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An impressionistic documentary portrait, The Man Who Loved Couch Dancing was shot when its subject, longtime Memphis rock-and-roller Monsieur Jeffrey Evans, was in his bushy-bearded, gone-daddy-gone guru phase.
I started rock and roll in 1892, now just me and Jerry Lee are the only ones left, deadpans Evans, looking like a rocked-out Walt Whitman or a Maharishi whod rather jam with John Lennon on Yer Blues than hit on Mia Farrow in an ashram.
Conceived and directed by local musician Ron Franklin, photographed by Inge Broere and edited by Memphis Digital Arts Co-operative co-founder Brandon Hutchinson, the 51-minute The Man Who Loved Couch Dancing makes its public debut tonight during Gonerfest 4, sponsored by Goner Records .
The screening takes place at 6 p.m. at the MeDiA Co-op theater at First Congregational Church, 1000 S. Cooper. Admission is $5.
Named for a 1991 album by the Gibson Bros., one of Evans many bands (others include 68 Comeback and the C.C. Riders),...