Wide Mouth Mason
  • Wide Mouth Mason will be part of the Guitar Strings and Kidney Things fundraiser in Hamilton, Ontario on October 21, 2023. Check out the venue, Bridgeworks, for further details!

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  • With Wide Mouth Mason in the midst of preparing new music, we’ve taken the time to update our Gigography section with past and future tour dates for 2023 and adding a “to be updated” page for Wide Mouth Mason’s new album LATE NIGHT WALKING, out on September 8, 2023.

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  • This fall, Wide Mouth Mason will be performing at a number of different venues in support of their new music on the new album, Late Night Walking (out on September 8, 2023 but available for pre-order while supplies last).

    • 2023.09.16: Harvest Music Festival @ TD Mojo Tent (Fredericton, New Brunswick)
    • 2023.11.01: Aeolian Hall (London, Ontario)
    • 2023.11.02: Dominion Telegraph (Paris, Ontario)
    • 2023.11.03: Horseshoe Tavern (Toronto, Ontario)
    • 2023.11.04: Neat Cafe (Burnstown, Ontario)

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  • Our new record, Late Night Walking will be released September 8th on vinyl (via We Are Busy Bodies) and wherever you stream songs.

    The first taste, a stompy, chonky blues rocker called You Pushed Me, is out now.
    Go take ‘er for a spin, yeah?

    We made this with Ryan Dahle at his beautiful studio on Mayne Island BC.
    Our big brother Gordie Johnson rode like hell on that bass.

    But wait, there’s more:
    In response to your requests, September 8th we are also reissuing our self titled debut and second record Where I Started on vinyl.

    To pre-order the album, check out our Bandcamp page.

    We are forever grateful for your years of ears.
    We couldn’t be a band without you.
    We’re so excited for you to hear this.
    Turn it up!

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  • About Wide Mouth Mason
  • Contact
  • Discography & Lyrics
    • 1996 – The Nazarene
    • 1997 – Wide Mouth Mason
      • Wide Mouth Mason – My Old Self
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Midnight Rain
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Tom Robinson
      • Wide Mouth Mason – The River Song
      • Wide Mouth Mason – This Mourning
      • Wide Mouth Mason – The Preacherman’s Song
      • Wide Mouth Mason – The Game
      • Wide Mouth Mason – All It Amounts To
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Corn Rows
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Sister Sally
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Tell Me
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Mary Mary
    • 1999 – Where I Started
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Why
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Alone
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Burn
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Companion (Lay Me Down)
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Half A Chance
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Empty Seat
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Crystal Ball
      • Wide Mouth Mason – King of Poison
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Sugarcane
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Where I Started
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Old
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Falling Down
    • 2000 – Stew
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Who’s There
      • Wide Mouth Mason – She’s Alone
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Once You Got It
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Smile
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Bushi Su
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Change
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Watchewan
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Mad Doctor
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Exquisite (It’s Late)
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Sleepwalker
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Breathe Out
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Ease Your Mind
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Fa Na Na
    • 2002 – Rained Out Parade
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Bootleggin’
      • Wide Mouth Mason – My New Self
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Lagavulin
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Rained Out Parade
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Reconsider
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Puppet in a Clown Show
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Come Out To Go
      • Wide Mouth Mason – O.
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Dry You Up
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Alright, Alright
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Always, Never, Only
      • Wide Mouth Mason – My Imagination
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Scratch
      • Wide Mouth Mason – 40 Watt Moon
    • 2005 – Shot Down Satellites
      • Wide Mouth Mason – I Love Not Loving You
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Unfolding
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Everybody’s Right
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Really Wrong
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Phantom Limb
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Shot Down Satellites
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Worse Than Before
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Rust
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Moment That You Came
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Wide Eyed
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Eleven
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Please Go Home
      • Wide Mouth Mason – It’s So Bad
    • 2009 – Live! Montreux, Switzerland
    • 2011 – No Bad Days
      • Wide Mouth Mason – More Of It
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Get A Hold Of You
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Go Tell It To The Waterfall
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Only A Secret If You Keep It
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Drive
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Shut Up And Kiss Me
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Sweet Little Thing
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Only The Young Die Good
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Burn It Down
      • Wide Mouth Mason – Listen Sister
      • Wide Mouth Mason – What’d I Do
      • Wide Mouth Mason – The Night Fell
      • Wide Mouth Mason – When I Fell For You
    • 2019 – I Wanna Go With You
    • 2023 – Late Night Walking
  • Gigography
    • Gigography – 1995
    • Gigography – 1996
    • Gigography – 1997
      • 1997.06.24: Clydes Restaurant and Bar, Pointe-Claire
    • Gigography – 1998
      • 1998.06.23: Barcade, Buffalo
    • Gigography – 2010
    • Gigography – 2011
    • Gigography – 2012
    • Gigography – 2013
    • Gigography – 2014
      • 2014.07.05: Musicfest, Peterborough
      • 2014.07.27: Festival of Beer, Toronto
    • Gigography – 2015
    • Gigography – 2016
    • Gigography – 2017
      • 2017.02.17: Shell Theatre’s Performance Series, Fort Saskatchewan
      • 2017.07.09: Thunder Bay Blues Festival, Thunder Bay
    • Gigography – 2018
      • 2018.07.28: Voyageur Days, Mattawa.
      • 2018.08.15: Station on Jasper, Edmonton
    • Gigography – 2019
      • 2019.06.22: Parkland Summerfest (Calgary, AB)
    • Gigography – 2020
    • Gigography – 2021
    • Gigography – 2022
    • Gigography – 2023
  • Tour Dates
  • WMMedia Kit
  • WMMq&a

Recent WMM news…

  • Wide Mouth Mason in Hamilton, October 21, 2023
  • Site Updates: Gigography and Discography
  • Gig Update: Wide Mouth Mason in New Brunswick and Ontario
  • Late Night Walking out on September 8, 2023; two more albums coming on vinyl!
  • WMMpress via Tinnitist: “Classic Album Review: Wide Mouth Mason | Rained Out Parade”

WMMpress: JulyFest coverage

  • July 14, 2014
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Press

WMMpress via Cranbrook Daily Townsman

Expect your JulyFest loud, Big and Wide

 BY BARRY COULTER, CRANBROOK DAILY TOWNSMAN July 14, 2014

The East Kootenay’s rock event of the summer is taking place this weekend approaching, as two top Canadian rock bands — Wide Mouth Mason and Big Sugar — take the stage Saturday, July 19, at the Kimberley Civic Arena as part of JulyFest celebrations. Expect it loud. Expect to be transported.

Big Sugar, formed by singer, guitar player and producer Gordie Johnson in the late 1980s, are renowned for their heavy blues-rock-reggae stylings, Johnson’s mindbending guitar work, and high volume, marathon concerts.

Wide Mouth Mason draws its style from electric blues, and was last featured in the area opening for ZZ Top in Cranbrook in 2010.

Big Sugar’s Johnson spoke to the Townsman last week, from somewhere on the road, where he and the band usually are. Big Sugar is no stranger to the area. Though this will be their first Kimberley performance per se, the band has played Cranbrook several times, Invermere, Fernie … Johnson is asked if he’s partial to this area.

“Not be to be impartial,” he responds, “but I play everywhere at lot. Big Sugar’s been to Europe twice this year. My other group, Sit Down, Servant!!, has been to Europe once, and we’re going back in the beginning of November. Big Sugar’s going back to Europe at the end of November. We’ve got a cross-Canada toured planned for January and February next year — Man, I play everywhere all the time.

“I thought I might slow down at some point, but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards right now.”

The two bands together can be expected to provide a charismatic display of rock, a perfect capstone for a hot summer Saturday night, and the centrepiece event for the summer party that is JulyFest.

“We call these shows Big and Wide,” Johnson said, “because it’s Big Sugar and Wide Mouth Mason together. And by the time Big Sugar takes the stage we bring all the Wide Mouth Mason guys in us with too, so there’s eight of us on stage.”

It should be noted that the two bands are also old pals.

“I produced a record for them back in 2000,” Johnson said. “And Wide Mouth Mason’s first cross-Canada tour was opening for Big Sugar, back in the mid-90s. They’re like our baby brothers. We’ve always been very close, these two bands.”

The synergy between Big and Wide is only increased by the fact that Johnson is currently serving as Wide Mouth Mason’s bass player, and has done so for the past several years. He was last seen here with Shaun Verreault (lead Vocals, guitar), Safwan Javed (drums), playing bass as they opened for legendary Texas rockers ZZ Top in Cranbrook.

“Their original bass player left the band, and they were kind of in the lurch because they had been offered the ZZ Top tour. I know Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top’s founder, guitarist and vocalist) quite well — and I thought, ‘Man, what a great opportunity for you guys, I’d hate to see you miss it. I’ll try to think of a bass player who can fill in for you.’ And they were like, ‘Uhhh, well, what about you?’ That sounded like a nice way to spend the summer, so I filled in with them for a while, but now it’s been four years! I think I might stick around for a bit.”

So in Kimberley, Johnson will hit the stage with Wide Mouth Mason, play that show, switch immediately to six-string and perform another high octane set with Big Sugar. Does one work a sweat that way?

“It’s pretty natural for me,” Johnson said. “That’s what I do — I play music. For anybody else that might seem excessive or exhausting, but that’s just what I do. It’s the other 20 hours of the day that are exhausting.

“When I’m on bass, that’s where I’m supposed to be, that’s where everything feels just about right.”

In other Big Sugar new, the band has a new album out — “Yard Style.”

“It’s our first all acoustic record,” Johnson said. “There’s about a dozen of us, guys who’ve been in and out of Big Sugar over the years, and other collaborators that we’ve worked with. Songwriters like the guys in the Trews, Meredith Shaw, the Rastas that have been a big influence on us in Toronto.

“All these people in one room, and without really being too aware of the recording process, we just played and sang live. We sat in a circle and recorded about 20 songs, and narrowed it down to the ones that are on the album. But it was a very informal get together, just singing and playing. It was pretty magical recording it, and think it really comes through on that record.”

Big Sugar and Wide Mouth Mason play Kimberley’s Civic Arena Saturday, July 19.

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