John Wesley Harding - Summer Single

What this video is

Released in 1993 as the lead track of 'Pett Levels – The Summer EP,' John Wesley Harding's final Sire Records release, 'Summer Single' arrived during the peak of the alternative era when MTV and college radio briefly elevated literate, acoustic-leaning artists. Harding (born Wesley Stace, Hastings, England, 1965) occupied a critically acclaimed but commercially marginal niche: an English folk-pop songwriter…

Why it matters

Represents the critically valued but commercially overlooked strand of early-90s alternative folk-pop operating within Sire's eclectic American roster. Harding's work bridged British folk-rock traditions and American college-rock sensibilities, and 'Summer Single' is a rare instance of meta-pop…