Thinking About Bread -Manna -1971

On one old album cover from my early high school days, four young men pose casually in the center doorway of a weathered beige adobe-looking building with some cracks in its walls. From left to right, they are dressed in western shirts blue, black, and brown respectively. The center guy is crouched down, arms on his thighs wearing a white shirt and the thin strip of a tie. This album has a back side interesting as well. It features an image of four bakers in an old-time kitchen, but the colors are a muted black and brown. I look again at the front of the cover. The large building entrance in which the band members pose has written above it the word Manna. Manna is the name in Spanish for bread. That doorway right in the center of the cover represents an actual slice of bread. I don’t believe I’d figured that out before! I was just a teeny bopper then, excitedly removing the album from it’s folding cover, also finding inside it the lyrics to the lovely soft rock songs sung so beautifully by the soulful lead singer, David Gates. I’d listen to the songs sometimes before I went to sleep, cherishing poetic lines like this: “If a man could be two places at one time, I’d be with you - tomorrow and today, beside you all the way.”