Dreaming of the past
Jacob Speake
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AllMusic
2001
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Richie Unterberger
2001
"British contemporary folk singer/songwriter Dave Evans' debut album was, in keeping with much of the genre at the beginning of the 1970s, a reserved and subdued affair. Evans' guitar work on this record was excellent: tasteful, virtuosic, and picked with a rich tone and unusual tunings, on a guitar of his own making. But his slightly melancholic songs about everyday events and people were ordinary, and his thin voice lacked the character of a number of acoustic British folk singer/songwriting peers, like Bert Jansch to use the most obvious example. The addition of Adrienne Webber on some harmony vocals adds some color".
fRoots
Autumn 2018
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Chris Frederick
Autumn 2018
"Simply, Evans was unlike anyone else: let alone having made his own gorgeous-sounding guitar, his style didn't emulate the blues or baroque stylings prevalent, but had unlikely twists and turns, echoed in his personal tunings: brief big-band-style chords could resolve into limpid picking, for example, and the guitar always supported and framed the vocals, which themselves were refreshingly different, both in delivery and subject matter".