easily soared into the Top Ten in an era in which songs like "Michael" and "Green Green" were scaling the pop charts; he might even have beaten his younger southern California contemporary Jackson Browne to the punch, as a star singer as well as a songwriter, while the latter was passing in and out of the Nitty Grit...