Bishop Manning And The Manning Family

Gospel singer and harmonica and guitar player Bishop Manning was born Dready Manning in 1934 in Gaston, North Carolina. After learning how to play guitar from a cousin at the age of six, music set the course for the rest of his life, although it would take him down two widely divergent paths. He began playing in the area's bars and juke joints as a teenager, channeling the blues and living the hard-drinking, whiskey-soaked life of a blues musician. This path down the road through the earthly pleasures of secular music came to an end in 1962 when he began bleeding out of his no...