Bob Dylan withdrew from the public eye in mid-1966, following a whirlwind couple of years in which he became a legend and a reluctant star. He ultimately found a reason that was fitting of his testy ...

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 ...

Having clearly arrived at that point in the week where I've either had too much coffee, or not enough, how about we pause and enjoy a sharp song and a funny video? writes novels under the name Wesley ...

In keeping with his adopted moniker, John Wesley Harding, nee Wes Stace, has too often been a bit too clever in penning original material from his position in the circle of late Seventies-early ...

Update: k.d. lang has been added, because now they're just taunting. Tickets on sale now. Portland's been a pretty good town for (a.k.a. John Wesley Harding). The novelist and singer-songwriter has ...

In the autumn of 1967, Bob Dylan took a mysterious trip to Nashville. “As I recall, it was just on a kind of whim that Bob went down,” Robbie Robertson, who had spent much of that summer wood shedding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 9, 1968, legendary folk musician Bob Dylan released his eighth album, John Wesley Harding. The record was a critical and ...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the “birth” of John Wesley Harding, the alter ego of British singer-songwriter Wesley Stace. It also marks the year of that alter ego’s death: Stace’s new album ...

"When I first started making music, I took a fake name to disguise the fact I was going to embark on what was bound to be a short, unsatisfactory musical career," John Wesley Harding says. That was 23 ...

Earlier this week, we posted recently unearthed video of Wesley Stace (aka John Wesley Harding) performing with Bruce Springsteen in 2010 at Fairleigh Dickinson University (NJ) discussion. Stace ...

We can all relax now. Bob Dylan isn’t dead. He is all right. He is well and he’s not a basket case hidden from our view forever, the lovely words and the haunting sounds gone as a result of some ...

Wesley Stace, the novelist occasionally known as singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding, once wrote a poignant tribute to Bruce Springsteen’s physical presence on stage: “The way Springsteen moves is ...