The Man With No Shadow (First Edition)

by John Wesley Harding

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tarothfuss Like being reintroduced to an old friend you haven't thought of in a while, with the experience being even better than you anticipated. Favorite track: It Stays.

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The Man With No Shadow First Edition restores the album to Wes's original vision. The audio has been remastered from the original tapes, and the package includes cover art from the original sessions and extensive liner notes. The CD package includes the original album unheard band demos and studio outtakes, all previously unreleased.

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1.	Nothing at All 04:28	info
2.	Negative Love 04:24	info
3.	Monkey and His Cat 04:12	info
4.	Sleeper, Awake 04:51	info
5.	Hard 03:54	info
6.	Pull 03:47	info
7.	Sussex Ghost Story 02:43	info
8.	It Stays 04:01	info
9.	When You Smile 04:01	info
10.	Sluts 03:23	info
11.	She Never Talks 03:57	info
12.	Already Dead 04:34	info
13.	Protest Protest Protest (From Adam’s Apple) 04:05	info
14.	Slippery Slide to Bliss (Out-take) 03:54	info
15.	Negative Love (Demo) 04:25	info
16.	Monkey and His Cat (Demo) 04:04	info
17.	Sluts (Demo) 03:56	info
18.	Sleeper, Awake (Demo) 04:17	info

about

In May 2002, Disney pulled the plug on Mammoth Records just weeks before the June 25th release date of John Wesley Harding’s The Man with No Shadow. No more than 300 hundred journalists received advance CDs of Harding’s new record, while only a handful of radio stations received the single "Negative Love.” No other physical copies existed.

Over the years those advance CDs have fetched untold hundreds of dollars from an eager fan base in search of Wes’ great “lost" album.

Though many - but not all - of the songs ended up on 2004’s Adam's Apple (DRT Records), which All Music Guide called “the finest album of his career,” those that did make the cut were in a jumbled running order.

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released October 2, 2020

2020, Wesley Stace

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John Wesley Harding Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Wesley Stace was born in Hastings in 1965. Since 1988, he has released many albums under the name John Wesley Harding - his most recent, 2018’s Wesley Stace’s John Wesley Harding, with the Jayhawks as his backing band. Stace has published four novels, including the international bestseller Misfortune, and recently co-wrote Mark Morris’ memoir Out Loud. ... more

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The Castle Hotel Manchester

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