Here Comes the Groom by John Wesley Harding

Here Comes the Groom is John Wesley Harding's 1990 album on Sire, the stage name of English songwriter Wesley Stace. Andy Paley produced, and the backing band Harding dubbed the Good Liars had real pedigree: Pete Thomas and Bruce Thomas, both of the Attractions.

With those two in the room, the comparisons to vintage Elvis Costello write themselves, and Harding doesn't run from them. The songs are wordy, tuneful folk-rock with a snarl, sung in a sharp, cutting voice that bites down on every clever line, and a pitch-black sense of humor runs through the whole thing. "Cathy's New Clown" is the one that stuck on the countdowns.

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