Wide Mouth Mason
  • Happy New Wide Mouth Mason Album Day! Updated the Discography & Lyrics section of the site to add Wide Mouth Mason’s newest album, I Wanna Go With You, that is released digitally on October 25, 2019. Pre-orders for CDs and the limited pressing of LPs are available through We Are Busy Bodies. Tag your social media posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram with #IWGWYxWMM so we can see what you think of the new album!

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  • Wide Mouth Mason performs at Blues on Whyte's 35th Anniversary this November 1, 2019!

    As announced recently on social media, Wide Mouth Mason will be part of the 35th Anniversary celebrations at Edmonton’s Blues on Whyte on November 1, 2019. Tickets are now on sale via ShowPass.

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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

  • 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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  • Thanks to a recent submission of photos by Cher Hunter of Hunter Images, we’ve updated the Gig page from Wide Mouth Mason’s gig in Calgary on June 22, 2019 to include some of the photos Cher took during that performance. We are also delighted to say that there will be more updates to the Gigography section in the near future, as fans have been emailing us their Wide Mouth Mason memories to add to what we may already have or fill in what we’ve been missing!

    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!

  • 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
  • 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)
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Recent WMM news…

  • Site Update: Discography & Lyrics
  • Gig Update: November 1 at Edmonton’s Blues on Whyte
  • New Wide Mouth Mason lyric video for “Erase Any Trace”
  • Wide Mouth Mason’s New Album digitally released on October 25!
  • Site Update: Gigography

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Gig Update: November 1 at Edmonton’s Blues on Whyte

  • October 13, 2019
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Featured · Gigs
Wide Mouth Mason performs at Blues on Whyte's 35th Anniversary this November 1, 2019!

As announced recently on social media, Wide Mouth Mason will be part of the 35th Anniversary celebrations at Edmonton’s Blues on Whyte on November 1, 2019. Tickets are now on sale via ShowPass.

Gig Update: Wide Mouth Mason on Canada Day and then some

  • June 24, 2019
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Gigs · News
Wide Mouth Mason. (left to right): Shaun Verreault. Safwan Javed.

If you missed the soldout Parkland Summerfest gig in Calgary on June 22 but are willing to travel to or within Alberta, there are two more dates this summer to catch Wide Mouth Mason live and hear some of the new tracks coming to a new Wide Mouth Mason album near you! Joining the previously announced Rock Festival date this August in Edmonton is a Canada Day performance at Medicine Hat’s Sandfly Festival. Check out the city’s event page for further details!

Gig Update: Rockin’ the Summer

  • April 24, 2019
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Gigs · News
Wide Mouth Mason. (left to right): Shaun Verreault. Safwan Javed.
2019 Edmonton Rock Music Festival

This August, Wide Mouth Mason will be joining bands at the 2019 Edmonton Rock Music Festival! Tickets (and performance schedule details) for the two day festival are available at the event website, with tickets on sale as of April 29, 2019.

Gig Update: Winter & Wide Mouth Mason

  • September 27, 2018
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Gigs · News
Wide Mouth Mason. (left to right): Shaun Verreault. Safwan Javed.

With the official announcement out, Wide Mouth Mason is excited to announce that they will be joining the 52° North Music and Cultural Festival at the 2019 Canada Winter Games! Experience Wide Mouth Mason performing live along with a number of other fantastic Canadian musicians while the Canada Winter Games are underway. Wide Mouth Mason comes to Red Deer on February 21, 2019, taking the stage for an evening set.

Summertime with Wide Mouth Mason

  • June 23, 2015
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Gigs · News
Wide Mouth Mason. (left to right): Safwan Javed. Shaun Verreault. Gordie Johnson.

Just confirmed are two additional dates for Wide Mouth Mason in Gravenhurst, Ontario on July 30 and Edson, Alberta on August 2. Details to the shows will be added as confirmed. Please check with venue as to confirmed ticket prices and set times.

Rockin’ in the summer…

  • June 9, 2015
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Gigs · News

Wide Mouth Mason is pleased to announce two gigs in Summer 2015. In July, Wide Mouth Mason and Big Sugar put on a 2015 version of Big & Wide in Red Deer, Alberta. Come August, find Wide Mouth Mason rocking the fields near Lake Minnedosa, Manitoba! Details on tour dates will be posted in the next little while once known and confirmed.

WMMpress: More Rainmaker coverage

  • April 30, 2014
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Press

WMMpress via St. Albert Gazette

Big Sugar and Wide Mouth Mason headline Rainmaker Rodeo

 BY ANNA BOROWIECKI, ST. ALBERT GAZETTE APRIL 30, 2014

On the second last weekend of every May, the Rainmaker Rodeo blasts off for three days to remember.

The action starts on Friday, May 23 with a much anticipated rock concert featuring headline rockers Big Sugar and Wide Mouth Mason.

Pat Dower, the rodeo concert chair of the sponsoring St. Albert Kinsmen, is the man behind the scenes who spends hours emailing agents, negotiating contracts and gauging a budget.

And he is pumped for this year’s rock line-up.

Big Sugar just released Yardstyle on April 15 and it’s a slight departure from past albums. The 13-track of percussion-heavy acoustic reggae definitely rocks, but the band shows a different side of their sound.

The collection blends new material with overhauled versions of past cuts in a stripped down acoustic form. Many of the arrangements were inspired by spontaneous jam sessions held on tour buses and backstage.

As vocalist Gordie Johnson said, “This is what we sound like when people aren’t watching. We never rehearse our songs the way they’ll sound at a show. Instead we’ll grab a banjo, a guitar, and just play. This is how we get our groove on.”

Dower, who was privileged to see them perform at an Ontario festival noted, “They’re a pretty active band and they put on a great show. You want to get up off your seat and dance. They’re great to hear and easy to listen to.”

In contrast the Canadian blues-rock band Wide Mouth Mason is in the process of producing their eighth CD. The last one was No Bad Days released in 2011.

Going strong since the 1990s, the rock-blues-soul power trio has opened for heavyweights such as The Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, AC/DC and The Guess Who.

“I’ve never seen them play, but some of our senior members recommended them. They’re a very energetic bunch of guys and we’re excited to have them.”

On the local front, the Morinville-based Canyon Rose Outfit is all fired up to perform their full-throttle combo of rock and roll, psychedelic and blues.

The concert is an 18-plus show. Gates open at 6 p.m. Advance ticket prices are $39.99 plus GST. Gate admission is $59.99 plus GST.

Tickets are available on line at ticketmaster.ca. Fans can save the cost of service fees (about $12) by buying tickets at St. Albert’s Crown & Tower Pub or The Beer Hunter locations.

For additional information visit http://stalbertkinsmen.ca

WMMpress: Rainmaker coverage

  • April 30, 2014
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Press

WMMpress via St. Albert Leader

Big Sugar brings sweet sounds to Rainmaker

 BY GLENN COOK, ST. ALBERT LEADER APRIL 25, 2014

Organizers of this year’s Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition to hear some sweet sounds from their rock lineup.

The St. Albert Kinsmen announced earlier this week that the annual festival’s rock concert will be headlined by Canadian reggae-blues-rock veterans Big Sugar on Friday, May 23, under the big tent at their rodeo grounds on Riel Drive.

They’ll be joined on the bill by fellow Canadian rockers Wide Mouth Mason.

Big Sugar has had a number of members rotate through their lineup since they released their first album in 1991, but the core of the band has remained lead singer/guitarist Gordie Johnson, bassist Garry Lowe and harmonica/saxophone player Kelly “Mr. Chill” Hoppe. Together, they have gained a reputation for being an outstanding live band.

Their breakthrough came in 1995 when they released their album Hemi-Vision, which included such hits as “Diggin’ A Hole,” “Open Up Baby,” and “If I Had My Way.” They followed that up with 1996’s Heated, which included “Better Get Used to It,” “The Scene,” and “Turn the Lights On.”

In 2001, the band released Brothers and Sisters, Are You Ready?, which included “Nicotina,” “All Hell for a Basement,” and a blistering guitar version of “O Canada.” The band also recorded a track-for-track French version of the album for sale in Quebec.

Big Sugar decided to split up and played their last show at the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton on New Year’s Eve 2003. But they reunited in 2010, and released a new studio album, Revolution Per Minute, in 2011. Currently, they are promoting an acoustic album, YardStyle.

Meanwhile, Wide Mouth Mason is a blues-rock band that started in Saskatoon, Sask., in 1995. They are best known for sings like “Midnight Rain,” “Sugarcane,” and “Smile.” Big Sugar’s Johnson started pulling double duty as Wide Mouth Mason’s full-time bassist in March 2011, and also produced their last album, No Bad Days, which was released in July 2011.

The Kinsmen also announced about a week ago that the country concert on Saturday, May 24, will feature Tim Hicks and Michelle Wright.

Tickets for the 18-plus rock show are $39.99 each plus fees and taxes, and are available through Ticketmaster.

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Playing the blue. 
Hung with @christopher_edmonstone and his camera on the weekend and the light was just right. There’s a little black spot on the sun today... Though I’m sliding around here on the Mule, I was gonna try and submit it on a technicality for Tele Tuesday - Andy Summers’ work in The Police was often so teletastic - but I think by Synchronicity he’d mainly switched to his 61 Strat. 
So here, apropos of nothing but this meandering preamble, is a random snippet of police work. Wish me love a wishing well to kiss and tell... a) How wonderful is Terence Trent D’Arby / Sananda Maitreya? 
I wish I could hear him sing live sometime. 
b) How wonderful are @charliehunter67 and @misslucywoodward ? 
I DID get to hear them perform at NAMM last year, and it blew my freaking mind. 
The musicality, the groove, the note choices, the things they chose to do and not to do... and the song choices were surprising and excellent. 
Lucy sings as well as Charlie plays. Think about what that entails, people. Charlie is an alien from planet awesome. And so is Lucy. 
They’re playing St. James Hall in Vancouver tomorrow - with a set list that’ll likely include this here song - and if you’ve not seen/heard, you really, really should. Time travel Tuesday: 
If’n you wanna see where it all started, head on over to the Wide Mouth Mason Facebook page featuring a link to this 1996 mini-documentary. 
Come for the Eddie Vedder does acid with Chris Robinson in a craft tent at folk fest fashion (could they have asked me to wear a bigger shirt? Is there even a bigger shirt than that?) stay for the performances I actually still dig all these years (23?) later. Didn’t have any metal flake handy, but this - from my daughter’s stash of craft supplies - will do nicely.

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