David Evans is a well-known musicologist specializing in country blues and related genres of African American Southern music. He is director of the Ethnomusicology/Regional Studies doctoral program of the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at the University of Memphis, and has authored numerous books on the Southern Blues idiom.
Evans has made numerous field recordings of blues, gospel and folk musicians, many of which are highly sought by collectors. He also performs as a blues guitarist and vocalist.

b.: Jan. 22, 1944 in Boston, MA