September 12, 2024 — Chris Jones & The Night Drivers have released a music video for their latest single, “What If You’re Wrong,” after a premiere by Bluegrass Today.
The song sees the singer-songwriter-guitarist asking a pointed yet disarmingly framed question. Served up with characteristic restraint, “What If You’re Wrong”loses no time in diving into its topic.
Following a bluesy, faintly ominous opening figure that establishes the song’s mid-tempo gait, Jones addresses an unseen figure’s prediction that the world is coming to an end on a date certain, setting up the chorus’s titular question:
What if you’re wrong, will you admit it?
Or will you dig deeper in it
Even further down in the rabbit hole?
What if you’re wrong?
Yet while the subject of conspiracy theories is serious, the lighter side remains apparent throughout, as a second verse offers increasingly far-fetched speculation:
There’s chem trails in the skies, false flags everywhere
The President’s a hologram and no one even cares
“Jon Weisberger and I co-wrote the song as a conversation with a conspiracy theorist,” recalls Jones. “It’s meant to be a light-hearted look at the subject — I’m pretty sure it’s the first bluegrass song to mention chem trails! — but it does ask a serious question: when something earth-shaking is predicted, whether it’s the end of the world, a change of government, or just the results of a major ballgame, what do you do when it doesn’t happen? Do you question your sources or double down? We have so much of this in the era of social media and different realities we live with, it seemed pretty timely, and we had fun with it.”
Watch the video for “What If You’re Wrong” below and listen to it wherever you stream music, HERE.
About Chris Jones & The Night Drivers
Whether it’s in the studio or on stage, Chris Jones & The Night Drivers are making some of the most distinctively elegant yet driving music to be heard anywhere today, and they’re delivering it with a unique blend of dry wit, emotional authenticity and broad humor that’s won the loyalty of a growing number of fans across the country, from MerleFest in North Carolina to California’s Huck Finn Jubilee, and around the world.
Steve Martin referred to the Night Drivers as “. . . some of the best players in bluegrass! Chris Jones’ voice is there with the great masters.” Americana artist Jim Lauderdale said of Chris, “He continues to have one of the most distinctive and best voices in music, period.”
The band — which is Mark Stoffel on mandolin, Grace van’t Hof on banjo and ukelele and Marshall Wilborn on bass — is led by Chris’ soulful lead-singing, songwriting, and solid rhythm and lead guitar. Chris boasts extensive performance credits as a sideman with artists like Lynn Morris, Vassar Clements, Special Consensus, Dave Evans, Earl Scruggs, and the acclaimed Irish band The Chieftains.
Altogether, members of Chris Jones & The Night Drivers have won more than a dozen IBMA awards and have recorded more than ten #1 songs. The Night Drivers also bring name recognition in related fields, as bluegrass fans are well-familiar with Jones for his award-winning work as a SiriusXM DJ, on both Bluegrass Junction and Willie’s Roadhouse.