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Mountain Home signs Chris Jones & the Night Drivers

Wednesday, October 1, 2014 – Chris Jones & the Night Drivers signed a record deal with Mountain Home Music, it was announced Wednesday.

The band will head into the studio soon to work on a second-quarter 2015 release.

"We've been very impressed by the quality of Mountain Home's roster and the strong record of results they've achieved in bluegrass music and beyond," Jones said. "We're extremely excited about this opportunity to join the Mountain Home family."

Jones formed the quartet in 1995. Night Drivers bass player Jon Weisberger is a recipient of 3 IBMA awards himself, including its inaugural Songwriter of the Year title, and is currently Chairman of the IBMA's Board of Directors. Banjo player Ned Luberecki is a Bluegrass Junction. Mandolin player Mark Stoffel a German native, is a professor of media at Southern Illinois University.


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CD review - Made to Move There's a low-key elegance to the music of Chris Jones, which sometimes takes his bluegrass tunes to unexpected places while remaining firmly in the wheelhouse of his chosen genre. Jones and the Night Drivers explore folk and blues directions alongside more traditional tones. As a songwriter and singer, Jones' forte is quiet, contemplative songcraft such as "Raindrops Fell," a story of destinies entwined and the Civil War era tale of sacrifice and community in "Old Bell. ...
CD review - Run Away Tonight The ongoing, if pyrrhic, battle for the soul of bluegrass, rages among newgrass, traditional, jamgrass, browngrass and flavors in between. Chris Jones and the Night Drivers are neo-traditionalists: they follow the Monroe bluegrass form (two instrumentals per album, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, bass and banjo), but infuse it with a current Nashville sensibility that strikes a clever balance. Calling Chris Jones and The Night Drivers neo-traditionalist is not damning with faint praise; rather, it ...
CD review - Live at the Old Feed Store What is a band to do between studio recordings? If you are Chris Jones & the Nightdrivers, you return to a comfortable haunt-in this case, The Old Feed Store in Cobden, Ill., and just let the (digital) tape roll. You include audience favorites - mandolinist Mark Stoffel's rendition of "Edelweiss," paired with "Forked Deer" and banjoist Ned Luberecki's 'perfect bluegrass song' "Cabin of Death" - and some songs recorded long ago - "I'm ...


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