30 Years Old

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BIOGRAPHY

Derek Evans may be the guy hanging out on his own in the bar, but he’s the one you’d most likely want to talk to. Behind his disarming eyes and a smile that suggests something’s constantly amusing him lie thoughts and observations which will summarize every interaction taking place around you, to the point where you’ll probably want to buy him a drink and laugh about the situation all night long. He could also be the guy in the coffee house pretending to read a self-help book, the guy snoozing in the shade under a tipped hat or the guy hanging back on the street corner as everyone else busies themselves with their lives. No matter the scenario, Derek Evans is that guy; the guy whose always watching. With the wise voice of a social commentator and an acoustic guitar style which summons the ghosts of our most well-known troubadour’s, Derek Evans will draw you in to his captivating live performances with original songwriting and a wit as dry as the Martini he’d like you to buy him.


www.myspace.com/derekevansmusic

LEVEL

professional

GENRES

Folk, Singer/Songwriter

Contact

Booking: d.e.r.booking@gmail.com

INSTRUMENTS

banjo / acoustic guitar / mandolin / vocals

DAY JOB

Touring Musician

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing online
in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a publishing deal

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
for myself

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody

experience >

SONG PLACEMENTS

Movie: Shoots & Ladders. Two songs from "The Telephone EP"

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,