On “Make It with You,” it’s pretty clear what Bread has on the mind. The 1970s soft-rock classic rounded the edges of innuendo. The recording is yachty and smooth, and sonically foreshadowed ...

No songwriter/performer in the early ‘70s combined melodic ease with sensitive, heart-tugging lyrics like David ... reggae singer Ken Boothe and Boy George of Culture Club fame. Yet Gates ...

Like the monicker given to the band of which he was prime mover in the seventies, David Gates's music ... an unexpected thaw in this cynic. Gates may be a singer so laid back that he makes James ...