• Barnyard Funk video from Mark Stoffel

    Mandolinist Mark Stoffel, he of Chris Jones & The Night Drivers, has put together a fun little video for his current Mountain Home Music single, Barnyard Funk. This clever instrumental from Mark's imagination combines bluegrass improv with a funk groove, and

  • Barnyard Funk from Mark Stoffel

    Mandolinist Mark Stoffel, who currently plies his trade as a member of Chris Jones & The Night Drivers, has a new single dropping tomorrow from Mountain Home Music, an instrumental he calls Barnyard Funk. It's a clever little tune in which

  • Curious Times from Mark Stoffel

    Mandolinist Mark Stoffel is the focus of the latest single released by Mountain Home Music. The German-born musician has been a member of Chris Jones & The Night Drivers this past 16 years, and is not only a gifted and agile

  • Mark Stoffel to Mountain Home Music

    Mountain Home Music Company has announced the signing of mandolinist Mark Stoffel to the label, with a solo project release planned for later this year. Mark has been the mando man with Chris Jones & The Night Drivers for more than

  • Welcome Mark Stoffel to the USA!

    This post is a contribution from Mark Stoffel, mandolinist with Chris Jones & the Night Drivers. It was written following his naturalization as an American citizen last week. As we look past this year's extremely divisive election, it may do

  • Live album coming from Chris Jones

    Live At The Old Feed Store will be the next release from Chris Jones & the Night Drivers. Recorded on two successive nights in Cobden, IL during the summer of 2013, it is due to hit October 7. Often live albums are trotted out

  • Chris Jones at The Station Inn

    Wednesday night, Chris Jones & the Night Drivers held forth at the Station Inn in Nashville to celebrate the release of their new Rebel CD, Lonely Comes Easy. Fortunately, we had a photographer on hand to capture the event, our Sales

  • In lieu of… Chris Jones

    Since Chris Jones is touring in Europe this week with his band, The Night Drivers, and therefore shirking his weekly column for Bluegrass Today, here is some video of the boys at the Garchinger Bürgerhaus in Munich this past weekend. The song