David Evans (musicologist)

David Evans ( born January 22, 1944 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American blues musician and researcher.

1961 to 1965 he studied linguistics at Harvard University. During his studies he began to be interested in folk music and began to learn guitar. His interest shifted increasingly to blues and other African-American folk music, and after graduating from Harvard, he enrolled in the folklore and mythology program at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he in 1967 with the MA and 1976 with a Ph.D. completed.

From 1965 he ran until the mid- 1970s, in addition, fieldwork in the southern states, collecting footage and interviews, which formed the basis of musical and appropriate literary publications.

In 1969, Evans taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, he worked as a professor at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at the University of Memphis since 1978, where he built the only ethno- musicological study program with a focus on folk and popular music of the American South.

His best-known book publications are Tommy Johnson from 1971 and a biographical essay on Charley Patton, 1987, the revised slightly in 2001 was republished in the material volume of Charley Patton 's complete works and for whom he in 2003 the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes received. His study " Big Road Blues" from 1982 was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame ( Classics of Blues Literature) 1991.

1979 Evans High Water Recording Company founded.