Dave Evans

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 Evanses, 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...