REVERED AMERICAN GUITARIST
SINGER and SONGWRITER
J O H N W E S L E Y
ON TOUR WITH ALT ROCK BAND
VERTICAL HORIZON
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Wesley’s guitar-driven acoustic and electric songs represent the cultivation of many inspirations — alternative, progressive, art, and classic rock genres intertwined with poignant lyrics drawn from the poetry of the common man. What really appeals to Wesley’s fans worldwide is a spark of sincerity and sensitivity so oft absent in today’s mainstream music. Most recently, John Wesley has performed as sideman, guitarist/vocalist for Vertical Horizon. John Wesley’s professional music career began in the early 1980’s in the Tampa, Florida area where he founded 1991 Southwestern Music Conference’s showcase act Autodrive.
The following year Wesley embarked on a solo career and became the premier opening act for British progressive rockers Marillion on seven consecutive tour legs around the world — especially North and South America, the UK and Europe — where he played for hundreds of thousands of fans. In 1998, Wesley embarked with White Lion frontman Mike Tramp on an extensive tour as premier opening act for the prestigious Peter Frampton/Lynyrd Skynyrd tour. Following this was several world tours as lead guitarist for Scottish neo-prog legend Fish. In 2001, John Wesley was the primary co-writer of Fish’s Fellini Days album. In 2002 he began touring as guitarist and backing vocalist for Porcupine Tree, during the In Absentia world tour and continued his role with the band through Deadwing, Fear of a Blank Planet, and The Incident world tours. He performed in the band for nearly a decade and over 450 shows, culminating in 2010 with sold out performances at Radio City Music Hall and the Royal Albert Hall. In 2011 he performed guitar during Steven Wilson’s North American Grace for Drowning tour.
Throughout 2013, Wesley toured as lead guitarist with Simon Collin’s Sound of Contact to support the Dimensionaut album. In 2014, Wesley toured as guest lead guitarist with Big Elf. Wesley has also toured the U.S. and Europe extensively to support his independent releases – performing as opening act for Marillion, Fish, Porcupine Tree, Sister Hazel, Steven Wilson, Flying Colors, The Winery Dogs, and Blackfield. In 2005, Wesley produced and recorded his fifth studio release, Shiver, co-produced by Mark Prator, and mixed by Steven Wilson of Porcupine tree. In 2011, Wesley partnered with UK native Dean Tidey (Feeder, Muddy Apes), to produce his EP, the lilypad suite.
Wesleys log awaited sixth full-length studio album, Disconnect, was released by Inside Out Music on April 1, 2014, and the follow-up album, a way you’ll never be… was released in late 2016. In 2021, Wesley began touring as a guitarist and backing vocalist for alternative rock band from D.C. Vertical Horizon.
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TOUR 2024
Upcoming Dates
Fri, SEP 20 Thunder Valley Rally
Cottonwood, AZ
Sat, SEP 21 Haute Spot
Cedar Park, TX
Sat, OCT 5 MusicFest El Dorado
El Dorado, AR
Fri, OCT 18 Des Plaines Theatre
Des Plaines, IL
Sat, OCT 19 Homer Stryker Field - Donut & Beer Festival
Kalamazoo, MI
Sun, OCT 20 Flagstar Strand Theatre
Pontiac, MI
Tue, OCT 22 City Winery
Pittsburgh, PA
Wed, OCT 23 Weinberg Center For the Arts
Frederick, MD
Fri, OCT 25 Wolf Den at Mohegan Sun
Uncasville, CT
Sat, OCT 26 Sunfest
Ocean City, MD
Wed, NOV 6 Ardmore Music Hall
Ardmore, PA
Thu, NOV 7 Racket NYC
New York, NY
Fri, NOV 8 Blue Ocean Music Hall
Salisbury, MA
Sat, NOV 9 AURA
Portland, ME
Sun, NOV 10 Empire Live
Albany, NY
Tue, NOV 12 WORKPLAY Theatre
Birmingham, AL
Wed, NOV 13 City Winery
Atlanta, GA
Thu, NOV 14 The Ramkat
Winston-Salem, NC
JOHN WESLEY
Discography
Studio albums
1994 – Under the Red and White Sky
1995 – The Closing of the Pale Blue Eyes [EP]
1998 – The Emperor Falls
2002 – Chasing Monsters
2005 – Shiver
2011 – The Lilypad Suite [EP]
2014 – Disconnect
2016 – A Way You'll Never Be
Studio albums with other artists
With Mike Tramp: Songs I Left Behind: (Guitar on "What If I", "Falling Down"), This & That (But A Whole Lot More): (Guitar on "Wait Not For Me")
With Fish: Fellini Days: (co-writing and recording credits)
With Porcupine Tree (recording credits): In Absentia, Fear of a Blank Planet, The Incident
With Ruud Jolie: For All We Know (lead guitar on "I Lost Myself Today")
With ÚMÆ:Lost in the View: (lead vocals on "Turn Back Time", "Echo", "Running Away")
Compilation
2004 – John Wesley: TEN
Singles
1994 – The Last Light
1995 – Into the Night
1995 – Domino
2003 – Fly Boy
Live releases
1998 – Waiting for the Sun to Shine in Paris
1998 – Wesfest 98
1999 – Starting the Engine II
1999 – WesFest 1999
2000 – The John Wesley Bachelor Party Tour
2002 – The Chicago and Frisco Bootlegs
2006 – Live at Katie Fitzgerald's
2009 – Oxford
2010 – Live at the L'Olympia
2013 – Live at Morrisound 30th Anniversary Show
Vertical Horizon
Discography
Studio albums
There and Back Again (1992)
Running on Ice (1995)
Everything You Want (1999)
Go (2003)
Burning the Days (2009)
Echoes from the Underground (2013)
The Lost Mile (2018)
THE ROCK STAR CHRONICLES
BOOK TRAILER
BOOK REVIEW
-By Literary Titan (5) STARS
The Rock Star Chronicles by Ray Shasho, is a splendid book written by a music enthusiast who has poured their heart and soul into it. It’s a story of a boy who loved rock music, and his obsessive passion of it earned himself the name Rock Raymond. He went to school but instead was schooled in all matters of music while his peers were buried chin-deep in coursework. He then became a radio DJ and has now compiled a book on all interviews he held with Rock gods who raided the airwaves back in the 70s and 80s. It’s a compilation of interviews with outstanding vocalists, legendary guitarists and crazy drummers in the rock music scene. Each interview gives a reader an in-depth view into their personal lives and the philosophies that guide their lives which all serve to humanize these great icons. For readers who are old enough to call themselves baby boomers this book will bring old memories back to life. Millennials, on the other hand, may think of this book as a literal work of the Carpool Karaoke show.
The Rock Star Chronicles is a book I didn’t know I was waiting for. To come across a book that will talk me into trying something new. One brave enough to incite me to venture into new frontiers. This book made me a believer- I am now a bona fide Rock and Roll music fan.
Ray Shasho masterfully gets the interviewees talking. He smartly coaxes answers from them with crafty questions designed to get a story rolling out of them. The artists talk about diverse issues ranging from music, politics, and their social engagements. Having been on the music seen all his life, Ray Shasho knows the buttons to press, how to get them comfortable about talking about their lives.
The book’s cover is befitting of its subject matter with the leather look offering a royal background to the golden letter print. It speaks to how high a level rock music holds in the pecking order- arguably, modern music as we know it has originated from blues and rock music. The second noteworthy thing is the use of high-definition pictures to reference the musician being interviewed in every sub-chapter. This ensures that the book is for both original rock and roll lovers and aspiring new ones. Together is makes for a refreshing and consistently enjoyable read.
I recommend this book to rock music enthusiasts, aspiring musicians wondering what it takes and all readers curious to learn new things by going back in time.
https://literarytitan.com/2020/05/03/literary-titan-book-awards-may-2020/
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