David Evans (musicologist): Difference between revisions

David Evans is a ethnomusicologist and director of the Ethnomusicology/Regional Studies program at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music in the University of Memphis, where he worked since 1978

As head of the university's High Water Recording Company, he made numerous recordings of performers in the Memphis area, some of whom were not previously documented. He has written or edited a number of books on the blues, alongside music releases' liner notes and booklets. He won a Grammy in 2003 for "Best Album Notes" for the CD Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues - The Worlds Of Charley Patton.

Evans has also been performing in the US and elsewhere, both solo and with the Last Chance Jug Band. His discography includes Match Box Blues (Inside Sounds, 2002); I didn't Know about You (Heavywood, 2005); Needy Times (Inside Sounds, 2007) and as player in Shake That Thing! (Inside Sounds: 2006).

Published work

• Tommy Johnson (London: Studio Vista, 1971)
• Big Road Blues: Tradition and Creativity in the Folk Blues (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982)
• The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to the Blues (New York: Perigee, 2005)

Further reading

• Evans, David (bio), entry by Jack T. Cooper. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore, Anand Prahlad (author/editor) Vol. I, A-F (Greenwood Press, 2005) ISBN 0-313-33036-0

External links

• Myspace profile
• allmusic profile