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Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
12+ albums
rockjazzwestern swingswinggypsy jazz
about
Singer-songwriter Dan Hicks (born December 9, 1941; died February 6, 2016) was truly an American original. 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. Hicks was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on December 9, 1941. His father, Ivan L. Hicks (married to the former Evelyn Kehl), was a career military man. At age five, an only child, Hicks moved with his family to California, eventually settling north of San Francisco in Santa Rosa, where he was a drummer in grade school and played the snare drum in his school marching band. At 14, he was performing with area dance bands. While in high school, he had a rotating spot on Time Out for Teens, a daily 15-minute local radio program, and he went on to study broadcasting at San Francisco State College during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Taking up the guitar in 1959, he became part of the San Francisco folk music scene, performing at local coffeehouses. Hicks joined the San Francisco band The Charlatans in 1965 as drummer. In 1967, Hicks formed Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks with violinist David LaFlamme. LaFlamme left to form It's a Beautiful Day, and was quickly replaced by jazz violinist "Symphony" Sid Page. Vocalists Sherry Snow and Christine Gancher, guitarist Jon Weber, and bassist Jaime Leopold filled out the band, unusual in having no drummer. T
top songs
albums
Original Recordings
The Most Of Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
Striking It Rich
Beatin' The Heat
Last Train To Hicksville . . . The Home Of Happy Feet
Where's The Money
Last Train to Hicksville
Selected Shorts
Where's the Money?
Crazy for Christmas
The Blue Thumb Years 1971-1973
Greatest Licks - I Feel Like Singin'