Wesley Stace was born in Hastings, Sussex, in 1965, and educated at the King’s School, Canterbury, and Jesus College, Cambridge. He released 17 albums under the name John Wesley Harding, before reverting to his birth name for 2013’s Self-Titled. The most recent collection of his own songs, Wesley Stace’s John Wesley Harding, was recorded with The Jayhawks and released by Yep Roc in 2017. He has also published four novels.