Stephen Mason (musician)

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Steve Mason
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Background information
Born
Stephen Daniel Mason

(1975-07-08) July 8, 1975 (age 50) [1]
Joliet, Illinois, U.S.
Genres Alternative rock, folk, Christian
OccupationsMusician, songwriter
InstrumentsGuitar, vocals
Years active1993–present
Labels Essential/Silvertone, Gray Matters/Nettwerk

Stephen Daniel Mason (born July 8, 1975) [2] is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist for Christian alternative folk rock group Jars of Clay.

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Early life and education

Mason was born in Joliet, Illinois [3] in 1975, however was brought up from age 8 in Decatur, Illinois, where he attended Warrensburg-Latham schools. [4]

Career

Mason joined Jars of Clay as a founding member in 1993 with singer Dan Haseltine and pianist Charlie Lowell while studying at Greenville College in his home state of Illinois. As a submission piece to get into college, Mason wrote an instrumental guitar piece entitled "Frail" which was later recorded and used as the namesake for the group's first demo Frail . The song later had lyrics added by Jars of Clay's lead singer Dan Haseltine for the group's second album Much Afraid .

In 2014, Stephen qualified as a Master Barber and has started cutting hair at his shop, The Handsomizer. [5]

Personal life

Mason married Melissa Mason in late 90’s and has two children. He left Melissa in 2009 to marry former BBC Radio producer Jude Adam on October 24, 2009. [6]

Guitars, amps, and pedals

Mason uses a range of different guitars for performing with Jars of Clay, both electric and acoustic. Some of them he uses exclusively in the studio and others exclusively for live performances. [3]

As for pedals, over the years Mason has been seen using a Boss Tuner, Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde, Swell Pedals G-TOD, Tonephile Puredrive, Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man, DMB Pedals, and a Pedaltrain pedalboard.

References

  1. ↑ Stephen Mason on MSN Music. Retrieved July 23, 2007.
  2. ↑ NSAI Songwriter Achievement Awards. Archived February 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Full name noted. Retrieved August 15
  3. 1 2 Kot, Greg: "Bridges to Babylon". Guitar World Acoustic, No. 25. Retrieved from "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved July 25, 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) on May 13, 2006.
  4. ↑ Mannlein, Arelene: "Relatives of Jars of Clay member – and many, many more – plan to gather". Herald & Review , Decatur, Illinois, Thursday, August 4, 2005, 5:10 PM CDT. Retrieved from [ dead link ]on May 13, 2006.
  5. ↑ The Handsomizer Retrieved October 30, 2015
  6. ↑ Jude Adam Mason – Twitter page
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