Phil Manning

Vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Phil Manning brought the lyrical aspect from the blues to Australia. Being a founding person in Chain, among Australia’s most widely known blues rings, Manning continues to be equally successful being a soloist and sideman for an extended list of performers including Bo Diddley, Champ Jack port Dupree, Mick Taylor, Kristina Olsen, and Electric guitar Shorty. The grandson of the Tasmanian bandleader, Manning cites Blind Blake, Robert Johnson, Doc Watson, and Celtic music as affects. In 1967, he started using harp participant and vocalist Matt Taylor in a brief lived music group, Bay Town Union. Following group’s disbanding in 1968, Manning and Taylor produced String. Although Chain’s debut record, Live (1969), hinted on the band’s skills, the group’s second record, On the Blues, produced them nationwide superstars and was authorized for gold position twice. The music group continued its achievement with the discharge of Live Once again in 1973 and Two of a sort in 1974. Starting his solo profession in 1977, Manning showcased his glide and fingerstyle electric guitar playing on his debut single album, I Desire There Was a means. He continued to target specifically on his single career for another six years until 1980 when he created a fresh group, the Oz Music group, with keyboardist Bob Individual, harp participant Howie Smallman, bassist Roy Daniels, and drummer Rick Whittle. The band’s 1st recording, Oz Blues, reunited Manning and Taylor. Resurrected in 1983, String released their 5th album, Kid Of THE ROAD. The reunion was short-lived, nevertheless, as well as the group didn’t record another recording collectively until 1999 if they documented, Mix IN THE Oils. Manning, in the mean time, continuing to record by himself, liberating It’s Blues in 1988, Live At Stony Bridge in 1990, Can’t Stay in 1992, THE TRUNK Shed in 1994, and Two Highways in 1998.