Steve Gaines

It's impossible to think of Steve Gaines without calling to mind the tragic circumstances of his death. Like Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper and their relationship to Buddy Holly, his musical legacy has been eclipsed by the facts of how and with whom he died. In a fairer reality, he'd have been remember for a lot more. Steve Earl Gaines was born in 1949 in Miami, OK, a small city (population under 20,000) best known historically as the first town to be incorporated out of the Indian Territory in the 1890s. He reached his teens in the early '60s, well into the rock & roll e...