Chris Jones and The Night Drivers in Concert March 8th

Chris Jones & the Night Drivers 

Live at Penny lane Emporium 7:30pm

“When I first heard Chris Jones over 25 years ago he became one of my favorite singers and he continues to have one of the most distinctive and best voices in music period. It’s like fine wine for the ears.” —Jim Lauderdale 

Chris Jones & the Night Drivers make some of the most distinctively elegant yet driving bluegrass music heard anywhere today. Deeply rooted in tradition but never bound to it they deliver original music with tight arrangements emotional authenticity and engaging humor. As actor and banjo player Steve Martin says “Chris Jones’ voice is there with the great masters” adding that the Night Drivers are “some of the best players in bluegrass.”

Collectively Chris Jones & the Night Drivers have won 12 IBMA awards and have racked up 24 #1 songs. The band’s full-length release their first all-original album Make Each Second Last has received rave reviews and yielded an unprecedented eight consecutive #1 songs including the title track “We Needed This Ride.” Their song “Riding the Chief” co-written by Chris and Thomm Jutz was nominated for 2022 IBMA Song of the Year. They have topped both the Bluegrass Today and Roots Music Review airplay charts with the latest album. Their new EP is Pages in Your Hand has also yielded two more #1 songs including the title track.

In July of 2022 they made their debut on The Grand Ole Opry and were soon asked to return.

Chris Jones & the Night Drivers are currently signed to one of bluegrass music’s top record labels Mountain Home Music Company for whom they’ve recorded five critically acclaimed albums. 

Chris Jones & the Night Drivers have become popular repeat performers at major festivals like Merlefest in North Carolina California’s Huck Finn Jubilee and the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield Kansas. They have filled a wide variety of venues around the world touring across the U.S. and Canada and all over Europe including Germany Switzerland the Czech Republic and Ireland.

SONGWRITING: 

Chris Jones’ “Fork in the Road” won the IBMA Song of the Year award in 2007 when it appeared on the Infamous Stringdusters’ album of the same name. Today Chris continues to build on his sparkling career by writing new songs that display solid craftsmanship deep emotion and inventive subject matter. As he has for the past two decades Chris creates original bluegrass music that maintains the highest standards lyrically and musically. He shows that it is possible to write directly from the heart in a way that is authentic to the roots of bluegrass as well as the contemporary world in which he lives. Make Each Second Last is the first band album to feature all material written or co-written by Jones. Bluegrass is fortunate to have such a dedicated talented and tasteful songwriter working in the genre and still at the top of his game. 

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