# Stephen Mason

Steve Mason (born Stephen Daniel Mason, July 8, 1975) is an American musician most known for being the lead guitarist for Christian alternative folk rock group Jars of Clay. == Biography == Mason was born in Joliet, Illinois in 1975, however was brought up from age 8 in Decatur, Illinois where he attended Warrensburg-Latham schools.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.