This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Judging by their sophomore major-label CD, you’d never guess that this journeyman blues-rock trio got their start in Saskatchewan.
Much if not most of Wide Mouth Mason’s Where I Started aims due south of the Mason-Dixon Line, straight into the heart of Black Crowes territory. And WMM’s skillful interweaving of wah-wahing, guitar-funk and scrappy, acoustic Americana has enough heart and soul to put them on the road to the top. After a few more years — when the riffs are a little bigger, the hooks a little sharper, the lyrics a little stronger and the voices a little more seasoned — they’ll go all the way.
