Biography

A British singer-songwriter of considerable charm, intelligence, and moxie, John Wesley Harding has been releasing albums since the early 1990s that walk the fine line between folk and pop. He's a Dylanesque troubadour with respect for the folk tradition who can also bang out hooky jangle pop and biting invective when the occasion calls for it. Fans and critics have been loyal, and he has parlayed his clever way with words into a second career as a novelist. His 2005 fiction debut, MISFORTUNE (written under his real name, Wesley Stace), was well-received by the literati.

Top Tracks

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• Annachie Gordon

• Bad Fruit

• Bastard Son

• Browning Road

• Calling Off The Experiment

• Captain Courageous (on Disko Island)

• Cathy's New Clown

• Cupid And Psycho

• Daylight Ghosts

• Fifty Fifty Split

• Headful Of Something/the Devil In Me

• Here Comes The Groom

• Hitler's Tears

• Humble Bee

• I Can Tell (when You're Telling Lies)

• I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus

• I Should Have Stopped

• I'm Wrong About Everything

• Infinite Combinations

• It's All My Fault

• July 13th 1985

• Kill The Messenger

• Like A Prayer

• Little Musgrave

• Loser's Blues

• Love Or Nothing

• Monkey And His Cat

• Negative Love

• Other People's Failure

• Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Steve Goodman, David Blue & Me

• She's A Piece Of Work

• Sluts

• Summer Single

• Sussex Ghost Story

• Talking Return Of The Great Folk Scare Blues

• The Devil In (little Ol') Me

• The Devil In Me

• The Night He Took Her To The Fairground

• The Original Miss Jesus

• The People's Drug

• The Person You Are

• The Singer's Request

• The Truth

• Top Of The Bottom

• When The Sun Comes Out

• Window Seat

• Your Ghost (don't Scare Me No More)

Discography

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• The Sound of His Own Voice

  Yep Roc

  2011

• Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

  popover / The Rebel Group

  2009

• Adam's Apple

  RTE / DRT Entertainment

  2004

• Confessions of St. Ace

  Mammoth

  2000

• Trad Arr Jones

  Zero Hour

  1999

• Dynablob 3: 26th March 1999

  DRT/Way Out Wes

  1999

• Dynablob 2: It Happened Every Night

  Wow

  1998

• John Wesley Harding's New Deal

  Rhino

  1996

• Why We Fight

  Sire

  1992

• The Name Above the Title

  Sire

  1991

• Here Comes the Groom

  Warner Bros.

  1989

• It Happened One Night

  Rhino

  1988