Here Comes the Groom (album) explained

Here Comes the Groom
Type:Studio
Artist:John Wesley Harding
Cover:Here Comes the Groom (album).jpg
Released:January 5, 1990
Recorded:July 1989
Studio:Eden Studios, Chiswick
Length:64:31
Label:Sire
Producer:Andy Paley[1]
John Wesley Harding
Tom Robinson
Prev Title:God Made Me Do It: The Christmas EP
Prev Year:1989
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Next Year:1991

Here Comes the Groom is an album by folk-rock singer John Wesley Harding, released in 1990.[2] Harding called the backing band the Good Liars. It included Pete Thomas and Bruce Thomas of the Attractions. Not surprisingly, Here Comes the Groom has a feel similar to classic Elvis Costello. Harding's articulate and biting vocal delivery, also reminiscent of Costello, retains a good dark sense of humor.[3]

Critical reception

The Chicago Tribune wrote: "Possessed of an appealing, folky sensibility, Harding takes a musical approach that falls somewhere between folk and rock and manages to be lyrically offbeat enough of the time to make him one of the more interesting new talents around." Trouser Press called the album "a fine modern realization of the same honest singing and playing that typified England’s pub-rock graduates."[4]

Track listing

All songs were written by John Wesley Harding; except as noted

  1. "Here Comes the Groom"
  2. "Cathy's New Clown"
  3. "Spaced Cowgirl"
  4. "Scared of Guns"
  5. "You're No Good"
  6. "When the Sun Comes Up"
  7. "The Devil in Me"
  8. "An Audience with You"
  9. "Dark Dark Heart"
  10. "Same Thing Twice"
  11. "Affairs of the Heart"
  12. "Nothing I'd Rather Do" (Andy White, David Lewis, Harding)
  13. "Things Snowball" (with Peter Case) (Peter Case, Harding)
  14. "The Red Rose and the Briar" (David Lewis, Harding)
  15. "Bastard Son"

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: A 'GROOM' TO CALL HIS OWN. Tampa Bay Times.
  2. Web site: NIGHT LIFE : THE CLUB SCENE : A Folk Vision : John Wesley Harding is on a tour, peddling his songs, humor and tall tales.. May 31, 1990. Los Angeles Times.
  3. Allmusic review:
  4. Web site: John Wesley Harding . Trouser Press . 12 October 2020.

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