Wide Mouth Mason
  • Stew was first released in 2000.

    Remastered for vinyl by Dany Laj in commemoration of Stew’s 20th anniversary.

    Multi-Gold selling and multi-JUNO Award nominated Canadian blues rockers Wide Mouth Mason announce the forthcoming 20th Anniversary reissue of Stew this November 27th, 2020 to be released as a limited edition LP by the band and their management, We Are Busy Bodies. The original album was released by Warner Music Canada and licensed to the band for the anniversary release. 

    “Stew was intentionally Wide Mouth Mason’s funkiest offspring,” original band member Shaun Verreault, along with Safwan Javed, recalls. “It showcased a specific subset of our musical influences, and was a mashup of musical styles passed through the filter of Wide Mouth Mason.”

    “But it was also a case study for Wide Mouth Mason to better understand those musical styles,” Javed adds “We’d been listening to a lot of Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsies, and the like. Meanwhile, our good friend Gordie (Johnson, Big Sugar), who produced it, was hipping us to bands like The Meters and The Gap Band. We dug in and deconstructed the component parts of records that were undeniably funky.”

    Inspired by the tunes and arrangements on those records, Wide Mouth Mason honed in on the audio ingredients to utilize. “Drums that were punchy and taut, almost 808-like, the bass ran simultaneously through a bass amp, and a little guitar amp hanging on for dear life,” Verreault muses. “We made falsetto harmonies — almost like horn parts — a recurring theme, and broadened the sonic palette with some keyboard parts by Gordie, and a string section.”

    “Though we’d plotted a defined sonic mission statement, there was a lot of room for happy accidents and spontaneous invention,” Javed says. “They were fun, funny, joyful sessions.”

    Pre-Order the STEW Vinyl at: We Are Busy Bodies.

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  • In anticipation of Wide Mouth Mason’s eighth album, I Wanna Go With You, that is released digitally through We Are Busy Bodies on October 25, 2019, we have a lyric video for the song “Erase Any Trace” on Wide Mouth Mason’s YouTube channel. Listen to this track on the We Are Busy Bodies soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/wearebusybodies/erase-any-trace

    Pre-Order.
    CD: https://we-are-busy-bodies.myshopify.com/products/wide-mouth-mason-i-wanna-go-with-you-cd-pre-order
    LP: https://we-are-busy-bodies.myshopify.com/products/wide-mouth-mason-i-wanna-go-with-you-pre-order

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  • Wide Mouth Mason’s eighth album, I Wanna Go With You, will be released digitally through We Are Busy Bodies on October 25, with vinyl and CD to come soon after. Vinyl is limited to 300 copies and is colour in colour. It comes with a download code. Digital pre-order coming soon.

    Listen to Erase Any Trace – https://soundcloud.com/wearebusybodies/erase-any-trace

    Pre-Order.
    CD: https://we-are-busy-bodies.myshopify.com/products/wide-mouth-mason-i-wanna-go-with-you-cd-pre-order
    LP: https://we-are-busy-bodies.myshopify.com/products/wide-mouth-mason-i-wanna-go-with-you-pre-order

    I Wanna Go With You Tracklisting

    1. Bodies In Motion
    2. Every Red Light
    3. Some Kind Of Requiem
    4. Anywhere
    5. Erase Any Trace
    6. Only Child
    7. High Road
    8. Modern Love
    9. I Wanna Go With You
    10. Stay For A Couple More
    11. Outsourced
    12. You Get Used To It

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  • Happy Canada Day! While Wide Mouth Mason perform at the Sandfly Festival as part of Canada Day festivities in Medicine Hat, we thought that a great way to celebrate the day would be through an update to our Gigography from Wide Mouth Mason’s gig in Calgary just over a week ago. In addition to the setlist and performance video of “Midnight Rain”, we’ve added an extra performance video from that evening’s performance as well.

    Don’t forget, If you have a gig photos, scanned ticket stubs, gig posters, and other gig-related media that you would be interested in sharing with other Wide Mouth Mason fans via the Wide Mouth Mason Gigography that is always growing (please let us know if we are missing past dates as we are rebuilding our gig lists), contact the Chef de mission!

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  • We’re in the process of changing mailing list mediums. For the Wide Mouth Mason website, there is an option to sign up for site updates as we add content. For major announcements, we have set up an mailing list for when new music is in the offing or tour dates (as opposed to one-off gigs) are being scheduled. To ensure you receive news about major Wide Mouth Mason announcements, make sure you sign up here. Our previous ReverbNation-supported mailing list will be phased out in the near future. New music is definitely coming sooner rather than later (and we hope you love the sound of the new album to come!). In the meantime, we’ll see you on the socials: Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

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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
  • 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
  • Tour Dates
  • WMMedia Kit
  • WMMq&a

Recent WMM news…

  • The Vinyl Re-Issue of STEW
  • Gig Update: Variety Show of Hearts Telethon
  • Site Update: Discography & Lyrics
  • Gig Update: November 1 at Edmonton’s Blues on Whyte
  • New Wide Mouth Mason lyric video for “Erase Any Trace”

WMMpress via The Free Press: Wide Mouth Mason rocks the crowd at Fernival

Interview with Shaun Verreault at Fernie.

  • April 21, 2017
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Press

Source: The Free Press

By Phil McLachlan, The Free Press

Posted: Apr 20, 2017 at 12:00 PM

Legendary 90s Canadian Rock band, Wide Mouth Mason, performed on Saturday during Fernie Alpine Resort’s closing weekend celebrations.

The rock group that has produced 10 albums since 1996, drew a crowd of local followers who have been with them since they began.

Although the band has switched a few members throughout its lifetime, Shaun Verreault continues to perform as the group’s lead singer and guitarist.

Verreault picked up an acoustic guitar as a child, but shortly after hearing Prince knew he had to switch to electric.

The album that skyrocketed them into the speakers of people’s stereos across Canada was their 1997 self-titled album. Now, the band is celebrating 20 years of success.

In that time they have built up an impressive resume, including touring with the Rolling Stones, ACDC, ZZ Top, as well as being the first North-American rock band to tour mainland China.

Twenty years later, the group continues to put maximum enthusiasm into the craft they have mastered.

During the post-show interview, a fan approached and said “I haven’t seen you guys play in a long time, and you’re not mailing it in at all. Great show.”

To this, Verreault responded, “You get to a point in your career where you can be doing it for the sake of still doing it, and making some dough. But for me it’s about progressing as a musician and as a songwriter and playing for people who have been seeing you for a long time or playing for people who haven’t seen you before.”

After a six-year hiatus in 2005, the group produced another album in 2011. Asked if he thought this would be their last album, Verreault said he knew he would be a ‘lifer’.

Since then, Verreault had a daughter, and he didn’t want to be a facetime dad and be gone all the time.

“I really didn’t want to be on the road, watching her first step on facetime,” he said.

At home, with his daughter, he learned a new instrument and wrote a lot of music. So to Verreault, it was time well spent.

Music has given Verreault everything. Through it, he has seen the world, met most of his friends and had out-of-body creative experiences that have taught him how to do everything.

“You learn math, philosophy, structure, perseverance and design. You learn all these things by learning music. It’s given me all of that and more,” said Verreault.

In addition, Verreault believes music is so important in a child’s life, and he will be passing on his knowledge, love and passion to his daughter. In fact, she is already writing music.

“Kids are musical until someone goes, ah no, no, that’s noisy, you’re doing that wrong,” he said.

Verreault has seen many changes between the modern music industry and the ways of old. In the 90s the infrastructure was very different. Bands did not have the independence as they do now. Before, someone outside of the group had the upper hand in much of the decision making. Verreault sees the modern music industry as having excelled in independence. He’s glad bands of today have more of say in the direction they go.

As well, technology has changed tremendously to the point where anyone can record a good idea if they have it.

“If you have a good song idea, you can record it on your phone. So it comes down to how good are your ideas?”

“It was true in the 90s and it’s true now, and it will continue to be true, that no matter what the business is, no matter if you’re getting famous from your demo going out or yourYoutube video getting seen by somebody, if you have a really great song idea, it can change your life,” said Verreault.

Even after ten albums, the group is still pushing forward and is set to release their next album very soon.

“Every time, you’re trying to find a thing you’ve never done before, even if it’s been 20 years.

“You end up in a basement, looking at each other going, alright, what’s the next song going to be? That part of it never changes,” said Verreault.

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