Wide Mouth Mason's debut album is available on vinyl for the first time ever. Released in 1997 on Warner Music, the album compiled re-recordings of a self-released album, The Nazarene and new compositions. The new album would be the band's eponymous major-label debut; it was released in 1997 in Canada and the U.S., and a year later in Japan. It established the group's fusion of pop/rock/blues, and yielded the hit singles "Midnight Rain", "My Old Self", and "This Mourning". The album went Gold in Canada and the band was nominated for Best New Group at the 1998 Juno Awards.