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
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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!

  • 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
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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)
    • Gigography – 2020
  • Tour Dates
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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”

Tag: Shaun Verreault

The Vinyl Re-Issue of STEW

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

Wide Mouth Mason’s New Album digitally released on October 25!

  • September 14, 2019
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Featured · News

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

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: August in Alberta

  • July 20, 2018
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Gigs · News
Wide Mouth Mason. (left to right): Shaun Verreault. Safwan Javed.

718744BC-A505-4F9B-9519-F7E5F0C90CF9Now officially confirmed and announced, August sees Wide Mouth Mason rocking out in Alberta’s capital on August 15 at the Station on Jasper! Contact the Station for further gig details, including tickets, doors, and set times.

WMMpress via TBnewswatch: Bachman wraps up record Blues Fest

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.

  • July 11, 2017
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Press

Source: TBnewswatch

By Leith Dunick, TBnewswatch

Posted: July 10, 2017

THUNDER BAY – When you’re a legend like Randy Bachman, you can pretty much do what you want when you hit the stage.

He’s earned that right.

A founding member of the Guess Who and a driving force behind Bachman Turner Overdrive, the Winnipeg rocker has been entertaining crowds around the world for nearly 60 years.

On Sunday it was Thunder Bay’s turn.

Bachman, 73, delivered a hit-filled 90-minute ride that sent the record-setting Blues Festival home begging for more.

From the opening notes of BTO’s classic Roll on Down the Highway until the music faded on the rock anthem Taking Care of Business, Bachman clearly proved age is just a state of mind.

With the help of his backing band, Bachman delivered a classic-rock hit machine, including Guess Who favourites like No Sugar Tonight, These Eyes and American Woman – which also featured a take on Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love.

BTO favourites Lookin’ Out for No. 1, Let it Ride and a Hey You medley that wove in classic rock staples like AC/DC’s You Shook Me All Night Long, Steve Miller’s Rock’n Me, Rod Stewart’s Hot Legs and the Troggs’ Wild Thing had the crowd lapping up the show, singing along into the Thunder Bay night.

A year after former Guess Who partner Burton Cummings closed out the 2016 Blues Festival, Bachman was the perfect end to a near perfect weekend.

The day began with a pair of local bands, Driven and Dr Buck and the Bluesbangers, who eased the audience into Day 3 and got the blues juices flowing as people began settling into their seats for the day.

Highly rated Jerome Godboo didn’t disappoint, leading into the blues offerings of the 24th Street Wailers and the manic guitar work that Anthony Gomes has become famous for over the years, including previous visits to the Blues Festival.

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.

Big Sugar took over, launched into Diggin’ a Hole, worked their way to If I Had My Way and didn’t look back.

When all was said and done, organizers had pulled off the most successful Thunder Bay Blues Festival yet, an effort worth another round of applause.

Wide Mouth Mason island time (Vancouver Island that is)

  • April 19, 2016
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Gigs · News
Wide Mouth Mason. (left to right): Shaun Verreault. Safwan Javed.

This August 19, 2016, Wide Mouth Mason will be taking part in the Vancouver Island Exhibition. Visit the VIEX website for further details! Tentative show time is 9pm.

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Wide Mouth Mason goes Spanish!

  • April 15, 2016
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Gigs · News
Wide Mouth Mason. (left to right): Shaun Verreault. Safwan Javed.

This summer, Wide Mouth Mason will be visiting Spanish, Ontario’s COME ROCK N ROAR SPANISH music festival on Saturday, August 13, 2016. Tickets for this event, that also features a number of Canadian rock bands, are available through Ticket Break.

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September in Beautiful British Columbia

  • August 28, 2015
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Gigs · News

portalberni20150912Recently confirmed is an upcoming Wide Mouth Mason gig on September 12, 2015 in Port Alberni, British Columbia. Details on the performance will be added to the Tour Dates section of the site as known and confirmed. As always, please check with the venue as to doors 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: Saskatoon Show coverage

  • September 24, 2014
  • by Wide Mouth Mason
  • · Press

WMMpress via Saskatoon StarPhoenix

WMM can’t wait for hometown club show

 BY CAM FULLER, THE STARPHOENIX September 23, 2014

In a convenient twist of reverse engineering, it’s Wide Mouth Mason’s 2009 album that is setting the tone for how the band is charting its future sound.

Live at Montreux captured the band sizzling in jam mode at the legendary jazz festival, with expansive solos and improvisations. The same approach informed Wide Mouth Mason’s No Bad Days album.

“It was very much a rock format but with a jazz philosophy to it where the framework of the song would be a suggestion,” guitarist Shaun Verreault said recently.

“The songs on No Bad Days are meant to be elastic, so a lot of that can come out.”

The band likes to keep things fluid in its live show. If something from a song they were listening to on the way to a gig sticks, it could well end up as a reference in the middle of their set – surprising each other as much as the audience.

“We call it the shapes we’re throwing each other,” says Verreault. “There’s a little bit of trying to raise eyebrows that you haven’t raised before.”

Verreault admits wondering if the band would remain viable after he and drummer Safwan Javed parted ways with original bassist Earl Pereira and added Gordie Johnson from Big Sugar. But the evolution continues. When Wide Mouth and Big Sugar are on the same bill, they become Big and Wide, with as many as eight players on stage.

Verreault keeps busy in music producing other artists, writing songs with and for other acts and collaborating coast-to-coast from Vancouver with Newfoundland musician Chris Kirby via Skype.

“It makes it so we have a lot of different things to draw on when we get together to play and get together to write.”

Verreault is looking forward to the homecoming and doing a classic Saskatoon club show, its first at the Capitol Music Club.

“I try and get back as much as I can. A bunch of my family is still there.”

He likens it to looking through the window of your elementary school, literally or metaphorically.

And speaking of family, Verreault’s two-year-old daughter Layla seems to have inherited some musical DNA. She already has her own pink Stratocaster, but she really likes playing with her dad’s guitar. Recently, she plugged it into an amp on full blast and, in Verreault’s words, “just railed it.” He thought she’d be scared and crying. Instead, “she was jumping up and down, smiling, and going ‘loud!’”

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