Wesley Stace On Mountain Stage. April 25, 2014 • Stace is better known to some as John Wesley Harding, the name under which he released 17 albums. The veteran musician and writer performs more ...

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 ...

In February, rocker John Wesley Harding spent five days in San Francisco, where he used to live. But he didn't see any old friends or revisit his favorite haunts. He checked into a homey Market ...

John Wesley Harding left his sometime home in San Francisco a neofolkie, and returned a pop star. Sort of. The maddeningly versatile Brit-turned-city-boy-turned-Seattleite has been all over the ...

John Wesley Harding (bottom left) and the touring company for The Sound of His Own Voice, featuring members of The Decemberists, R.E.M., and The Minus 5. Jason Quigley hide caption ...

So John Wesley Harding has been on the turntable for a few days now and this is a preliminary report. Put together, the whole album is sort of the theme music to Bonnie & Clyde.

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 ...

Harding is Johnny Cash‘s outlaw figure, “he was never known to hurt an honest man” — folk-hero of a different kind, John Wesley Harding — “a friend to the poor.” Call him Robin Hood ...