David Evans (musicologist)

David Evans is an ethnomusicologist and director of the Ethnomusicology/Regional Studies program at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music in the University of Memphis, where he has worked since 1978.^[1]

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.^[2] He won a Grammy in 2003 for "Best Album Notes" for the CD Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton.^[3]

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);^[4] Needy Times (Inside Sounds, 2007) and Shake That Thing! (Inside Sounds: 2006).^[5]

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

References

1. "Faculty Members". Faculty members. University of Memphis. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
2. "High Water Recording Company discography". Retrieved 2012-08-08.
3. "Past Winners". Grammy.com - Past Winners. The Recording Academy. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
4. "Heavywood recordings catalogue". Retrieved 2012-08-08.
5. "Inside Sounds blues catalogue". Retrieved 2012-08-08.

External links

• Myspace profile
• allmusic profile