His official website describes his music as being a "blend Indian folk melodies with slide guitar blues, add a sprinkle of gospel and some compelling grooves and you'll get Manx's unique "mysticssippi" flavour.

"[2] Manx plays the slide guitar, harmonica, six-string banjo, mohan veena and Ellis stomp box.

[3] He left Toronto in the late 1970s, when he was 20, to return to Europe and started making money as a busker and also found work at festivals as a blues lapslide guitarist and songwriter.

[6][7] In 2000, Manx moved back to Canada and set up residence in Saltspring Island, British Columbia and recorded his first Canadian album at the Barn Studios.

This debut recording features 14 tracks of his one-man-band sound on the lap slide guitar, the Mohan Veena, the harmonica and vocals.

In a 2002 interview, in their house on Saltspring Island, Manx talked about the stresses of leaving his wife and son when on touring.