​Barbara Manning and the Sleaze Tax
Hemlock Tavern,
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Electric folkie, indie-rock goddess, and baseball nut Barbara Manning must have been in the witness protection program. Or maybe she was farming alpacas in New Zealand. In any case, she's been largely absent from the S.F. live music scene for almost a decade. (It turns out she was getting a bachelor's in biology at Cal State Chico.) But you'd never know it, based on her rip-roaring set at the Hemlock with her new ba