Wesley Stace

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Darren Lumbroso

April 14, 2022 Darren Lumbroso 1

In 1984 I discovered Elvis Costello. I quickly sought out his back catalogue. However, there was a problem. I couldn’t get my head around ‘Almost Blue’, his 1981 album of country covers. Aptly enough the album […]

Cash, Ritter and Louris contribute to John Wesley Harding covers album

March 30, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

Update: The Headline to this article originally named Jason Isbell as contributor – we meant Josh Ritter. Apologies for our wishful thinking and getting anyone’s hopes up. What started one year ago as an innocent social […]

Songs for the apocalypse: John Wesley Harding “God Lives Upstairs”

June 18, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Many years ago when I lived in Sydney I used to sometimes go down Pitt Street which had some now long-forgotten record stores which would flog off albums for next to nothing, so pre-the days of […]

Josh Ritter and Gary Louris appear on Wesley Stace covers project

May 15, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

What started as an innocent social media game in which Facebook friends and fans listed artists they would like to cover Wesley Stace AKA John Wesley Harding’s vast catalogue of songs, became a reality with the […]

Wesley Stace and the Jayhawks release another preview track of album – Listen

February 3, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

This is one we’re really looking forward to – the new album by Wesley Stace “featuring the Jayhawks” is out 3 weeks today on the Yep Roc label if we’re all still here, and they’ve released […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers