Barbara Manning is far from a prolific writer of songs - but she's a great one, with subtle unforgettable melodies and lyrics that cut to the heart of personalities and relationships. She's also got a gift for interpreting other people's songs and an intriguing taste for combining straightforward singing and guitar playing with much more experimental sounds." - Trouser Press Guide to Rock.

Barbara Manning & The Go Luckys - You Should Know By Now
A review from "The Stranger" --For 15 years, underground darling Barbara Manning has been crafting small gems of folk-pop wonder. Solo or with the San Francisco Seals, Manning has shown impeccable, transformative taste in covers and a capacity for great songwriting. Along the way she has established a plain-spoken voice struggling for hard-won decency and respect in the face of romantic disappointments and frustrations. With twin brothers Fabrizio and Flavio Steinbach on bass and drums respectively, Manning has found her strongest band dynamic to date. She first recorded with the Steinbach brothers on 1999's excellent Homeless Where the Heart Is EP. It crackled with power-trio vibrancy. Her latest album continues in the same vein, with an urgent bounce and Manning's hallmark lyrical acuity and gentle insights. Opening with the fierce jangle of "Don't Neglect Yourself," the album flies by with a shifting blend of confessions, homilies, and second thoughts.

Tracks:
Don't neglect yourself / You knock me out / I insist / Time to be / Goof on the roof / Boston song / Buds won't bud / Rhombus / Never made love / Incapable

Personnel: Barbara Manning vocals, guitar, bass;
Fabrizio Steinbach, guitar, bass;
Flavio Steinbach, drums.
with Terri Manning, Lolo Blumler and Jeff Palmer.

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Under One Roof:
Singles & Oddities
This CD gathers together the cream of Barbara's various solo and collaborative 7-inch singles, various artist compilation tracks and some previously unreleased gems. The recordings range from solo Barbara to various combinations of musicians and bands, including her sister Terri, SF Seals, Mad V. Dog, Flophouse, X Tal, The Glands of External Secretion, Cole Marquis, Jefferson Parker, Greg Freeman, and members of Dump & Bettie Seveert. Most of these songs appear on CD for the FIRST TIME EVER...

Annotation and written comments about each song by Barbara

Tracks: Don't Let It Bring You Down / Haze Is Free (Mounting A Broken Ladder) / These Days / Someone Wants You Dead / Baby, We're Really In Love / I Love You 1000 Ways / B4 We Go Under / Joed Out / Damned Lucky / Being Cheated / Don't Rewind / Cake Walking / Hide Your Love Away / Blood of Feeling / Slip Into the Ocean / Hummingbird / Shalala Song / I Can't Watch You Play Drums

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Barbara Manning
& The Go Luckys

Homeless
Where the Heart Is

This beautifully packaged CD EP from Germany features Barbara playing and singing on six of her own songs with a simple but enigmatic backing band.

Tracks:

Life/Luck
Long Distance
Soundtracks
Old Woman
Hanging By Strands
Isn't Lonely Lovely?

Personnel: Barbara Manning vocals, guitar, bass;
Fabrizio Steinbach, guitar, bass;
Flavio Steinbach, drums.

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