David Evans (born January 22, 1944)
[ Dr. David Evans]
''Allmusic
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''. Retrieved 24 September 2016 is an American
ethnomusicologist and director of the Ethnomusicology/Regional Studies program at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music in the
University of Memphis
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The University of Memphis (UofM) is a public research university in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded in 1912, the university has an enrollment of more than 22,000 students.
The university maintains the Herff College of Engineering, the Center for Ea ...
, where he has worked since 1978.
Life and career
He was born in
Boston
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,
Massachusetts
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, United States. He studied at
UCLA
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and began making trips to the
southern states in the 1960s to research and record blues musicians. He recorded the singer
Jack Owens in 1970 and later produced records for
Jessie Mae Hemphill and other blues musicians.
[ His research work in the Deep South was mentioned extensively in Robert Palmer's tome, ''Deep Blues''.
As head of the University of Memphis'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 and has written ]liner notes
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Origin
Liner notes are desc ...
and booklets for various music releases. He won a Grammy Award
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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 United States 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 ''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
* Cooper, Jack T. (2005). "David Evans". '' The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore''. Anand Prahlad, ed. Vol. 1, A–F. Greenwood Press. .
References
External links
Myspace profileAllMusic profile
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1944 births
Living people
American musicologists
American anthropologists
American blues singers
American blues guitarists
American male guitarists
Grammy Award winners
University of Memphis faculty
20th-century American guitarists
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American guitarists
21st-century American male musicians