In an era when stars are manufactured at painfully young ages…, when everyone from your neighbor down the block to dear old Dad can attain seemingly instant celebrity status…, Jim Witter, the humble, unassuming, golden-throated tenor, who can paint a ballad with the delicacy of Serrate and with the ferocity of a rousing rocker like Pollock, reached the summit of his stunning major-label debut, Forgiveness, the old-fashioned way: He climbed it. Step-by-step. Day-by-day. Year-by-year.