Barbara Manning
Barbara Manning (born December 12, 1964 in San Diego, California)[1][2] is an American indie rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. In addition to her solo career, Manning has been active in a number of bands, including 28th Day (with Cole Marquis), World of Pooh, S.F. Seals and The Go-Luckys!.
In addition to being a highly regarded songwriter, Manning has distinguished herself as an interpreter of other writers' songs. Artists she has covered include The Bats ("Smoking Her Wings"), Richard Thompson ("The End of the Rainbow"), Badfinger ("Baby Blue"), Jackson Browne ("These Days"), The Verlaines ("Joed Out"), Portastatic ("Through With People"), Amon Düül ("Marcus Leid"), and Les Paul and Mary Ford ("Blow The Smoke Away").
Manning sings the opening track, "San Diego Zoo", on the 1995 album Wasps' Nests by Stephin Merritt's side project The 6ths. Her cover of Marianne Faithfull's "The Shalala Song" can be heard in Jon Moritsugu's 1994 film Mod Fuck Explosion.
Barbara is the host of a weekly radio program called Radio Detour on the Chico, CA listener supported station KZFR. She is also currently playing in a new rock four-piece called The Sleaze Tax.
Partial discography
Barbara Manning
Album
- Lately I Keep Scissors (1988)
- One Perfect Green Blanket (1991)
- Barbara Manning Sings With the Original Artists (1993 - a collaboration with Stuart Moxham of Young Marble Giants and Jon Langford of The Mekons)
- 1212 (1997)
- In New Zealand (1999)
Compilations
- One Perfect Green Blanket (CD edition of first two albums)
- Under One Roof: Singles and Oddities (2000)
- Super Scissors (2007 - Disc Two is a re-issue of One Perfect Green Blanket with previously unreleased bonus tracks. Disc Three is entirely previously unreleased outtakes and demos)
Singles
- Untitled (1988 - split with Camper Van Beethoven and Russ Tolman
- Don't Let It Bring You Down b/w Haze is Free (Mounting a Broken Ladder) (1990)
- February 8, 1992 (1992 - with Seymour Glass)
- We Go Under (1993 - with Flophouse)
The Go-Luckys!
- Homeless Where the Heart Is (1999)
- You Should Know By Now (2001)
- Enjoy the Lonely Time (2006)
The 6ths
- Wasps' Nest. Vocals for single San Diego Zoo (1995)
Glands Of External Secretion
- Northern Exposure Will Be Right Back LP, Starlight Furniture Company (1995)
S.F. Seals
- Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows LP, Matador Records (1995)
- Nowherica b/w Being Cheated 7‐inch single, SubPop Records (1994)
- Nowhere LP, Matador Records (1994)
- Still? b/w Don't Underestimate Me 7‐inch single, Matador Records (1994)
- The Baseball Trilogy 7‐inch e.p., Matador Records (1993)
Barbara Manning with Flophouse
- Before We Go Under b/w I love You a Thousand Ways 7‐inch single, TeenBeat Records (1992)
Barbara Manning & Seymour Glass
- February 8, 1992 7‐inch e.p., Majora Records (1992)
World of Pooh
- A Trip To Your Tonsils e.p., Nuff Sed Records (1993)
- G.H.M. b/w Someone Wants You Dead 7‐inch single, K Records (1990)
- The Land of Thirst LP, Nuff Sed Records (1989)
28th Day
- 28th Day LP, Bring Out Your Dead/Enigma Records (1985) (Reissued on CD with bonus tracks by Innerscope Records in 2003)
Compilations
- 2009 - "SCORE! 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers" (Contributed a cover of Portastatic's "Through With People")
- 2007 - "You Hit Me With a Flower (Redux)" CD included in copies of Ptolemaic Terrascope #36 (Contributed the track "Crazy Man Michael", a cover of a song by Fairport Convention)
- 2006 - "silver monk time - a tribute to the monks" (29 bands cover the MONKS) label play loud! productions
- 1993 - "No Alternative" (Contributed the track "Joed Out" to the 1993 AIDS-Benefit Album No Alternative produced by the Red Hot Organization.)
- 1990 - 7‐inch flexi disc included in copies of The Bob #57. (Contributed the track "Someone Wants You Dead.")
- 1989 - "Heyday Acoustic Sampler" 7‐inch single, Heyday Records. (Contributed the track "These Days" by Jackson Browne.)