Gene Mitchell

Gene Mitchell was born in the coastal town of Brunswick, Georgia. He began his musical career in the mid-'70s, performing with various bands in Georgia and Florida. With the advent of disco, fewer clubs were hiring rock bands, so Mitchell started performing as a solo act, singing originals as well as songs by Jim Croce, Dan Fogelberg, Harry Chapin, Gordon Lightfoot, James Taylor, and other great singer/songwriters of the era. In 1978, attracted by the financial security and educational benefits it had to offer, Mitchell joined the U.S. Navy, figuring that after four years, the...