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	John Wesley Harding : Rolling Stone
		John Wesley Harding remembers his roots with "Trad Arr Jones"
		Veteran troubadour awakens with a new release on a new label.
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	www.rollingstone.com /artists/johnwesleyharding (61 words)

	John Wesley Harding (singer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His given name, Wesley, comes from John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, who preached one of his last sermons in the town where Harding was born.
		His stage name may be seen as an almost inevitable nickname for a folk-pop musician, in that his first and middle name overlap with the Bob Dylan album (and song) "John Wesley Harding".
		The American gunfighting historical figure John Wesley Hardin was largely forgotten before 1965, when Johnny Cash wrote and recorded the song "Hardin Wouldn't Run".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Wesley_Harding_(singer) (362 words)

	RADAR REPORT: John Wesley Harding
		Early on, singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding (born Wesley Stace in Sussex, England) was drawn to American music -- particularly to Bob Dylan and his contemporaries and protégés from the 1960s and early 70s.
		Harding is particularly proud of the album’s most un-pop track, "Sussex Ghost Story," a fictional story-song of love and murder which is a collaboration with renowned British post-modern composer Gavin Bryars.
		Harding grew up in a family in which music was prevalent -- his father played piano and organ, his mother was a singer of Schubert and his two sisters are, respectively, a star of British musical theater and a singer-songwriter.
	www.ascap.com /playback/2004/june/radar-harding.html (415 words)

	Concerted Efforts - John Wesley Harding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Upon moving to London, JWH soon acquired a reputation as someone with something to say and a tune to say it with - he secured choice opening slots on a variety of stages for artists as diverse as Hothouse Flowers, Ted Hawkins and John Hiatt.
		Harding relocated to Seattle, and set about writing and recording Trad Arr Jones, a unique and studied tribute to the work of trad English folky Nic Jones whose career was tragically cut short by an automobile accident.
		Despite the musical detours, Harding's eye had never left the ball and so with a new contract with Mammoth Records he entered the pop rock realm once again with a defiant glint in his eye and recorded perhaps his best record thus far.
	www.concertedefforts.com /artists_hard.asp (943 words)

	John Wesley Harding
		The pairing of John Wesley Harding and Steve Wynn (both are new signees to the record label Zero Hour) should result in a night of good-natured cynicism the likes of which we don't see often enough.
		Today, when a fly in your chardonnay is "ironic," when irony is largely thought of as misfortune—or as sarcasm with a British accent—these two are notable for their talent for turning a phrase and a tune into bouncy, pithy commentary.
		Harding, the headliner, does not turn the phrase quite so twistingly as, say, Elvis Costello, but he creates equally attention-grabbing characters and images in more solid, basic songs.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/052198/pick.harding.shtml (204 words)

	Oldies.com : John Wesley Harding
		Harding's debut album was a recording of a solo acoustic live set, and contained the barbed critique of Live Aid, "July 13th 1985".
		Harding's first studio effort, 1990's Here Comes The Groom, was a superior collection showcasing Harding's confrontational style and acerbic wit, and featured the Attractions" Pete Thomas (drums) and Bruce Thomas (bass), giving the album musical depth but also presenting an easy target for the Costello copyist critics.
		Harding's "folk noir" songwriting reached new heights on "Where The Bodies Are" (from Why We Fight) and "The Triumph Of Trash" (from New Deal), while the latter's "In Paradise" was a perceptive update of the Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset".
	family.oldies.com /artist/view.cfm/id_3572.html (433 words)

	John Wesley Harding - Trad Arr Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Harding (born Wesley Harding Stace in Hastings, East Sussex, England, in 1965) is joined on this album by Robert Lloyd.
		Harding has released at least eight albums since the late '80s, although not all currently seem to be available.
		Harding himself says, in the liner notes, that he realizes he cannot match Jones' guitar virtuosity and has rearranged (and simplified) the accompaniments.
	www.greenmanreview.com /nj.html (1125 words)

	FAME Review: John Wesley Harding - Trad Arr Jones
		Harding, born Wesley Harding Stace, sings a collection of traditional folk songs that were arranged, written, or rewritten by folk music legend Nic Jones, who has not performed in public since his 1982 car accident.
		Fans of Harding's usually biting sarcasm and more electric albums may find this album a bit hard to swallow, and traditional-music purists may dismiss this album as a knock-off by a wanna-be, but these would be extreme positions.
		Casual fans of Harding's contemporary folk-pop music may have a harder time embracing the album, as several careful listenings without the lyrics will be required to fully appreciate the work.
	www.acousticmusic.com /fame/p01046.htm (606 words)

	John Wesley Harding -- "Awake" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		On stage, Harding is at his best: an insightful and ironic performer with a passionate voice, an acoustic guitar, and nothing else.
		The album between is meant to inhabit the no-man's-land between sleep and awake, when the mind drifts and dances free of the restrictions imposed by consciousness.
		Harding's songs live in this twilight world, untethered to convention and free to roam the idiosyncratic thoughts we all explore as we contemplate the ceiling and the day ahead.
	communication.ucsd.edu /tlg/riffs/harding.awake.html (266 words)

	John Wesley Harding: Trad Arr Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Trad Arr Jones is John Wesley Harding's seventh full length LP and the first album the prolific songwriter has made that does not contain any his own songs.
		On Trad Arr Jones, JWH sings a collection of traditional folk songs that were arranged, written or rewritten by folk music legend Nic Jones, who has not performed in public since his car accident in 1982.
		John Wesley Harding was born Wesley Harding Stace in Hastings, England, in 1965.
	www.wesweb.net /recordings/tradarrjones/bio.html (969 words)

	John Wesley Harding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Whereas most of the songs on Harding's previous albums worked equally well in the studio as when they're stripped down to a couple acoustic instruments onstage, the songs from Awake have stronger requirements.
		Most of Harding's albums have followed a pattern of him going into the studio with a good band and recording fuller versions of road-tested acoustic tunes.
		Leading off with the percussive swish of the thumbwheel of a cigarette lighter and a low piano motif, the song reaches deeper as references to fire, both musical and lyrical, are sown throughout.
	annette.net /ints/harding.html (673 words)

	Mammoth Records > John Wesley Harding
		My first impression of John Wesley Harding the man is that he is very much like his music -wickedly clever, energetic, hip and very, very smart.
		Harding is expert at taking the dusty and obscure and making it new and compulsively listenable.
		While this song is about the defeat of love, "Hard" has a soaring quality to it that makes you want to stand at the edge of a cliff and raise your arms, while a Panovision Camera swoops around you.
	mammoth.com /johnwesleyharding (1768 words)

	Wesley, John on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Wesley Clark (D.) on Baghdad terrorism, in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "Maybe it's desperation.
		Wesley Clark à l'annonce des résultats Le général à la retraite Wesley Clark bénéficie de 13% des voix, un point devant le.
		John KERRY and Gen. Wesley CLARK at a rally.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/Wesley-J1.asp (562 words)

	John Wesley Harding: Awake: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		After Harding left Sire for Zero Hour, he apparently explored his politicized troubadour self for a couple of albums before releasing Awake, which seems to be a blend of his acoustic folk and Baroque pop sides.
		Especially annoying is Harding's folkster tendency to write songs that are about himself, on which he'll sing, "This is a song I wrote myself in the future" (on the song of the same name) and "If I die tomorrow don't read too much into this song" ("Burn").
		Harding is still in fine voice and he hasn't lost his knack for pop hooks, thus redeeming the album to an extent.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/h/harding_johnwesley/awake.shtml (502 words)

	Harding ends tour with sharp, giddy set - The Washington Times: Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding may be too wry for his own good.
		Harding, accompanied by longtime musical chum Robert Lloyd on mandolin and organ, infused Tuesday's concert with a festive spirit.
		Harding kept its structure intact while throwing into relief its tale of a pregnant woman's plight.
	washingtontimes.com /entertainment/20031126-094541-2312r.htm (413 words)

	John Wesley Harding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		"Hard" condenses the history of two people who emerge from a long love affair only to end up as strangers ("We slept through one another's nightmares / Till we forgot what beds are for").
		Early in his career, John Wesley Harding was dogged by constant comparisons to Elvis Costello (which he only fostered by hiring the Attractions to back him on one album).
		But this record proves Harding has become his own man, with a unique slant on traditional pop songwriting formulas and a talent that even Elvis Costello might envy.
	www.puremusic.com /harding.html (338 words)

	Music \| John Wesley Harding
		John Wesley Harding is that rare literary voice who doesn’t attempt to cram every last turn of phrase into a song at the expense of the tune.
		The first single, "Negative Love," and "Sleeper Awake" keep to the Harding standard of polished grooves upholstered with warmly amplified guitars, stately keyboards, and sad-cast vocals.
		A natural MOR brooder, slightly bland over the long haul, Harding attempts to spice things up via funk ("Sluts") and humor ("She Never Talks"), but he does best when he stays within his limitations.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/otr/documents/03568941.asp (223 words)

	Book Signing: John Wesley Harding writes the book on one of his songs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		As Harding explains, "When you're writing a song, there might be a number of reasons for writing the line after you've written the one that you're writing.
		Still, as Harding puts it, it was quite an undertaking -- especially with its being a period piece and all.
		Of his novel's Dickensian flavor, Harding says, "There's a whole bunch of books right now that are willing to take subjects and stories and matters that Dickens, because of when he lived, couldn't possibly have dealt with, because you just couldn't talk about those things, and set them in a Dickensian time.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05105/488299.stm (1085 words)

	John Wesley Harding turned a story from a song into a lucrative book deal
		Singer David Lewis, making his third album with Harding, had to fly back to London to face an early-morning class at the London School of Economics, where he is an archaeology professor.
		As John Wesley Harding, the native of Hastings, England, recorded 14 albums over 17 years, played with big names across the country and developed a small but loyal following.
		Wesley Stace, the author previously known as singer John Wesley Harding, will read from and sign copies of his novel, "Misfortune," at 7 p.m.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/18/DDGNIC9P1J1.DTL (1283 words)

	John Wesley Harding - Music Downloads - Online
		Bio: John Wesley Harding may take his name from a Bob Dylan album and he's a modern-day folksinger, but with the biting, cynical observations in his songs and sharp sense of humor combined with winning melodies, he shows his true forefathers are Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe with a hint of Billy Bragg.
		Wesley Harding Stace was born in Hastings, East Sussex, England in 1965.
		An opening slot for John Hiatt attracted the attention of Demon Records who signed him and released the live It Happened One Night the same year.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/009/John-Wesley-Harding/7694261.html (367 words)

	Warehouse Eyes - John Wesley Harding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The December 1967 release of "John Wesley Harding" was up to that point, the biggest change of musical direction that Bob Dylan had undertaken.
		John Herdman in 1982's Voice Without Restraint (which takes it's title from the lyrics of this song) says that the songs on this album are "...constructed in such a way as strenuously to resist interpretation" and that is particularly true here.
		That said, I consider this to be one of the highlights of JWH, Dylan's deadpan, half-mocking delivery is strangely at odds with the uneasy feel of the song, and his arcane phraseology almost invites you to look for hidden meanings.
	warehouseeyes.netfirms.com /jwh.html (1447 words)

	Splendid E-zine reviews: John Wesley Harding
		When I hear these people complaining, I tell them the same thing I’m going to tell all of you: quit your damn whining and pick up a copy of John Wesley Harding’s The Confessions of St. Ace, for it is without a doubt the best Elvis Costello record that Costello never recorded.
		Forsaking the folk roots of his namesake, Harding instead relies on lush and intricate arrangements to project his grand musical vision.
		Throughout the entire twelve song trip, Harding proves that he’s sharp, witty and has quite an ear for melody.
	www.splendidezine.com /reviews/nov-6-00/johnwesley.html (411 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: John Wesley Harding
		Crisply produced by Andy Paley, Harding's first studio LP, Here Comes the Groom, is a fine modern realization of the same honest singing and playing that typified England's pub-rock graduates.
		While Harding doesn't sound as if he's intentionally trying to imitate anybody, there's no getting around the way it comes out.
		And while he brings plenty of talent and originality (especially the lyrics, which are strictly his own style) to this enjoyable and intelligent party, the frequent resemblance to Costello gives what is in fact a fine album a waxy air of familiarity.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=john_wesley_harding (604 words)

	John Wesley Harding: The Confessions of St. Ace (2000): Reviews
		Through the first three songs, Confessions sounds for all the world like the masterpiece John Wesley Harding has seemed unwilling to make throughout the detours and bypasses his career has taken since his magnificent 1990 debut....
		Harding has streamlined his lyrics and placed them in taut, soulful settings à la John Hiatt...
		Harding's songwrinting has matured without becoming dull or pretensious.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/hardingjohnwesley/confessionsofstace (357 words)

	Paste Magazine :: Feature :: John Wesley Harding's Love Hall Tryst (Page 1)
		Before the album, Harding—writing under his birth name, Wesley Stace—conjured a feast of tenderness, flesh, wit and melancholia (by which of course I mean a novel) called Misfortune, anchored by a male narrator who sometimes passes as a woman.
		On the album, Harding and his cohorts belt out murder ballads in eerie, close, entirely naked harmonies.
		Stace (I mean Harding, the singer) says that one of the greatest benefits of the work is its latest permutation: the tour he’s beginning with Hogan, whose camaraderie he cherishes.
	www.pastemagazine.com /action/article/2360/john_wesley_hardings_love_hall_tryst (451 words)

	John Wesley Harding -- "The Confessions of St. Ace" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		But being selected for this obsessively finicky music movie is probably a more impressive vote of confidence in Harding than anything rock critics or record sales could say.
		But it should impress Harding's fans, who waited patiently while Harding explored traditional folk on "Trad Arr Jones" and moody atmospherics on "Awake".
		But for Harding fans (and of similarly accomplished songwriters, from Aimee Mann to Michael Penn to The Barenaked Ladies) "St. Ace" is a satisfying journey home.
	communication.ucsd.edu /tlg/riffs/harding.confessions.html (270 words)

	John Wesley Harding - The Confessions of St. Ace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Despite all of these distinctions, John Wesley Harding has kept a relatively low profile in the music world.
		His latest album, The Confessions of St. Ace, is one more in a long line of excellent recordings that will hopefully garner a few new converts as well as paint a silly, dreamlike grin on the faces of longtime fans.
		The name "John Wesley Harding" recalls a classic Bob Dylan album (Wes, as fans and friends call him, was christened Wesley Harding Stace and did indeed take his stage name from Dylan's song), and there are definitely shades of Dylan in his brutally honest, melody-rich creations.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~jsliese/wes.html (703 words)

	John Wesley Harding: read reviews
		The shift in scale on JWH is significantly down, conferring the illusion of being graspable.
		Some of my favorites are "John Wesley Harding", "All Along The Watchtower", "Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest", "I Am A Lonesome Hobo", and "I Pity The Poor Immigrant".
		Though John Wesley Harding doesn't have many of Dylan's most noteworthy songs and "I'll Be Your Baby, Tonight" seems out-of-place here, it's my favorite Dylan album.
	www.minso.us /33703076014641703778.asp (813 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Music: John Wesley Harding [HYBRID SACD] [SACD] [Original recording remastered] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		While some Dylan albums are off the scale (eg Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks), some of his albums are JUST brilliant- John Wesley Harding (1968) is such a case...
		John Wesley Harding, I feel, is often overlooked- a wonderful selection of country/folk songs.
		John Wesley Harding more than warrants reinvestigation in this freshly remastered form- it would be his most consistent album until Blood on the Tracks (1975) I'd place it in the Top Ten Dylan albums thus far...
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000AE8SI (564 words)

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