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Noted musicologist Dr. David Evans is also a first-rate blues performer, and on Sunday, he opened the Southern Comfort Blues Shack at the Beale Street Music Festival, along with Elmo Lee Thomas of...
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Noted Blues Musicologist Dr. David Evans at #jukejointfest
In the crowd in front of Cat Head in Clarksdale, I was thrilled to run into my old musicology professor and mentor Dr. David Evans. he is now partially retired from the University of Memphis, and...
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Three Bluesmen, Clarksdale, Juke Joint Festival 2013
From left to right, Calvin Jackson, Dr. David Evans, Little Joe Ayers, sitting against the wall at Cat Head Delta Blues in Clarksdale during Juke Joint Festival while Robert Kimbrough was on stage...
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Dr. David Evans at the End of Summer Festival at Otha’s Place, Senatobia,...
Dr. David Evans, a professor emeritus at the University of Memphis, is one of the foremost ethnomusicologists in the country, but he is also a talented performer of pre-war blues styles as well.
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Preserving the Hill Country Blues Tradition: Duwayne Burnside Live in Holly...
Think of Mississippi Blues and you are likely to think of the Delta. The long highways and crossroads, the endless flat land, broken only by the occasional bayou, small towns, juke joints and Robert...
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Day 2 of the Otha Turner Picnic at Gravel Springs
The second day of the annual Otha Turner Picnic in Gravel Springs near Senatobia always falls on a Saturday, and brings out a larger crowd. This year, there were performances by Dr. David Evans, the...
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Duwayne Burnside Bringing The Hill Country Blues To Overton Square
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Preserving Endangered Traditions at Day 1 of the Otha Turner Picnic
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