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.
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.
Growing up in Illinois, Mason is a Chicago Bears football team supporter, but also now supports the Tennessee Titans, who play in his adopted city of Nashville.[3]
He is also a supporter of the Nashville SC soccer club, where he attended its first MLS home match dressed as Moses, resulting in national attention and the club referring to him as "Soccer Moses".[5][6]
In 2014, Stephen qualified as a Master Barber and has started cutting hair at his shop, The Handsomizer.[7]
Personal lifeedit
Mason married former BBC Radio producer Jude Adam on October 24, 2009.[8]
Guitars, amps, and pedalsedit
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.
Referencesedit
^Stephen Mason on MSN Music. Retrieved July 23, 2007.
^NSAI Songwriter Achievement Awards. [1] February 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Full name noted. Retrieved August 15
^ abcKot, Greg: "Bridges to Babylon". Guitar World Acoustic, No. 25. Retrieved from . 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.
^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 [2] on May 13, 2006.
^"Soccer Moses: The story behind Nashville SC's most famous supporter | MLSsoccer.com".
^Maurer, Pablo. "Against all odds, Nashville SC's Geodis Park is 'authentically Nashville'". The Athletic. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
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