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!

    Gordie Johnson new album new vinyl album Safwan Javed Shaun Verreault vinyl wide mouth mason
  • About Wide Mouth Mason
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  • 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
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  • 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”

Posts By Wide Mouth Mason

Wide Mouth Mason in Hamilton, October 21, 2023

  • August 28, 2023
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Featured · Gigs · News · Performances
Wide Mouth Mason. Photo Credit: Justin Broadbent.

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!

Site Updates: Gigography and Discography

  • August 18, 2023
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Featured · Site Updates
Wide Mouth Mason. Photo Credit: Justin Broadbent.

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.

Gig Update: Wide Mouth Mason in New Brunswick and Ontario

  • August 17, 2023
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Featured · Gigs · News
Wide Mouth Mason. Photo Credit: Justin Broadbent.

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)

Late Night Walking out on September 8, 2023; two more albums coming on vinyl!

  • June 2, 2023
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Featured · News

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!

WMMpress via Tinnitist: “Classic Album Review: Wide Mouth Mason | Rained Out Parade”

They turned the stage over to a pair of rockers, Wide Mouth Mason getting funky with covers of Prince’s Raspberry Beret and David Bowie’s Modern love among their repertoire.

  • September 1, 2022
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Press

Source: Tinnitist

By Darryl Sterdan

Posted: August 30, 2022

This came out in 2002 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):


Q: Whaddaya get when you combine a bluesy slide guitar, a funky backbeat, a reggae bassline, vocals straight out of Sgt. Pepper, dub production and an electronica beatbox? A: One of the most striking songs I’ve heard lately — Come Out To Go, the spectacular, genre-busting centrepiece of Wide Mouth Mason’s fourth album Rained Out Parade.

That infectious four-minute slice of cultural cross-pollination may be the most eclectic track this talented trio have ever recorded. But it’s hardly out of place on this inspired and adventurous album. The 14-cut Rained Out Parade finds the Masons moving light-years beyond their Prairie blues-rock roots, augmenting their catchy melodies, soaring vocals, breakup-song lyrics and powerful performances with everything from futuristically cutting-edge production to earthy Indian tabla. Like Come Out To Go, a lot of the combinations shouldn’t work on paper — but they invariably (and usually inexplicably) do, confirming Rained Out Parade’s status as the most creative and distinctive disc of Wide Mouth Mason’s career. These boys deserve a parade.

Site Updates: Gigography

  • August 31, 2022
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Gigs · News · Site Updates

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 from 2021 and 2022. For the years prior to 2021, please contact us to provide us with your concert memories that are not yet listed!

As for upcoming gigs, there are two in September 2022 to look forward to!

  • 2022.09.04: Saanich Fair (Saanichton, British Columbia)
  • 2022.09.10: Southside Shuffle @ Memorial Park Festival Grounds (Port Credit, Ontario)

Gig Update: Southside Shuffle, September 10, 2022

  • August 10, 2022
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Gigs · News · Performances

Wide Mouth Mason’s set begins at 8pm at the Southside Shuffle, part of the 24th Annual Port Credit Blues and Jazz Festival located at the Memorial Park Festival Grounds in Port Credit (32 Stavebank Road, Port Credit, ON).

Gig Update: Saanich Fair, September 4, 2022

  • August 10, 2022
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Gigs · News · Performances

Wide Mouth Mason takes the stage at 8pm at the Saanich Fair on September 4, 2022 (1528 Stellys Cross Road, Saanichton, BC V8M 1S8).

The Vinyl Re-Issue of STEW

  • August 25, 2020
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · News
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.

Gig Update: Variety Show of Hearts Telethon

  • January 11, 2020
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Gigs · Performances

Wide Mouth Mason will be taking part in the 54th Annual Variety Show of Hearts Telethon airing on Global BC from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm on Sunday, February 9, 2020. Call 310-KIDS (in BC) or donate online at variety.bc.ca to help kids in BC with special needs.

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