The CD

The Sound of His Own Voice

JWH’s latest album, recorded in Portland, OR, produced by Scott McCaughey and JWH, with a backing band featuring members of the Decemberists, Peter Buck, Rosanne Cash, John Roderick, Laura Veirs, and many others. Thirteen new songs, many among his best since 1837.

Now available on Yep Roc Records.
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The book

Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer

Wesley Stace's third novel: an intellectual thriller set in the world of English classical music in the early years of the twentieth century. A macabre story of the mysterious connections between a critic and a composer, against the backdrop of a turbulent moment in musical history.

A Picador Paperback Original
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News

JOHN WESLEY HARDING’S CABINET OF WONDERS RETURNS TO NYC’S CITY WINERY

RESIDENCY TO FEATURE PERFORMANCES BY LEO ALLEN, FRED ARMISEN, PETER CAREY, GRAHAM PARKER, AMY SOHN, DAN ZANES AND many other Special Guests NPR IS EXCLUSIVE BROADCAST SYNDICATION PARTNER “A vaudeville night that combines music and literature, resulting in one of the finest nights of entertainment this city has to offer.”—The New Yorker  “Inspired silliness…the audience roared in …

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“The Allusive John Wesley Harding” – a course at Central Connecticut State University

    Some of you may feel you’ve been taking this course for years, and it’s nice that someone finally bothered to lay it out. Others may suspect I’ve put this together as an elaborate “Confessions of St Ace”-like hoax But no! This is Professor Gilbert Gigliotti’s course at CCSU and I’d like to thank …

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“In Love with Literacy: A Valentine’s Benefit for Still Waters” 2/9

“In Love with Literacy: A Valentine’s Benefit for Still Waters”
Featuring the music of John Wesley Harding
Keeping the educational door open for children in Bushwick 
Please check out the link for this very worthy cause and event!

This is how the world will end….

  The End   It’ll end with a bang It’ll end with a gun It’ll end with a chorus Then another one It’ll end in ten minutes And too many beers It might struggle on To the end of this year It’ll end with the credits And a copyright sign It’ll end with a ticket …

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Review of Matt Thorne’s PRINCE biography

The Times Literary Supplement kindly gave me permission to reprint my review of Matt Thorne’s Prince biography. An edited version of this piece appeared in the 12/7 edition of the TLS.   Prince by Matt Thorne — Review by Wesley Stace   In the Royal Family of Popular Music, there has been more than one …

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