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(Paris Expat Soirée. Meet New People.)
Sunday 25 September
2016 at 19h15
David Evans
American Blues Star, Scholar And Author
"American Doctor of the Blues": Music. Experiences.
David Evans has
been a performer (blues vocal and guitar) since the 1960s. He has
played at
concerts and festivals throughout the United States and toured over
fifty times
as a solo performer and/or accompanist in twenty-two countries of
Europe, South
America, and Africa.
David has performed and/or
recorded with Alan Wilson (later
of Canned Heat), Van Zula Hunt, Hammie Nixon,
Jessie Mae Hemphill, Johnny
Shines, and Robert Belfour.
In Memphis and the Mid-South he performs with the
Last Chance Jug Band and recorded a CD, Shake That Thing, with
them in
1997. He also recorded the solo CDs Match Box Blues in 2002, Needy
Time in 2007, Live at “Alte Post” in 2012, and Under
the Yam Yam
Tree in 2013.
Most of his style and repertoire were learned from artists
with whom he has been associated through fieldwork and touring.
Evans has
produced over fifty LP’s and CD’s of field and studio recordings and
has
written liner and booklet notes for over eighty others.
In 2003 he received a Grammy Award for “Best
Album Notes.” He is also the editor for the “American Made Music”
series of
books for the University Press of Mississippi and the “Deep River of
Song”
series of CD’s for Rounder Records of field recordings of African
American folk
music by John and Alan Lomax.
Evans has lectured throughout the United States
and in thirteen foreign countries. He has been a consultant for a
number of
museums, exhibits, programs, festivals, radio, television, film, and
video
productions.
David Evans is the
author of Tommy Johnson (London: Studio Vista, 1971), a study
of the
life and music of a folk blues singer,
and Big Road Blues: Tradition and
Creativity in the Folk Blues (Berkeley: University of California
Press,
1982; paperback reprint, 1987), both based upon his fieldwork.
More recently,
he has authored (with John Minton) “The Coon in the Box”: A Global
Folktale
in African-American Tradition (Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum
Fennica,
2001) and The NPR Curious Listener’s Guide to Blues (New York:
Perigee,
2005), and edited Ramblin’ on My Mind: New Perspectives on the Blues
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008).
Evans has also written many
journal articles and book chapters on various aspects of blues, African
American folk music, and musical instruments, including major
biographical
studies of Bukka White, Charley Patton, and Blind Willie McTell. He has
also
contributed many entries to encyclopedias, dictionaries, and handbooks,
including
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Encyclopedia
of Southern Culture, International Dictionary of Black Composers,
Encyclopedia
of American Folklore, Handbook of American Folklore, The
Blackwell Guide to Blues Records, American National Biography,
Black
Women in America, The Blues: A Bibliographical Guide, Garland
Encyclopedia of World Music, American Musical Traditions, The
Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music, Encyclopedia of
Popular
Music of the World, and Encyclopedia of African American
Folklore.
As a
student of Classical languages at Harvard University (1961-65), Evans
became
interested in American folk music by listening to recordings and
hearing
traditional performers at coffee houses and concerts. He soon began
learning
guitar and performing in coffee houses. His interest in folk music
gravitated
toward blues and African American folk music, and he began interviewing
folk
blues performers who came through Cambridge on tours.
After graduation from Harvard, Evans
enrolled in the Folklore and Mythology graduate program at the
University of
California, Los Angeles, receiving the M.A. degree in 1967 and the
Ph.D. in
1976. Beginning in 1965, he did fieldwork in southern states for
periods of
several weeks at a time over the next dozen years, collecting hundreds
of hours
of recordings and interviews that have resulted in many publications
and record
albums of blues and other types of African American folk music.
He has also
compiled over the years a record collection of 78’s, 45’s, LP’s, and
CD’s of
folk, popular, and ethnic music that comprises over thirty thousand
items.
Evans began
teaching in the Anthropology Department at California State University,
Fullerton, in 1969. In 1978 he joined the faculty at Memphis State
University
(now The University of Memphis) and has since then been Professor of
Music
there. He received a First
Tennessee professorship for 2006-2009 and the Willard R. Sparks Eminent
Faculty
Award in 2007. In 2011 he was a
Fulbright Senior Specialist at Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia.
David Evans will
have books and recordings available for purchase.
Please visit: ; http://www.myspace.com/uncledavidevans
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