David Evans (born January 22, 1944)[1] 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, where he has worked since 1978.
He studied at UCLA and began making trips to the southern states in the 1960s to research and record blues musicians.
[5] 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.
[6] He won a Grammy Award in 2003 for "Best Album Notes" for the CD Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton.
[7] Evans has also been performing in the United States and elsewhere, both solo and with the Last Chance Jug Band.