Name
His given name, Wesley, comes from John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, who preached one of his last sermons in the town where Harding was born.
His stage name is the same as the Bob Dylan 1967 album (and song) John Wesley Harding, for which he misspelled the outlaw John Wesley Hardin's name, adding a final 'g'.
Read more about this topic: John Wesley Harding (singer)
Famous quotes containing the word name:
“Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore than name. Are they all alike. I think so.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“What is it? a learned man
Could give it a clumsy name.
Let him name it who can,
The beauty would be the same.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)