Artist: John Wesley Harding
Record Review from web archive March 17, 2009
John Wesley Harding
John Wesley Harding has long been one of our most literary singer-songwriter types and a true cineaste. After all, he’s had two novels published under his given name, Wesley Stace, with a third on the way, plus his first two full-length releases were named after Frank Capra movies and his third after Capra’s autobiography. Thus, [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #50 March-April 2004
John Wesley Harding – Adam’s Apple
John Wesley Harding is the sort of hyper-literate singer-songwriter who inspires reviewers to use adjectives such as “clever” and “precocious” — even though, at 38, he’s no longer that next-big-thing wunderkind who burst out in the late 1980s, covering Madonna songs and talking smack about Live Aid. You wouldn’t exactly call Harding all grown up [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #43 Jan-Feb 2003
John Wesley Harding – Knitting Factory (Los Angeles, CA)
Listening to music at 7 p.m. in Los Angeles typically is a trapped-in-your-car-in-traffic experience. That’s how it was for many trying to make it to this early-evening concert as two movie premieres and one movie premiere protest closed down Hollywood Boulevard by the Knitting Factory. Those fortunate enough to elude the roadblocks, however, were treated [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #33 May-June 2001
Blue Rodeo – Bowery Ballroom (New York City, NY)
Blue Rodeo hits the Bowery Ballroom stage with the jagged aura of a group that has bussed all over the U.S. in recent months (supporting their latest album, The Days In Between), sweeping into New York City on the back of a formidable Nor’Easter. Even the typically sunny Jim Cuddy carries himself with more gravity [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #29 Sept-Oct 2000
John Wesley Harding – The Confessions of St. Ace
What can one reasonably expect from a swashbuckling British expatriate neo-folkie who borrows his stage name from a Dylan record, covers the esteemed work of everyone from Madonna to Nic Jones and, in fact, predicted the late 20th-century reformation of the Fab Four long before technology and unbridled capitalism brought The Beatles Anthology to a [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #20 March-April 1999
John Wesley Harding – Keeping up with the (Nic) Joneses
On the evening of February 26, 1982, returning home from a club gig in Manchester, England, folk singer Nic Jones’ car was involved in a horrific collision with a truck. Breaking almost every bone in his body, the accident also left Jones in a coma from which he would not emerge for several months. And [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #3 Spring 1996
John Wesley Harding – John Wesley Harding’s New Deal
John Wesley Harding’s first album in four years will be a giant sigh of relief for fans of his witty social commentary. While some of his earlier albums were a little slick and shiny for many followers, this disc features a more stripped-down acoustic sound, which allows the songs themselves to move to the forefront. [...]
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