Eric Will says David Gates was more than a longtime bass player ... "He was such a great player and great singer," Will says. "He was probably one of the best I worked with in Central New York." ...

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 ...

This 3,068-acre ranch once owned by singer-songwriter David Gates, co-lead singer of the pop-music group Bread, is located in northern California’s Fall River Valley. Known as the Carroll ...

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 ...

However, there is more to “Everything I Own” than that. The song was written by David Gates, the singer of Bread, a group who were airbrushed from rock history because they were never hip or ...

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 ...