“…Mann is an original… he incorporates American musical traditions into his own ‘world’ music of blazing guitar work, improvisation, and personal, thought-provoking songs.” 

Down Beat Magazine

"You are unlikely to hear anything or anyone better in the fields that Mann has chosen to master" 

The Times (London)

“You can hear classical, jazz and blues approaches somehow converging into a single sparkling sound – a sound completely his own.
If there was a category called "great music” Woody's CD would belong there"

John Fahey