Dr. David Evans
 | Born |
| January 22, 1944 in Boston, MA | |
| Active Decades | |
| 19001020304050607080902000 | |
David Evans is a noted blues scholar and musician who has been instrumental in documenting some of the remaining vestiges of traditional blues in Memphis and the surrounding region. Author of Big Road Blues, Evans heads the doctorate program in Ethnomusicology at the University of Memphis.
Born in Boston, Evans came to the blues through the folk revival of the mid-'60s and after seeing such legendary performers as Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, and Sleepy John Estes, he decided to pursue the study of the blues tradition as a career. In 1966, while in graduate school at UCLA, he began making field trips to the south to research and record blues musicians.
In 1970, Evans recorded Bentonia bluesman Jack Owens. The record, It Must Have Been The Devil, was reissued in 1995. He produced Jessie Mae Hemphill's She Wolf (1981) and Feelin' Good (1987), playing rhythm guitar accompaniment on both records.
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Born in Boston, Evans came to the blues through the folk revival of the mid-'60s and after seeing such legendary performers as Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, and Sleepy John Estes, he decided to pursue the study of the blues tradition as a career. In 1966, while in graduate school at UCLA, he began making field trips to the south to research and record blues musicians.
In 1970, Evans recorded Bentonia bluesman Jack Owens. The record, It Must Have Been The Devil, was reissued in 1995. He produced Jessie Mae Hemphill's She Wolf (1981) and Feelin' Good (1987), playing rhythm guitar accompaniment on both records.
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