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  John Wesley Harding - CanEHdian.com
Harding is self-taught, however, learning guitar and counting among his influences David Bowie, Abba and Bob Dylan.
Harding's brand of acoustic folk/pop, combined with relentless touring throughout the city and country, earned him a large, dedicated fan base.
Harding continued with his pursuit of an acclaimed and diversified folk music career.
www.canehdian.com /non/artists/h/johnwesleyharding/biography.html   (445 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)

  
 John Wesley Harding Biography : Oldies.com
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".
www.oldies.com /artist-biography/John-Wesley-Harding.html   (357 words)

  
 Concerted Efforts - John Wesley Harding
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.
Harding recently completed a solo acoustic tour of the U.S. Soon after the album's release, Harding will again tour the U.S. with his band The Radical Gentleman.
www.concertedefforts.com /artists_hard.html   (943 words)

  
 Harmony Central®: Album Review: John Wesley Harding - The Confessions of St. Ace
Confessions is only his third full-length album in ten years, and while it's debatable whether these 12 short songs were worth the wait, there's no denying that gems nestle among them.
Harding's irony is abundant and artful: "I'm Wrong About Everything" is a jolly acknowledgment of male culpability in relationships -- "and when you hear the song you'll want to sing along," he advises us guys, and we hear him loud and clear.
Bigger, perhaps, for Harding is his failure to escape the shadow of Elvis Costello, to whom he has been relentlessly compared for years.
www.harmony-central.com /Albums/JWHarding/Confessions.html   (434 words)

  
 John Wesley Harding (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Wesley Harding is Bob Dylan's 8th studio album, released by Columbia Records in 1967.
John Wesley Harding was recorded around the same time as (and shares many stylistic threads with) a prolific series of home recording sessions with The Band, finally released in 1975 as The Basement Tapes.
In the late 1980s, the name John Wesley Harding was adopted by British singer Wesley Harding Stace, whose albums include "Here Comes the Groom" and whose style is similar to that of the Dylan album itself, as well as artists like Elvis Costello and folkster Billy Bragg.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Wesley_Harding_(album)   (3216 words)

  
 John Wesley Harding - Bob Dylan - Song Listings
A calm, reflective album, John Wesley Harding strips away all of the wilder tendencies of Dylan's rock albums -- even the then-unreleased Basement Tapes he made...
A calm, reflective album, John Wesley Harding strips away all of the wilder tendencies of Dylan's rock albums -- even the then-unreleased Basement Tapes he made the previous year -- but it isn't a return to his folk roots.
Instead, John Wesley Harding is informed by the rustic sound of country, as well as many rural myths, with seemingly simple songs like "All Along the Watchtower," "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine," and "The Wicked Messenger" revealing several layers of meaning with repeated plays.
www.mp3.com /albums/5233/summary.html   (494 words)

  
 John Wesley Harding -- "Awake"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The album begins and ends with the sound of an alarm clock ringing and a radio scanning the dial, finally landing on a fragment of a song (performed by Harding) called "Just Woke Up".
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)

  
 The Music Box: John Wesley Harding - Awake (Album Review)
First and foremost, Harding is an artist who is influenced by the storytelling of fellow folk singer John Prine.
Harding's clever wit and his distinctive ability to turn a phrase keep the multi-layered meanings of the songs on Awake open to interpretation.
Even album's title is a play on words, and the usage of two different fonts on its cover makes this distinction clear.
www.musicbox-online.com /jwhawake.html   (482 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: John Wesley Harding: Music: Bob Dylan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
John Wesley Harding (I've got myself singing it already) is a nice opener and really sets the tone for the album throughout.
Into this came the album that Robert Shelton described as "...Dylan whispering in a climate of shout and scream," with its stories of cowboys, outlaws and drifters that is perhaps Dylan's most underrated classic.
It comes as a shock after hearing his previous electric albums, but "John Wesley Harding" is more of a return to his old approach with the addition of a few renowned Nashville session musicians.
www.amazon.co.uk /John-Wesley-Harding-Bob-Dylan/dp/B0001M0KDE   (2038 words)

  
 Chat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
John Wesley Harding uh, just Wes to his friends, is 23 he is clean-shaven a university graduate and he's somewhat odd.
Well it doesn't since my real name is Wesley Harding Stace and I come from Hastings which is a little seaside town where you'd land if you kind of fell south of London, if there are any American's listening, and my family were a Methodist family and that's how I got the Wesley.
He used to gallivant around the country giving these incredible sermons and a lot of my forbearers were preachers, that’s those who weren’t magicians or opera singers, but most of them were preachers and I suppose there must be a bit of that in what I do.
www.johnwesleyharding.com /music/notes.chat.html   (229 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.
Harding paired with Chris von Sneidern for the arrangement and this can be heard in the bass line.
mammoth.go.com /johnwesleyharding   (1768 words)

  
 The Late Braking News: John Wesley Harding..................
The album was originally envisaged as a fl gospel release, and Cash recorded several such tunes including the strident ``God's Gonna Cut You Down'' before they decided to expand their horizons.
John D. Cressler, a professor in Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a researcher at the Georgia Electronic Design Center, said the work "redefines the upper bounds of what is possible" using silicon-germanium.
When John Adams predicted that the "great anniversary festival" would be celebrated forever, from one end of the continent to the other, he was talking about July 2.
latebrakingnews.blogspot.com /2006/07/john-wesley-harding.html   (19611 words)

  
 "John Wesley Harding - Vital Stats and a Historical Perspective"
One of these albums is severely out of place and it doesn't take a music professor to figure out that JWH is the odd man out.
The peace and love, LSD-drenched flavor of the other albums crashed head on into Dylan's dig deeper, get back to the roots and think about the big picture attitude.
As radically different an album as it was, the masses took to it in droves, immediately driving the album to number two, sandwiched between The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
www.classicrockpage.com /newslet/newsgrap/mar02/jwh.htm   (250 words)

  
 John Wesley Harding: The Confessions of St. Ace (2000): Reviews
It is one of his best in years and is filled with witty, thoughtful songwriting and polished instrumentation that works together to make a seamless album, engaging the listener.
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...
www.metacritic.com /music/artists/hardingjohnwesley/confessionsofstace   (377 words)

  
 John Wesley Harding
Bob Dylan's album John Wesley Harding's music takes a modern approach to folk.
The album strays from the format with "Dear Landlord" that features Dylan playing piano giving a slightly different feel than the other songs.
John Wesley Harding is certainly a strong album that offers much for fans of Dylan's folk and story songs.
www.thebestofwebsite.com /bands/Bob_Dylan/John_Wesley_Harding.htm   (378 words)

  
 John Wesley Harding
The major classifier between this album and the immediate ones Bob worked on before this is that the arranging is fairly minimal as well as quiet.
This is a very short, sweet, and simple tune that paints a character sketch of John Wesley Harding.
Its nature it prophetic and the subject matter is obviously derived from Biblical themes, which I assume was common in secular hymns of the day.
donignacio.com /dylanbob/johnwesleyharding.html   (1316 words)

  
 The Music Box: John Wesley Harding - Dynablob (Album Review)
Dynablob is the first in a series outtakes collections by John Wesley Harding, and this installment emphasizes material that was recorded between 1986 and 1994.
These are stripped-down, raw studio recordings — some of which were re-recorded and appeared on albums, and some which haven't seen the light of day until now.
This is Harding at his best, without pressure from a record company to polish his folk-rock works of art, and it very much sums up any of his outstanding concert performances.
www.musicbox-online.com /jwh-dyna.html   (225 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Trad Arr Jones: Music: John Wesley Harding   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Often compared to Elvis Costello, with whom he shares certain smoky vocal intonations, John Wesley Harding is working along the lines of another of his heroes, Bruce Springsteen.
In theory this album is a good idea, but the execution is so painful.
The entire repertoire on this album is to the same high standard as Little Musgrave.
www.amazon.com /Trad-Jones-John-Wesley-Harding/dp/B00000I13Z   (1048 words)

  
 John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan CD
Bob Dylan's eighth album followed a lengthy hibernation due to a motorcycle accident in which the singer re-evaluated his art.
He emerged with a set of stark simplicity and heartfelt intensity, melding folk, rock, and country with a mesmerizing power that set off a huge back-to-basics movement in rock that lasted well into the next decade.
John Wesley Harding repays repeated play with ever-unfolding metaphor and interpretation, including four hidden Beatles on the cover.
cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/6308724/a/John+Wesley+Harding.htm   (463 words)

  
 CD Baby: JOHN WESLEY HARDING: It Happened One Night & It Never Happened At All
His very first album, 1989's "It Happened One Night," was recognized as "remarkable" (Creem); his latest CD, 2004's "Adam's Apple," was described as "an instant classic" (Paste).
First there was Wesley Stace, born in Hastings, England in 1965 to a mother who taught singing and a father who was a classics scholar.
In the words of his signature song, "The Devil in Me," Harding shares the hardest lesson in life: "It all seems just like human behavior to me." John Wesley Harding is doing his creative best to inspire the awareness, hope and change we so desperately need.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/jwharding3   (765 words)

  
 Amazon.com: John Wesley Harding: Music: Bob Dylan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I've been listening to this album for 37 years; to be fair, this recording has some odd characteristics to the sound (particularly the drums).
A hobo without regret and some advice to give, "Stay free from petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road." Dylan's hobo, like Dylan himself, is a lot of things, but a beggar he is not.
Then there is the excellent song about that western outlaw, turned somewhat of a saint in the title song of this record, "John Wesley Harding" is Dylan accurate in his portrayal of the outlaw, well he misspelled his name, maybe that's a clue.
www.amazon.com /John-Wesley-Harding-Bob-Dylan/dp/B0000C8AV9   (1747 words)

  
 Harding John Wesley – ( ROY ORBISON KNOWS TAB )
Harding John Wesley – (ROY ORBISON KNOWS TAB)
I now have the four full albums, "The Name Above The Title", "It Happened One Night", "Why We Fight" and "Here Comes The Groom".
Ryan Harding, Applied Optics, UKC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Now no-one's sitting on the fence, whose garden will we end up sitting in?" - John Wesley Harding, "The Person You Are" from "The Name Above The Title" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
www.guitaretab.com /h/harding-john-wesley/7768.html   (604 words)

  
 Cover of John Wesley Harding
Rumour has it that you can see the Beatles' faces on the cover of John Wesley Harding LP (but not the CD).
I own a vinyl copy of JWH and as hard I try, I can't see John, Paul, George, Ringo, or even Pete Best on the cover.
For all those among you who want to try and find them (I assume you all like to look for clues that Paul is dead and that New Morning played backwards talks about Mars invading) take the album, not the CD although you can see it there too, and turn it upside down.
www.edlis.org /twice/threads/john_wesley_harding_cover.html   (1052 words)

  
 John Wesley Harding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Wesley Harding (album), a 1967 Bob Dylan album
John Wesley Harding (singer), an English singer (born Wesley Harding Stace)
John Wesley Hardin, the American gun-fighter whose name is rendered as "John Wesley Harding" on the Dylan song and album
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Wesley_Harding   (117 words)

  
 John Wesley Harding   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Although it has been some four years since John Wesley Harding's last album, Why We Fight, not a lot has changed.
While New Deal does find the singer/songwriter on a new label (hence the album's title), it also finds him trying to perfect the same things he's been at for years.
This is not at all a bad thing; it's a style which JWH carries off well, without sounding like a second-rate rip-off (a first rate rip-off, at times perhaps).
www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/students/VOX/Albums/johnwesley.htm   (241 words)

  
 Dylan Studio Pg. 2
This was released as a two album set.
It has some good songs, mostly covers, but overall it is a uneven.
Our individual album reference page breaks down the dates and notes the albums the outtake was taken from when known.
www.thebestofwebsite.com /bands/Bob_Dylan/Disc_Dylan_Studio2.htm   (215 words)

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