Barbara Manning’s new CD ‘Charm of Yesterday...Convenience of Tomorrow’ is out December 8th.
In a four minute catchy song, Manning can communicate what others require novels to express. Whether it’s the songs she covers or her original material, Manning’s music is compact and succinct, and is steeped in multitudes of genre periods and styles.
With an upcoming tour joining Codeine, Manning felt the time was right for something new. Thus, ‘Charm of Yesterday...Convenience of Tomorrow’. It compiles a few different periods. ‘Chico Daze’ is a song cycle that absorbed the dark times and experiences she had in Northern California through the 2010s. ‘The Porch Series’ cover songs were Manning’s antidote to pandemic madness, and features the music by Elliott Smith, Edgar Winter, Richard & Linda Thompson, Galaxie 500, Bob Dylan and The Handsome Family.
The first two singles off of her new album are already out and give a taste of her genius; Her rendition of ‘Twilight’ by Elliott Smith, and her original ‘I’m Running’.
Listen to songs from the album and preorder here