- Irish Reels, Jigs, Hornpipes & Airs · 1979
- Fingerpicking Guitar Delights · 1974
- Irish Reels, Jigs, Hornpipes & Airs · 1979
- Sad Pig Dance · 1974
- Enchanted Way · 2010
- Sad Pig Dance · 1974
- Sad Pig Dance · 1974
- Sad Pig Dance · 1974
- Fingerpicking Guitar Delights · 2005
- Baltimore On Tap/Baltimore's Best Blues Bands · 2003
- Irish Music: The Woman from Tuam · 1997
- Songs of Love: Pop, Vol. 110 · 2015
- Happy, Sad. Funny. Philosophical R U · 2013
Albums
- 2011
- 1974
Singles & EPs
Appears On
- Alton Purnell & Keith Smith
About Dave Evans
The British guitarist Dave Evans, a real dazzler of a fingerpicker, has been recording since the early '70s. His first entirely instrumental album was released in 1974. Entitled Sad Pig Dance, it might have attracted only farmers and policemen's ball attendees, but nonetheless managed to do a great deal to set up Evans' reputation in a somewhat crowded genre. This player's compositions, particularly his harmonic frameworks, are quite different than better-known players such as John Renbourn or Bert Jansch; he sometimes sounds as if he is playing all of their guitars at once. What he is actually playing is a guitar he built himself, so any and all compliments for this unmistakably cavernous sound should go to Evans himself. His great instrumental talents -- including techniques involving alternate tunings and percussion-like sound effects -- have continued to be an obsession among guitarists from the new age crowd to free improv noise guitar deviates; this fact tends to overshadow Evans' work as a singer/songwriter. It was in this mode that he first presented himself to the listening public on the 1971 album entitled The Words in Between. It has been correctly pointed out by several critics that those were the days when a songwriter armed with a guitar was expected to really be able to play, not just to be a strum and humbum. It was Evans' picking, not his singing, that attracted fellow guitarist and record label manager Stefan Grossman who, in the late '70s, began documenting a variety of guitarists including Evans on the Kicking Mule label. Most of Evans' best music from the '70s has been reissued. ~ Eugene Chadbourne
- HOMETOWN
- Bangor, Wales
- BORN
- 1940
- GENRE
- Singer/Songwriter