In the early '90s, charming folk-pop troubadour John Wesley Harding looked like a star in the making. Finding a comfort zone between the wry absurdism of Robyn Hitchcock and the bold expressiveness of ...

John Wesley Harding is a very smart fellow. His first novel will be published next spring by Little, Brown (under his birth name, Wesley Stace). His new album, "Adam's Apple," builds one song from ...

The people of El Paso breathed a sigh of relief Aug. 19, 1895, at the news of the death of John Wesley Hardin at the Acme Saloon. One hundred and fifty years after his death, Hardin, rumored to have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Wesley Hardin was one of the most violent figures of a violent age. Born in Bonham to a Methodist preacher in 1853, he ...

John Wesley Hardin was one of the most violent figures of a violent age. Born in Bonham to a Methodist preacher in 1853, he quickly moved to a life of crime. By the time he was 18, he killed perhaps ...

During much of the 90s it was common–and not entirely unfair–to knock John Wesley Harding as a B-grade Elvis Costello. Their voices sounded uncannily alike, they had a similar taste for wordplay-laden ...

I'm wrong about everything," John Wesley Harding sings on The Confessions Of St. Ace, his first album for yet another label. "I think you'll like our song, but I'm wrong." But you can't be wrong all ...

John Wesley Harding may have taken his name from Bob Dylan's 1968 album John Wesley Harding, but Awake sounds like he's been spending time listening to Dylan's mortality-minded 1997 album Time Out Of ...

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