Dave Evans
Biography
Dave Evans is one of a select group of bluegrass banjo pickers whose careers have primarily involved leading their own bands. He is not to be confused with a stream of other Dave Evans such as the British guitar fingerpicker from the '70s or U2's guitarist The Edge, whose real name is Dave Evans. Even a charming story of how the banjoist became interested in bluegrass is fraught with the danger of mistaken identity: Evans' mother bought a banjo for his father, whose name was Bill Evans--but this is not the jazz pianist of great fame who was sitting in front of the little tot, framed by the branches of a Christmas tree, picking on an old Silvertone.
Evans had already been fooling with the accordion yet it was the banjo that became that certain special interest that children seek as they grow up, not to mention their parents who might be trying to keep them out of juvenile detention. From this beginning the Evans biography already differs from that of many other contemporary banjoists, who almost as a unit select Earl Scruggs as the man who introduced them to the banjo, not not their dads. Evans also developed a knack for singing while playing a banjo, a form of musical expression that many other pickers have been content to leave to the rhythm guitarist/frontman dude.
Selected Discography
Pretty Green Hills
2006
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