Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks

Throughout his decades-long career, Dan Hicks stood as you of contemporary music’s true eccentrics. While steeped in folk, his acoustic audio understood few musical limitations. He drew on nation, call-and-response vocals, jazz phrasing, no little bit of humor to make a special, albeit sporadic, body of function that gained him a dedicated cult pursuing. Hicks was created Dec 9, 1941, to some military family after that surviving in Arkansas, and was raised in California, where he was a drummer in several high-school rings. He attended university in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, where he turned to acoustic guitar and started playing folk music. He came back towards the drums, nevertheless, when he became a member of the Charlatans, among the Bay City’s initial psychedelic bands. Even though Charlatans had been short-lived — they released only one one during their life — they demonstrated influential through the entire SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA musical community and had been among the initial acts to try out the legendary Family members Dog. Hicks acquired produced the acoustic group Dan Hicks & His Sizzling hot Licks in 1968 as an opener for the Charlatans, but shortly the new music group became his principal task. After adding a set of female support vocalists — “the Lickettes” — the group released its debut LP, Primary Recordings, in 1969. Following a couple of 1971 information, Where’s the amount of money? and Dazzling It Full, they released 1973’s Last Teach to Hicksville, which became the Sizzling hot Licks’ most effective album yet. On the peak from the group’s reputation, nevertheless, Hicks dissolved the music group and didn’t resurface until 1978, launching the single LP IT JUST HAPPENED One Bite, the soundtrack for an uncompleted feature by animator Ralph Bakshi. Then phased in and from the music sector for greater than a 10 years and didn’t issue another main documenting until 1994’s Shootin’ Right, a live documenting cut with a fresh music group, the Acoustic Warriors. In 2000, over 2 decades following the group’s dissolution, Hicks re-formed the Sizzling hot Licks and released Beatin’ heat. Alive and Lickin’ appeared a year afterwards and, after another hiatus (this time around for eight years), in March of 2009 he resurfaced with Tangled Stories. This year 2010 Hicks brought his jazzy, hip love of life to keep on the vacation period with Crazy for Xmas, released by Surfdog Information. Dan Hicks passed away on Feb 6, 2016 at his house in Mill Valley, California; he was 74 yrs . old.