In the early '90s, charming folk-pop troubadour John Wesley Harding looked like a star in the making. Finding a comfort zone between the wry absurdism of Robyn Hitchcock and the bold expressiveness of ...

John Wesley Harding is a very smart fellow. His first novel will be published next spring by Little, Brown (under his birth name, Wesley Stace). His new album, "Adam's Apple," builds one song from ...

During much of the 90s it was common–and not entirely unfair–to knock John Wesley Harding as a B-grade Elvis Costello. Their voices sounded uncannily alike, they had a similar taste for wordplay-laden ...

I'm wrong about everything," John Wesley Harding sings on The Confessions Of St. Ace, his first album for yet another label. "I think you'll like our song, but I'm wrong." But you can't be wrong all ...

A one-man tribute album, John Wesley Harding's Trad Arr Jones pays generous homage to folksinger Nic Jones, who hasn't played in public since his involvement in a car accident in 1982. But between ...

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