In his twenty-six years, John Mann has veered both near and far from his native western Kentucky. After going to college in Lexington, Mann moved for a brief period to San Diego, before returning to Kentucky and making the move to Louisville two years ago. With an interesting musical heritage (Mann's cousin is former Sun Records artist Carl Mann, who had a hit in the fifties with an up-tempo reworking of the pop standard, Mona Lisa), Mann has tried to keep his music planted in the present with an always keen eye to the past. In December of 2004 John released his second album called Hands in the Pavement, which is now is rotation on WFPK 91.9 in Louisville, KY. Download MP3 clips or purchase the album right here online. Mann knows how to structure his material, he crafts songs that often acknowledge the importance of the past and pine for simple pleasures, but without nostalgia or vagueness and naivete taking over. ---T.E. Lyons LEO Weekly, ...