David Lyle Evans

A somewhat obscure figure in country & traditional western, David Evans played bass in the Tx Troubadours in the middle-’70s. For anybody who doesn’t pay attention to nation, that was the back-up group for Ernest Tubb. Performers of Tubb’s stature frequently put an integral bandmember in the positioning of bandleader to avoid head aches of both musical and personal range; Evans seems to have stuffed this part for Tubb while also offering the brand bumpety-bump bass lines that place the honky in honky-tonk. Tubb’s longtime record label, MCA, was still documenting the person during this past due stage of his profession, the tradition of youngsters having nearly totally conquered the Nashville picture throughout that period. The chronologically-titled ’75 features Evans, but big spenders should search for Another Tale, a German Carry Family box arranged that at six discs better possess another tale, and another, and another. Another exemplory case of a nation sideman-cum-bandleader can be pianist Earl Poole Ball, who went the Johnny Money band for a long time.