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  Dan Hicks - Music Downloads - Online
Hicks was born December 9, 1941, to a military family then living in Arkansas, and grew up in California, where he was a drummer in a number of high-school bands.
Hicks had formed the acoustic group Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks in 1968 as an opener for the Charlatans, but soon the new band became his primary project.
At the peak of the group's popularity, however, Hicks dissolved the band and did not resurface until 1978, releasing the solo LP It Happened One Bite, the soundtrack to an uncompleted feature by animator Ralph Bakshi.
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 Biography
Dan Hicks was born December 9, 1941 in Little Rock, Arkansas, the son of a career military man. The family moved to California when Dan was about five, eventually settling in what was then the small city of Santa Rosa, some 50 miles north of San Francisco.
In the spring of 1965, Dan became the drummer for a nascent San Francisco folk-rock group called The Charlatans, who at that time were more of a concept than an actual working band.
Today, Dan tours worldwide with an updated version of the Hot Licks, and occasionally gigs at various jazz venues in the San Francisco Bay Area as a vocalist, with Bayside Jazz.
www.danhicks.net /bio.htm   (1118 words)

  
 DrP Dan Hicks
Hicks’ voice – velvet swoops from falsettos to deep bass, impeccable timing, total control – makes him a pleasure just to listen to as a singer, and he sang a broad range of songs, ranging from many of his own to a Jon Hendricks jazz ballad.
Hicks was in good form between songs, too -- but at first too subtle for the lighting guy, whom he requested in past tense and third person to turn down one pink light that spotlighted him.
Hicks was a product of the same time and place (as well as many of the same country-folk influences) which produced the Grateful Dead but he made music at right angles to theirs, and yet wholly compatible with theirs.
www.holeintheweb.com /drp/drpdanhicks.htm   (1275 words)

  
 Metroactive Music | Dan Hicks
The now-defunct dance hall served as the summer lair of the Charlatans, a San Francisco folk-rock band (Hicks, Mike Wilhelm of the Flaming Groovies, and Boz Scaggs were among its members) with a taste for turn-of-the-century gambler chic and potent hallucinogens--and a penchant for packing sidearms onstage.
Originally, Hicks had planned the event as a tongue-in-cheek self-tribute, envisioning that he would be sequestered onstage in an easy chair and looking pleased with himself while those fellow musicians who had played such a big part in his career performed for him.
Tickets for Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks second annual Holidaze in Hicksville concert are $35 (all ages).
www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/12.04.03/hicks-0349.html   (791 words)

  
 Dan Hicks Tickets - Dan Hicks Concert Tour Schedule Show Ticket Broker
While attending high school, Hicks was bitten by a different bug, the radio bug and he began doing a small, regular radio spot before embarking on a degree in broadcasting in college.
The act was called Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks and the group showed so much promise that Hicks left The Charlatans to focus on the Licks.
Hicks later embarked on a solo career and only went back to working with a group in 1980 when he toured with a band called the Acoustic Warriors.
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 AP Wire | 11/29/2006 | Celebrity birthdays
Singer Southside Johnny Lyon of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes is 58.
Bluegrass singer Bobby Osborne of the Osborne Brothers is 75.
Singer Nicole Appleton of All Saints is 31.
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 oshermarinjcc
Over 30 years after establishing himself as a bona fide American original, Hicks finds himself in the middle of an undeniable second burst of celebrity, powered in part by a recent, critically-acclaimed comeback album, Beatin' the Heat (Surfdog), said to be a harkening back to his heyday with the Hot Licks.
Hicks inhabited the song, with Bell's guitar matching - and layering - Sid Page's infamous violin solo (from the original recording), note for note, followed by Godshaux going him one better with an almost Mideastern-flavored violin solo, so discordant and creepy it literally made flesh crawl.
Dan's guitar solo during "I Scare Myself", and his Bob Dylan "tribute" during "Peach Pickin' Time In Georgia" were very much enjoyed by the crowd.
www.danhicks.net /OsherMarinJCC.htm   (1788 words)

  
 Stuart's Opera House's 125th Anniversary Celebration featuring DAN HICKS & The Hot Licks :: Stuart's Opera House
Dan had other ideas about the kind of music he wanted to make, and began putting together an acoustic combo which included two female backup singers, who were dubbed "The Lickettes".
Dan signed with Surfdog Records in 1998, and together they produced "Beatin' The Heat", Dan's first studio opus since 1978.
Hicks continue to delight his longtime fans, he has also earned the attention of a whole new generation of music lovers.
www.stuartsoperahouse.org /index.php?item=54   (851 words)

  
 Something Like a Comeback / Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks put out a trademark CD after being far from the spotlight for ...
Hicks was joined on his new album, ``Beatin' the Heat,'' by Tom Waits, Bette Midler, Elvis Costello, Brian Setzer and Rickie Lee Jones (she plays a concert next weekend with Hicks at Oakland's Paramount Theatre).
Hicks took the drum chair in the group, which kick-started the whole '60s acid- rock scene during a summer 1965 engagement at the Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City, Nev. When the Charlatans headlined San Francisco's first acid-rock dance-concert that fall at the Longshoremen's Hall, the opening act was the Jefferson Airplane.
Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks started playing around San Francisco in 1968, a refreshing change from the heavy blues and loud electric guitars of the day.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/09/17/PK24389.DTL   (1246 words)

  
 LEAH GARCHIK -- Ululations From a Yodelologist (Sing This Headline) / Now, it's not brain surgery, but it does take a ...
Our tutor's credentials were impressive: He was Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks in the '70s; his music has been recorded by Bette Midler, Asleep at the Wheel and Thomas Dolby; he's had five national best- selling albums; nowadays, when he appears he's Dan Hicks and the Acoustic Warriors.
Dan Hicks is a man who's used to performing, to interacting with his audience.
I'm indebted to Dan Hicks for a lesson well-given, and if not well- executed, then particularly well- learned: Many things worth doing are worth doing well, but other things are worth doing even if you stink.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1997/10/05/SC43406.DTL&type=printable   (1138 words)

  
 John Orr reviews Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks DVD
People Hicks played with in high school, back in the 1950s, in addition to members of all of Hicks bands since then, including the Charlatans, and current and former Hot Licks.
On ''I Scare Myself'' at the Hicks show, Page started with a few little licks and musical references, then dived deep with slides, slurs and hammers into a stunning solo that was even more impressive than what he recorded with Hicks on the album ''Striking It Rich'' back in 1972.
Hicks calls out everyone's name at some point during the show, but it's hard to keep track, and something in the credits or the enclosed booklet would have helped.
triviana.com /film/dfilm/danhicks.htm   (944 words)

  
 A Conversation with Dan Hicks
But I was completely enchanted by the middle act, a group called Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks.
Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks (1969), Where's the Money (1971), Striking It Rich (1972), and Last Train to Hicksville (1973) are a consistent string of fabulous recordings, and astonishingly different from everything else that was happening in music at the time.
It's no wonder Dan Hicks ended up on the cover of Rolling Stone twice, because there's never been anyone like him, even in the more than 25 years since those first records were made.
www.puremusic.com /hicks.html   (500 words)

  
 Dan Hicks still gets in his hot jazz-folk licks
Hicks and the Licks cut three albums for the Blue Thumb label in the early 1970s, presenting a sleek and hip acoustic sound unlike anything coming out of San Francisco in preceding years.
He initially was a drummer with the group, but Hicks and the Charlatans soon found themselves on Fillmore West bills with the Dead and the Airplane.
Hicks left the Charlatans, which had yet to release an album, in 1968 and devoted his full energy to the Hot Licks.
www.gotorenotahoe.com /news/stories/html/2005/04/06/1653.php   (669 words)

  
 Dan Hicks (singer)
Dan Hicks (born December 9, 1941) is a musician whose style blends elements of folk and jazz (and bits of other genres, too).
His music is also infused with a good dose of humor (e.g., one of his most popular songs: "How can I miss you when you won't go away").
Hicks was in the San Francisco band The Charlatans, but is perhaps best known for his work with "Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks" which existed from sometime in the mid-1960s until 1973, culminating in the album Last Train to Hicksville.
www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Dan_Hicks_(singer)   (142 words)

  
 Dan Hicks' Holidaze in Hicksville
Dan Hicks is, of course, one of the greats of music, an amazing songwriter and performer who has melded swing music and...
Funny thing, though -- Dan Hicks was the first person to walk on the stage.
I turned and was surprised to see that it was Dan Hicks and not some manager or promoter.
www.triviana.com /music/hickdaze.htm   (667 words)

  
 Bread & Roses - Dan Hicks at Delancey
Since the early 1960's, singer-songwriter Dan Hicks has deftly blended elements of swing, jazz, folk and country music.
Dan's irresistible sense of rhythm, hip lyrical styling, laid-back vocalizing and infamous on-stage wit make most who listen fans for life and this evening
His band for the Delancey Street show included: Dan on lead vocal and rhythm guitar; Linda Groves and Susan Rabin on background vocals; Corky Rodrigues on string bass; Dave Bell on lead guitar and Richard Chon on violin.
www.breadandroses.org /ds_danHicks04.shtml   (206 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle Music: Fast Train to Hicksville: A Tip O' the Hat to Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
Dan Hicks grew up as a jazz drummer in the Bay Area, a most auspicious place to be in the Sixties.
Hicks says he found "two chick singers and a jazz milieu" to play as the newly formed Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks.
Hicks' witty lyrics were as wise as they were whimsical, and his deadpan vocals droll and devastating.
www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:82340   (1523 words)

  
 SearchCeleb.com - Hicks, Dan
Berkshireweb.com - Dan Hicks on the comeback trail, article by Seth Rogovoy.
Hicks, Dan - News and information about this folk singer songwriter.
Return to Hicksville - Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks pick up where they left off more than 20 years ago.
www.searchceleb.com /celebrity/Arts/Music/Bands_and_Artists/H/Hicks,_Dan   (160 words)

  
 Artistopia Music - Dan Hicks Fanfare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Dan Hicks (music)' manner of speaking is slow and droll, somewhat like his brand of music.
Dan Hicks (born December 9, 1941) is a musician whose style blends elements of folk and jazz (and...
The Austin Chronicle : User Comments - Never mind it was the move that brought her to Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, back then being a hippie on the scene was everything -- everything Dan Hicks' music wasn't.
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 Dan Hicks : Hey Good Lookin' - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Dan Hicks' involvement with the project began in 1974, shortly after the dissolution of his Hot Licks.
His then record company, Warner Bros., decided that since Hey, Good Lookin' had yet to be scheduled for release, they would revisit the recordings for a Dan Hicks solo album -- which was humorously titled It Happened One Bite.
As the music was cinematic in nature and origin, Hicks chose the title as a send-up of the 1934 Frank Capra film It Happened One Night.
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 RelishNow | Celebrity Birthdays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Singer Jessica Cleaves of Friends of Distinction is 57.
Guitarist Jeff -"Skunk" Baxter (the Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan) is 57.
Singer Joyce Vincent-Wilson of Tony Orlando and Dawn is 59.
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 AT&T Worldnet Service - Directory
Dan Hicks and his acoustic warriors in concert.
Dan Hicks on the comeback trail, article by Seth Rogovoy.
Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks pick up where they left off more than 20 years ago.
www.att.net /cgi-bin/webdrill?catkey=gwd/Top/Arts/Music/Bands_and_Artists/H/Hicks,_Dan   (228 words)

  
 NIPP: Artists: Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks
American singer-songwriter Dan Hicks has been creating his own musical legend since the early 1960s.
Although firmly rooted in the American Folk Music tradition, Dan deftly blends elements of Swing, Jazz, and Country to create his unique sound, which he sometimes calls Folk Jazz.
Dan’s irresistible sense of rhythm, hip lyrical stylings, laid-back vocalizing, and infamous on-stage wit make most who listen fans for life.
www.nipp.com /artists/detail/dan-hicks-and-the-hot-licks   (107 words)

  
 Dan Hicks - AOL Music
Dan's unique way with rhythm and words has given us...
Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks - featuring an all-star cast of friends DVD/CD package 2003.
Download, listen and watch Dan Hicks music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
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 Dan Hicks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dan Hicks (singer) (born 1941), singer and musician
Dan Hicks (politician), former North York school Trustee
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same human name.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dan_Hicks   (80 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Beatin' the Heat: Music: Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Intentionally or not, Hicks has steered clear of the swing revival movement, opting to continue making his own brilliant brand of eclectic, jazz-inflected pop music.
I never heard of Dan Hicks until I started listening to Radio Margaritaville, but "Barstool Boogie" caught my ear...from his latest album (Selected Shorts) and was so good, that I just had to have more.
A friend of mine used to break out his Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks LPs during our partying days in the 70s and 80s...I had never heard of the group, but always enjoyed the music, the lyrics, and the fun...at least I think I did.
www.amazon.com /Beatin-Heat-Dan-Hicks-Licks/dp/B00004WJ8B   (1127 words)

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